(13 Jan 2016, 8:31 pm)South Tyne Lad wrote Did the 6 really require any deckers? Not when ive ridden it, VDLs Suit it just right. Nor does the 24 ( Though haven't ridden the 24 enough to say )
I'm not a expert on Ashington but I believe there's 2 MAX Spare E400s with one supposedly allocated to the X14 and one Spare.
Them 3 E400s could have been allocated to the X20 with the remaining spare also allocated with 2 of the less reliable B7TLs 7412-15 batch to cover then the remaining B7TL can be sent wherever needed.
Too late now though as them E400s are now Sapphire.
Yes, consider the deckers on the 6 work school runs - hence why they are booked for deckers. Hence 7519-21 moving to Durham to work them turns. Otherwise either Stockton or Darlington would have had to lose out on 3 Pulsars as an additional 3 would have to have been refurbished in addition to 1479/1524-33 and the timetable and running boards reworked to move the effected school work (865 is certainly one of them, one of our Arriva insiders will be able to answer what routes) which of course may have saw Durham's PVR increase anyway to cover the additional separate school boards.