(04 Oct 2013, 9:01 pm)mattdw92 wrote Omnicity Angels were 2007. Probably less technical tests and the demand back then wasn't there, so down grading from decker was plausible.
It was an unmitigated disaster, which meant the Tridents were pulled off the Coaster and repainted to rescue things, which still didn't really work so they had a stroke of genius and bought the Vykings that were hardly a raging success. I'm sure at the time that the Omnis were getting pulled off the late Peter Huntley freely admitted they should never have been purchased for the route...
And back even in 2007, the loading data would have been available to GNE if they had wanted to look at it - maybe not as easily accessible, but they clearly would have had a means of monitoring loadings.