(13 Jun 2014, 5:28 pm)Roland Pratt wrote I was on a (hybrid) 308 on Wednesday. He was a FEW minutes late into Blyth and as it turned right into the bus station an inspector waved to him and spoke to him. Another bus was ready to depart the stand. Anyway, the hybrid went out on I think it was the X4. Later the same thing happened, so it looks like they are more bothered about the services running to time than the right allocation of vwhicles (I can see the argument both ways).

Really i cant see the point of branding routes if the buses are going to appear off route all the time. Services like Arriva Sapphires 7 seems to be coping well with only 2 odd workings reported on here since they entered service which shows that Darlington are using them as a last resort if nothing else can be found to cover. Why Blyth cant do that i dont know. Seems to be the Arriva version of Riverside