(21 May 2022, 9:50 am)peter wrote The numbers certainly seem to add up on the Blyth end too. The depot plans there have space for 43 deckers and 15 singles. the 15 singles would presumably be the 13 Streetlites for the 52/53/54 + 2 spare (Jesmond currently have 14 Streetlites so maybe 1579 brought over from Durham?) and then the current Blyth services have a PVR of 32 with 31 DB300's there. So presumably a few E400's or cascaded vehicles will replace the Pulsars (1493/1501-5) for use on the 306 and as spares.

One thing which is noticeable is the timings for the 306. It appears all the evening services are going to be ran by Blyth as the last bus is 21.xx

I'd imagine 1493/1501-1505 will go down South though to replace vehicles elsewhere rather than staying up here. Jesmond has enough Pulsars as it is. 

Be interesting whether it'll be cascades or a new order though as Blyth's fleet is aging quite badly. If you done the X7/X8/X9 then that would leave enough DB300's for the X10/X11/306/308. 7601 -7608 have always been the X7/X8/X9 allocation since new pretty much so it would make sense to displace the oldest buses plus the 6 Pulsars.