Arriva North East

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RE: Arriva North East
I made it to Cleveland last weekend as planned. In a change of plan, I travelled to/from Darlington, thus was able to ride an EcoCity there, and concentrated entirely on this area. I have thus postponed my DalesBus Richmond-Lancaster ride, probably until next year to coincide with Sapphire Pulsar 2s on route 7. Anyway, my itins were as follows:

Saturday:

11 Red Lane and back - EcoCity 4810
X66 Stockton - Scania OmniCity 4659
17a Middlesbrough - Cadet 1906
5 Guisborough - leather-seated Scania OmniCity 4662 (Hoorah!)
81 Redcar - Scania OmniCity 4655
X4 Middlesbrough - Temsa Avanue 4716
63 Premier Inn, Marton Way - Pulsar 2 1434

Sunday:

63 Redcar - Pulsar 2 1434 (It didn't park at the Hotel overnight!)
4a Saltburn - Temsa Avenue 4706
22a Middlesbrough - Pulsar 2 1430
X10 Peterlee - to be highlighted on the Go North East thread
21 Darlington - Solo 2864

It is intriguing that routes 4a and 22a not served by Arriva buses on Mon-Sat. I think route 21 might use larger buses on Mon-Sat does it? If so, this will have been another Sunday-only operation! I was surprised that there appeared to be no OmniCities out in Middlesbrough but there were some older Prestiges out.