(15 Sep 2018, 2:54 pm)Cock Robin wrote Imaging GNE taking all the deckers off a flagship route just because a college shut.

If they saw a significant decrease in daily loadings they'd do the same too. There's better places for the DB300s to be utilised than going around half empty on the X12.

The swaps are enabling a much needed upgrade at Northumbria, meaning that the X15 can have a reliable fleet, and that the elderly E400s move onto less taxing routes before they're withdrawn.