(16 Sep 2018, 9:45 am)Cock Robin wrote How about giving Redcar sufficient spare deckers rather than sending them all to Northumberland.

(16 Sep 2018, 10:44 am)Multi21 wrote As someone quite rightly pointed out if they didn't keep sending all the deckers northwards this wouldn't be an issue. 

The Yorkshire E400s will be replacing 10 and a half year old buses that have been on express work since new. Nobody was saying that all the deckers were being sent to Northumberland when Redcar got their B9TLs, and the X18 had to make do with E400s... 

It also isn't Ashingtons issue that Redcar still can't properly maintain their vehicles, which has been an issue for as long as I can remember.