(Yesterday, 4:26 pm)Kuyoyo wrote Funnily enough, because that is what the board it’s allocated to does - 43/44/45 until 1400 then an X9 to Blyth, X7 to Newcastle, X11 back to Blyth, X8 back to Newcastle then a 45 to Dinnington returning as a 44 then back to Blyth as an X8 to finish. Short of having a major rewrite of the boards at this short notice, you’ll probably see them on other routes that are on 43 boards until the next rota change up there.

You do realise these have been in the pipeline for years don't you? The boards should have been ready to go, it's not as if the buses snuck up on them. 

The board shenanigans aside, there are still multiple boards which exclusively operate the 43/44/45 (check 1578, 7522, 7524 as three I found within 30 seconds) . Given they pushed out one token bus, it really wouldn't have been hard to get it onto one of the boards that do the routes which:

A) The funding was awarded for.
B) All publicity has been focused around. 

Also, I believe the bus was swapped between boards on arrival at Blyth today - it should have gone back to Newcastle as an X9 (i.e what 1390 did last Monday, 1493 last Tuesday, and 1501 last Thursday), and therefore not seeing a 43/44/45 again for the rest of the day.