Arriva North East

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RE: Arriva North East
Stockton's Streetlites (1550-59) entered service on Tuesday (1553 in Brotton on the last 5A on Tuesday) - however the day didn't go well. The first example out of the depot (1556 worked the 0540 5 from Easington - the earlier 0500 trip is worked by Redcar depot on the front of an X4 turn and as such goes Sapphire next week) developed door problems on Cargo Fleet Lane and the driver struggled onto North Ormesby before ringing in, and a reset was suggested however an issue with the hand break meant it wouldn't restart. Indeed, by the end of the day, 9 breakdowns had occurred (including 1556's) with 1554 being towed in from Carlin How. By today however, they'd reach a stage where all 10 were out - sadly it was short lived as 1553 keeps throwing up an emission fault.