(24 Aug 2013, 1:22 pm)CatsFast101 wrote Well if you look at vehicles are needed what each routes. There's 11 Solars coming free and 13 Versas possibly 1 more if including the centenary Versa.
If 5 Solars go to the 28.
4 Solars to the X7.
5 Versas (from drifter) to 61.
5 Versa's (from simplicity) to 39.
4 Versa's (3 Simplicity, 1 Centenary) to the 34.
Then there's 2 Solars to go Northern and if they want to keep the centenary livery, one could go into that.
Since when are the "SimpliCity" branded Versas allocated to the 42 'free'?
I'm happy with 5x ex-"MetroLINK" Solars going to "The Waggonway", 4x ex-"MetroLINK" Solars going to "Wear Tees Xpress" and 2x ex-"MetroLINK" Solars going to "Northern".
I'm happy with 5x "Drifter" Versas going to the "Drifter" 61 when the 60 is upgraded to Streetlites.
I'm happy with 5x "SimpliCity" Versas going to the 39 when the 61 is upgraded to Versas, assuming the extra Park Lane to Doxford Park runs are dropped and no further timetable changes occur - which I'm not confident in.
Your numbers when it comes to the 34 baffle me. What happens to the other two "SimpliCity" branded Versas? 8319-29 gives 11 Versas (see here but also add 8319). You have accounted for 9.
Until further Solars are freed up (next year at the earliest), I can't see the "Lambton Worm" brand getting a massive upgrade. A temporary "Northern" Renown allocation and then upgrade to Solar when the vehicles are actually there for it to be upgraded, maybe.
I'd even go as far to say that the 34 could be allocated one B10BLE, and the two free "Northern" Solars above could join 4944 in providing the rest of the vehicles required on that service. Unless there is one more Solar in the fleet that is free, I definitely think it will go Northern.