(25 Sep 2022, 10:44 pm)toward6931 wrote if I was fleet manager if all 6(correct me if I'm wrong) Carlisle buses are decent, I would have used those 6 as an opportunity to get rid of some E200s.
I would have done it by put all 6 in service at slatyford using 3 E300s to oust 3 E200s at slatyford sending the newer and hopefully more reliable examples to hartlepool. and then I would cascade 3 ALX300s to hartlepool to oust another 2 E200s there.
all in all, that would give both slatyford and hartlepool a small uplift in carrying capacity and an opportunity to remove 5 of the most troublesome E200s from service and strip them for spares and the spare ALX300 could be used as a spare vehicle for when one of the other ones goes properly tits up
The ex-Carlisle MAN E300s are not Euro6 - so they cannot be allocated to Slatyford as they wouldn't be able to be used on the vast majority of services. 22887/9 have only entered service there to cover for vehicles away as part of the Commonwealth Games (allowing some of the newer native re-engined examples to move to Walkergate on loan, and 26071 to be loaned to Stockton even if that happened months before they arrived). Their likely home is Stockton, either as replacements for the ALX300s here or to release the MMCs northwards.
Slatyford do still require E200s, for the 32/32A and 35 (even if the 35 can be covered by full size vehicles). The 6/7 has already been converted to full size vehicles, hence the cascade of 36091-3 to Hartlepool as they were surplus to requirements.