(01 Jul 2014, 8:55 pm)JoshP wrote Originally there were going to be 9 not 5 streelites for Darlington but these have been cancelled in favour of Gemini 2's for the X93. I'm only going off what others have stated before on this threadunless that's now changed again of course?
I think it's likely these are the ones for the X1 brought forward from next year...
(01 Jul 2014, 6:51 pm)mb134 wrote With one of "Sapphires" things being to do with the "well presented, customer focused drivers" does this mean that there is a special selection of drivers from each depot that operate a Sapphire route, chosen to drive on it? If so how do they choose?
Yes there is a specialist rota at each depot who will be getting a Sapphire route. The number chosen depends on the route itself - for example at Stockton ours is PVR 10 so we have 28 drivers chosen after going through a selection process. All Sapphire drivers get additional customer training too.