(01 Sep 2022, 6:46 pm)Storx wrote Nah wouldn't say Renowns, as far as I'm aware there wasn't ever any in the Darlington or Sunderland areas much.Renown's were very much present in Sunderland including being officially allocated to the 8/78 & 9.
The only other two I'd say are Olympians and Streetlites aswell. The second are all over the place now pretty much; Percy Main, Jesmond, Deptford, Stockton, Redcar, Darlington, Riverside, Durham, Consett, and also been based at Hexham and Ashington for a bit. No doubt Jesmond's will be moving to Blyth aswell next month to tick off all the Arriva / GNE depots.
Arriva never really used the Renown's in County Durham having spent most of their life on Tyneside aside from a few that ended their lives at Stockton & Redcar, Renown's did grace the streets of Darlington occasionally when the OK1 ran and Arriva's 4514 spent about a week at Darlington before migrating to Yorkshire: https://flic.kr/p/CrFjfh
Aside from maybe scholars 865 at Belmont and 318S/323S at Whitby I can imagine StreetLite's have done everything South of the Tyne at least once with Arriva.