(06 Jan 2021, 2:44 pm)Andreos1 wrote The Solars used on the X20/X50 transferred to the 'swift' version of the 20, c2006.
Was it the 20X? X20? (there's been that many versions of the fast bus between Sunderland and Durham).
Whatever it was, they saw fit to get rid of the X20/X50 and utilise the vehicles in another guise.
It would be interesting to see if the X50 ever had a negative effect on the 50.
I can't see too many people chosing the latter, if the quicker version was due in and it took them wherever they needed to be.
I can't see there being too much demand for both services then, never-mind now, unless they serve the likes of Nissan, Waterview Park AND the manufacturing park.
Merely anecdotally from some of the drivers who were on the X20/X50 rota in it's prime, as it was well before I ever worked there, they claim that it all went down hill after the X50 service went to Chester-le-Street, and when based at Deptford the drivers were cashing in hundreds more than we take on an average shift now just on those services. No idea of the reality of it though.