(06 Oct 2023, 9:26 pm)Storx wrote 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.

Darlo definitely did need new busses, but robbing Peter to pay Paul is not the answer. 

I am hoping the service changes will force them to act tbh, they deserve it.

I imagine the van conversions were Cheap to run, but they cheap with a capital 'C", especially as they had MPDs on the same services etc.