(20 Jul 2025, 8:44 pm)PH - BQA wrote 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.

Must admit, always thought they were all Blyth. Hold my hands up on those 2.

The Omnicities were the 43 and 49 if I'm right? Need confirmation on that though, don't believe they were the X1/X2.

Depends if they win the contract in 2028 though, who knows by then though - no doubt be some new vehicles on the market and some solution for the issue of electric buses on longer routes by then.