(30 Mar 2015, 6:03 pm)mb134 wrote 16.08 (16.10) X21 Bedlington to Ashington ANE 7528
Now, I needed to get back to Morpeth and still hadn't achieved either of my targets (Streetlite or Omnicity), so I decided to have a ride to Ashington and pray the 35 to Morpeth was a green machine (not a clue where that came from!). 7528 turned up (all 14-reg Enviro's today, thank you Arriva!), and was quite busy. Sat upstairs and immediately plugged my phone in as it was running low, and was disappointed (but not surprised) to find that the plug next to my seat didn't work
It was a rather uneventful journey, the bus seemed alright, nothing majorly noticeable like 1493, and the fact it made up time signalled to me it was okay!
16.40 35 Ashington to Morpeth ANE 1579
FINALLY!! As I was standing at the bus stop, a DAF appeared at the lights and I sighed, even when actively trying to get a Streetlite I couldn't... I glanced up to find it sail past, it was on the 20! A few minutes later 1579 rolled around the corner. Firstly, it is quite bland inside, no advertisements, grey side panelling and a ghastly black screen at the front. However, it quickly accelerated, which shocked me, really didn't expect that! There was some rather worrying sounds, don't know if it was when it was changing gear,but it flew along the road to Pegswood. Was quite impressed with the thing, certainly was a lot better than I expected.
Overall a pretty good day, strangely enough a journey on an Enviro was my highlight, and I was quite surprised with the Gemini's lack of power (unless it was just the driver?). Thank you all for reading
You should have (but you shouldn't have to) asked and reminded the driver to turn them on, there is on switch clearly titled "POWER SOCKETS", of which they have to press it and then all the power sockets magically turn on, who would have thought of that? You should've told him to read (look at and comprehend the meaning of (written or printed matter) by interpreting the characters or symbols of which it is composed.) the notice that clearly states "Sapphire Buses" with photographs of the switches in the portacabin.
At least it wasn't 1581, they ruined it by placing an advert about a bra shop on the back
