(Yesterday, 4:26 pm)alexanderdennis0312933 wrote Couldn't tell exactly which one it was but there was an X20 gemini 3 smoking quite bad by Plawsworth Gate
Complete basketcase purchase by GNE, especially for the X9/X10 at the time! Should've been ZF Enviro 400 MMC's or Scania N250UD Enviro 400 MMC's purchased at the time. GNE were "too stubborn" to deviate from Volvo / WrightBus at the time! Who the hell thought it would be a good idea buying a 4-pot heap of s***e for tearing up and down the A19 at 60MPH!
Quite ironic that the vehicles they replaced.....some of them are still hanging on being ragged up and down around Derwentside! Even some of Arriva Northumbria's 12-15 year old VDL Gemini 2's are in better shape than GNE's B5TL's and majority of StreetWrecks!