(23 Nov 2013, 11:53 am)Dan wrote What would you allocate B9s if you had a choice?I agree that it is the Durham to Newcastle sector that is busy on the X21. Citaros are a good fit for this route and will be capable of the average weekday loadings. From what I have seen in Chester le Street today with X21 deckers running full a solution might be a Saturday short run (Durham to Newcastle) X21 shoppers service from say 1000 to 1700. I will think about that one and come back on the service suggestions thread.
While I do think that the "Pronto" X21 can fill up a double decker quite easily, this tends to be between Newcastle and Durham, and I doubt many of these passengers are fare paying customers. There are also times of day when I think all the X21 can justify is a single decker.
I admit that Go North East do need to consider the total number of passengers when deciding to 'upgrade' a service, but I think it was a pretty big push to give the X21 Citaros, nevermind being able to justify B9s.
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