06 Apr 2023, 1:36 pm
#1304
(05 Apr 2023, 11:43 pm)glen I think stagecoach Stockton should get new buses next year to replace old buses want come from Newcastle depots or good second hand buses.
the thing is glen, Stockton get looked after, Newcastle and Sunderland is where the profit is made and where services are run hardest, if you look back Newcastle barely got any of the newer vehicles because the engineering staff managed to keep older vehicles on the road,
a few examples
the 09 E300s went to Stockton brand new i believe,
the 2011 E300s went to shields(I believe, please correct if wrong?)
obviously the 2013/2014 gas buses went to Sunderland which displaced a handful of T reg ALX300s from Sunderland and the 04 ALX300s came to slatyford displacing more T reg ALX300s (T47-BNL batch if i remember correctly, i hope so as I finished the preparation for transfer) to Stockton
the 2014 E300s went to Stockton from what i remember displacing the worst of the T/V reg ALX300 MK1s to Lincolnshire.
the 2015 E300s went to Stockton and helped displace the remainder of MK1 ALX300s within the SNE fleet, the early 220xx batch of ALX300s came up to Newcastle and i think that was when 22480 and the last 2 V reg (22673,22675 if i remember right) got disposed of
at some point the 5 2008 E300s from Scotland turned up as replacements for the 2005 E300s for the 100 metrocenter service which were absolutely knackered and took a lot of time and effort to get into service.
again the (7? am I right?) kinetics turned up to replace some of the early ALX300s and again were trashed.
the 2016 E200 MMCs went to slatyford replacing the kinetics and some early 2003 ALX300s
2019 E200 MMCs went to Stockton and again were replacing early 2003 ALX300s.
if it wasn't for the CAZ Newcastle would still be running the ALXs which i don't mind, there are a few examples showing their age but in the most part they are still decent runners for being nearly 20 years old.
Sunderland is meant to be getting new electric buses at some point to replace some of the gas buses and if Stockton is next in line, the whole cycle would be repeated of Newcastle getting whatever was to hand
