(01 Sep 2022, 8:17 pm)streetdeckfan wrote LOL, you should try stand up!

So it'll be a good 6 months before anything is done about it!

6 months?! Bold of you to assume it will be as little time as that, took them years to fix the side desti on Pulsar 1515.

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Tbf they have invested in Darlington's fleet a fair bit over the years, services 1/5/5A/X1 in particular:

2009: Pulsar's on 5/5A at Bishop Auckland depot, at the time the 5/5A ran the Bishop to Durham stretch of what we now again know as the 6 continuing to Darlington twice hourly (also was some interworking with the 46 at the time). Also E400's for the 1/1B.

2013: Pulsar's 1506-11 for 1/5/5A working alongside existing examples.

2015: StreetLite's 1590-94 for the MAX X1.

2018: StreetLite's 1602-14 initially for 1/5/5A/12/19 but 12/19 later removed from cycle so all *should* be on 1/5/5A/X1 now but allocations are somewhat sporadic.

Also 2013 saw the gas buses introduced plus the Sapphire 7 Pulsar's 1513-1523 before some were replaced by E400s in 2015.

Belmont is the depot that could really do with the investment now South of the Tyne, seems to be a lot of cancellations on the X46 some of which are caused by breakdowns expecially with them aging ALX400 bodied B7TL's.