(02 Jan 2014, 9:33 pm)Davey Bowyer wrote Yes, but back in December, I got on the one that leaves Blyth at 05:05 in the morning and it was a VDL DB300 and running 5 minutes late.

Most likely due to the allocated vehicle not starting up? Driver picks a different vehicle, and tries to make up the delay caused by his shoddy bus not starting.