Just a quick one about allocations. Jesmond are exactly the same as Blyth when it comes to allocating the streetlites. More than often I've seen the new streetlites (which are specifically for 306) on the 55, 54 and more recently I've been seeing them creep onto the 43 as well. It's just a bit strange that they can't keep the streetlites on the 306Belmont are currently still doing driver familiarization hence why one example is not being used on service 23 at the moment. I think a Pulsar was allocated to service U1 yesterday but was later replaced with 1576.
I think Jesmond Streetlite's are often on other services because the 306 runs on some some school contract where the Streetlite's are not suitable for that contract or something like that.