(06 Oct 2023, 9:20 pm)solsburian wrote Regardless of what comes up here, new or old, the Solos are well past it regardless. I am sort of seeing any work on 2601-03 as an example of Arriva simply doing stuff based on the book value of the vehicle, which seems to have lead to the same insanity of refurbishing some of the V-DNL Darts, and not dumping the high-floor ALX100/Varios at Hexham when they swapped with GNE.

Aye totally agreed, they should've never turned up here to be honest. Darlington needs new buses on easy town work because the buses are unreliable. That's fine then send them to a suburban route with multiple sections of 60 mph running.

It'll be interesting to see how they cope going flat out from Bedlington Station down the Three Horse Shoes.

Speaking of those awful Vario's - mind they did have some character, they came out of a field so it pretty much sums how much demand they had.