(31 Aug 2026, 8:18 pm)PH - BQA wrote It absolutely occurred to me that a driver probably chose this bag of nails to go and "represent" a multi-national company, yes, which is my entire point. Zero oversight in the NE which allows vehicles like this to be missing that same bit of vinyl for over 12 years: https://flic.kr/p/jeY2iv versus https://flic.kr/p/dYhWDX. Old style logos on either side of it too.
Despite Arriva NEs refusal to paint half of the batch out of Cotswold Stone, ANW did manage to get a hefty number into Journey Mark which made their way up here - so surely one of those should have been taken.
Are you okay?
Bus has been like that for over a decade as per my previous post.
It might not be the smartest bus in the fleet but even someone like me who would be regarded as somewhat of a "casual" in this hobby knows that this batch of Pulsars have been absolute workhorses. I bang on about 1409 hut for several months, it was on a route local to me almost every single day, sometimes from sparrow fart to midnight and I ended up catching it often. It never skipped a beat, even on the steeper hills in Durham. The X12 has been run almost exclusively with pulsars until recently and that's one of the most reliable long distance routes to serve Durham.