(30 Aug 2022, 11:34 am)Arriva7446 wrote I agree that the Pulsars are much better than Omnicities, especially for a long and demanding route like the 685. 

The problem with vibrations from the rear used to be very common on Pulsars which is annoying. All of the Pulsars I have been on recently though have not done this, and the worst offenders for this problem all seem to have had it fixed (possibly at the same time they were upgraded to euro 6). Disappointing if there is still some that have this issue, maybe the ex merseyside ones as I have not been on all of them. 

It will be interesting to see allocations on the 685 once Jesmond depot closes. I imagine most of their pulsars will transfer away and they will then have a smaller selection to allocate to the 685 so there will be the same ones appearing daily. It will be interesting how they do when that happens.

It was a MX61 on Monday 15th August operating the 14.15 departure from Carlisle.

Nice acceptable bus apart from the vibrations when stationary.

And the service offering is not Sapphire.  I think it is luck if a Sapphire Pulsar gets allocated for the day.

EDIT - just checked bustimes and today we have 1513 N63VRG (I see this one quite a lot) which is Sapphire and 1537 MX61AVK and 1541 MX61AVO (seems to be a regular on the route). bus times was also showing 1512 NL63VRF on 21 August and 1539 MX61AVM on 24 August