(02 Jan 2023, 8:03 am)Rob44 wrote I was sitting on the 29 on the way to the match and was on a single decker street lite ? i think..... as you guess I'm not really into what all the buses are called.... but what i was thinking was this is the same make of bus that i got on the 44 to hazlertigg..... and i though i cant reallt think of any other buses out there at the minute within Northumberland and tyne and wear where 2 of the main companies have bought the same vehicle....

I haven't seen any street decks?? at arriva or SCNE

I dont think SCNE and although I could be wrong have any single decker pulsars??

Also going back in time  busways never bought any DAF optares the Northumbria ( 251,2,3,4,5,6,78) and Go ahaead did but they didnt buy the single deckers scanias that busway bought for the 100 to metro Centre?

And going back further united and northern both bough Leyland vr's but the TWPTE ( busways) didn't??

The United and Northern VR, National, Olympian thing will have been down to the restrictions National had at the time and the deals they had with the nationalised Bristol and Leyland manufacturers. 
It was the same pretty much across the country. 
Not sure why TWPTE bought Alexander bodied Olympians over the ECW that the other two had mind. 

However, I agree with the differences more recently.
It's noticeable that elsewhere Arriva have had Versas and Stagecoach have had Loylnes and Excels for example.

Is the E200MMC and the E400 variants the first common vehicle that all 3 local ops have had at the same time?