Arriva North East

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RE: Arriva North East

(09/09/2012 20:49)Metroline1511 Wrote:  Thank you for preparing me that it would probably be impossible to ride a coach on route X66 next Easter Sunday. If they are moving to Jesmond, do you know what is likely to replace them on route X66?

It is interesting to note that route 75 is Solo on Sundays, as I rode an ex-London 10.7m Dart on it in July.

I noticed Darlington with a large allocation of Solos now, and rode 11-reg 2868 in July. It is likely to be rareish to have pure Solos (as against Solo SRs) with 2009 moquette. It seems that some ex-Stagecaoch Darts have been replaced by Solos.

No idea what will replace them on the X66.

The 75/76 during the week was originally supposed to be Olympians (PVR 3 and Darlington had 3 Olympians). It's now supposed to be the Ikraus 4077-9 (once they are all there).

Not exactly rare - Arriva North East has the 8 Solos at Darlington (2862-9), the 10 Durham P&R ones (2852-61) and the 5 61-reg NexusBus livered ones (2601-3, 2870/1) then there's the ones in the Midlands. And yes, the 11 reg Solos replaced a few of the ex-Stagecoach Darts.