(13 Mar 2019, 9:22 pm)L469 YVK wrote As much as we'd love to see something better than the StreetDecks on the Castles Express, I think they will stay put for the time being.
If GNE really wanted them off the Castles Express, they would've went with a mixed fleet allocation for the Cobalt Clippers (sending 7x refurbed B9TLs to Crook) and allocated them primarily to boards running late into the evening.
I think they'll take them off the X21 as they are poor reliability wise, they seem to spend more time at Chester-Le-Street than anywhere else which maybe the best place for them on the 13/14 & X25.
It would also help standardise the fleet at Chester also.