(05 Jan 2022, 6:31 pm)mb134 wrote The 1/2 I've heard from multiple people working at both depots, the X10/11 seems less substantial but a few folk have mentioned it - less convinced with that one at the moment mind. Don't think any of it has been confirmed officially at this point.
In terms of the 1, it runs past Ashington at the moment and I believe they used to operate it at one stage. With the 2, you could either interwork it with the 35 to have driver breaks at Ashington, or leave it standalone if you have drivers breaking at Morpeth/travelling on the 35 to Ashington.
Yeah that's fair enough then makes sense. See for the 1/2 I'd just assume they'd interwork with each other. 1 to Widdrington, 1 to Blyth, then 2 to Morpeth, 2 to Blyth then 1 back to Ashington. Don't see why it couldn't work and arguably the buses are probably better placed up there anyway, should be about right for hours I believe.
(05 Jan 2022, 6:33 pm)peter wrote Sorry should have put in my original post that I was just collating all the current rumours, edited to specify that now. Yeah I agree the 43/44/45 would make more sense for Ashington - the difference would leave 5 spares at Blyth as opposed to 1 - perhaps to get the remaining spares there will finally be the trimming down of the 306/308 that some members of the forum have been suggesting for an eternity. The only other thought I had was perhaps the new Jesmond depot won't just be minibuses and the 52/53/54 will go there, or alternatively, not sure what the passenger numbers are like on that group but could they be downgraded to minibus?
Yeah I had in the back of mind for downgrading them but then you'd just move the problem with lack of minibuses. Mind I do think we're going to get buses from London pretty soonish. I know it's been rumoured on the Arriva London forums a few times lately and they're withdrawing a lot of buses because of PVR cuts down there. I know there's a batch of 09 Enviro's being withdrawn now but they're on lease and there's a batch of DB300's unaccounted for in a few months aswell. They need more buses regardless to get arid of the B7's and Omnicity's since they're not Euro 6 and I doubt Arriva are 'that' stupid to upgrade them.