(15 Jun 2020, 5:49 pm)peter wrote The original order was for 22x vehicles for the Consett expresses (X31/45/46/47/70/71) and just 2 vehicles for the X21 to make up the PVR...now that the X21 PVR has decreased why would that change, especially when you'd have to go to the trouble of repainting all the current X21 vehicles! If the reliability of the X21 was that much of an issue, then you'd have thought the original order would have been for a full fleet of deckers for the X21 in the first place...I see your point and understand why you think it should happen, but I just don't think it's all that realistic.
Yes that may be true, but they would save even more money by not going to the trouble of repainting dozens of B9's and Streetdecks only to replace them with B9's and Streetdecks
From what I was told, it was only about £1000 per StreetDeck to repaint them into X-Lines, assuming that is actually correct, that's a lot less than I expected