(25 Jul 2018, 7:15 pm)Dan wrote With fleet standardisation in mind, similar bus types will be grouped as closely as possible... So the EYMS ones are likely to be grouped together at one depot (most likely Saltmeadows Road to keep them isolated from the main service fleet), the 02-plate dual-door Vykings are likely to be grouped together at one depot, etc.

I'd expect Chester-le-Street to standardise their double-deck fleet with OmniDekkas, and Washington to standardise their fleet with native B7/Gemini (currently at Chester-le-Street). This gives these smaller depots with fewer spare vehicles some flexibility in using the scholars buses during the day if needs be. It'd be less practical having the ex-London stock at either Chester-le-Street or Washington as it's quite likely that they'd be out in frontline service on a daily basis (as has been the case with the 02-plate Vyking Special Events fleet this year!) Depots such as Deptford and Riverside tend to be a bit more disciplined with scholars buses, only using them as a very last resort.

And stanley has done and seen it all

Mind, I can't see those huge omnidekkas getting onto tesco buses, that's all I can see never happening for at least the next few weeks...!

There was one day last week with the trees meaning that more or less the durham diamond 6A boards were all Red Kite buses and the Red Kite boards were all durham diamonds. That was confusing a little, felt like it was 30 mins later or earlier

Talking of all this tree branch inflicted chaos -- when are our branchy friends at Rowlands getting the cut?

And I'll slip this here - having deckers on 6As has been good. I really think they need to put them on with sundays or split it into 30 mins for the evening. The Streetlites get absolutely packed on Thursday/Friday/Saturday/Sunday evenings, consistently.

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