(20 Jul 2025, 8:32 pm)Storx wrote Ex Blyth the DB300's. Here's a photo of https://www.flickr.com/photos/emdjt42/6892381637/ on the 308 when it was pretty much brand new. 

The Omnicities I'm sure we're the 43 aswell, but can't confirm 100% that one either but that was part of Operation Overdrive. 

Btw  don't think it'll get anything personally, there's enough 12/13 plates around and I have a feeling they'll do it until it's death in 2028 with the 7 or 22/23/24 getting the investment instead. There's also possibly Blyth's Pulsars aswell depending on what the electrics replace up here as I can't see the newer E400's going anywhere.

7626/7 were new to Durham and regularly appeared on the X1/2 from new, and were refurbished for the transition to X12. 

So you're saying the Omnicities were allocated to the 43 and X1/2 from new... So then the route has had new vehicles then hasn't it?  

Right, but then in 2028 there'll need to be replacements... That's only 3 years away, and the youngest Pulsars in the fleet will be 15 by then. The Blyth Pulsars are only a few months younger than the youngest X12 buses at present.