(31 Aug 2020, 10:41 am)tcts24 wrote All 5 Busways depots were running minibuses until around 15 years ago. Stockton and Darlington did run them but they'd largely gone by the turn of the century. Hartlepool briefly had ex London Merc's, but I don't think there were more than 4 there at any time and they were short lived.

Stockton had an allocation of Mercedes 709Ds until about 2004 when the last daytime run they were required for - the 630 (Middlesbrough to Stainton via Longlands, James Cook Hospital, Marton, Coulby Newham and Hemlington) passed to Leven Valley as the 430 (and survived until the company's closure as the eastern arm of the 18/19 circular having gone through various other changes) and them not being suitable for anything else at Stockton (the only other service that used minis still running at that time - the evening/Sunday Boroughbus 556 from Stockton to the Transporter - was converted to midibus using a low floor Dart until it passed to Compass Royston a year or so later).