(26 Mar 2022, 8:05 pm)peter wrote I'm just not convinced they'll pull it off withdrawing all the Belmont ALX400's haha. I know there's some more Liverpool pulsars to come, can't help think it would be better to use them to replace Solo's cause we've got far too many in the region, then get some more ex-London vehicles to Durham for the X46/48

Is there actually many Solo's which are officially in use now? It's very hard to tell what's going on with Durham lately as there's about 15 vehicles off the road currently. I'm assuming it must be extremely low though especially when the 86 goes (on paper at least). Jesmond's are on borrowed time with the Enviro 200 MMC's. That just leaves Darlington and Whitby which are a bit more difficult as the routes are all running around estates where full size singles would be useless. They do need to go though, wonder what the refurbished Ashington stock is though and maybe more might be coming to see off more down in Darlington.

(26 Mar 2022, 9:06 pm)L469 YVK wrote Working it out, there'd still be 3x 14/64/15 reg classic E400 spare if 12x were allocated to the 43/44/45. Obviously the quieter X14 boards in the summer could be worked by something else.

If 7514-17 & 7510 (non standard) aren't leaving Northumbria, they'd make good use on the 35.

Ideally, some more investment next year to replace 7401-06 and with a Euro 6 conversion, they could provide a hell of a lot of flexibility between Ashington, Redcar and Whitby for spares & PVR increases.

If Blyth (that's depending on orders) presumably stuck with WrightBus like the DB300s and ended up with OM934 StreetDecks, would make sense to tag 6x OM936 StreetDecks on top of that order for the X93/X94

Unless there's Pulsars moving out of Jesmond then there's 15 Pulsars for the 306/685. Some of them will be going on the 43/44/45 and it makes sense there's no need for Deckers there. 7501 - 7509 only ended up there to shut up Gosforth and were too knackered to do anything else imo. Not to mention the 4 58 plates and the 1 14 plate aswell. Can't see them getting 12 Deckers like.

One noticeable thing is though if these changes are getting setup for the new depot changes in the future then the Pulsars need to leave Blyth as there isn't space for them if the 52/53/54 and it's Streetlite's are moving to Blyth.