(20 Dec 2022, 8:06 pm)Storx wrote Well looking at the allocations the 5 at Walkergate seem to be bailing out the unreliable deckers so assume those will be directly replaced by the new order.

Which leaves the 8 at Slatyford and I'm sure there's been more; 22885, 22887, 22889, 22890, 24116, 24117, 24119 - 24123 and 24169 isn't it? They'll all be able to get Euro 6 Mod's like the ones they've already got there otherwise they need to move out either way, send them instead of ALX's? Not to mention there's been service reductions on the 6/7/8/30/31/36/71 which in theory should've released a few singles - not sure if anything has been replaced by them already though.

Not to mention the fact Walkergate currently has 14 single decker's, excluding the MAN's, to operate a PVR 4 on the 317, I don't believe there's any other single decker routes there - correct me if I'm wrong.

It's very close either way and if anything it'll be roughly 3 buses, seems a waste sending up Stockton's new buses for that.

"Well looking at the allocations the 5 at Walkergate seem to be bailing out the unreliable decker's so assume those will be directly replaced by the new order." -- 5 what? singles?

I didn't realise that more than 6 singles from Cumbria had arrived at SNE, I've not seen it mentioned on here so maybe they came under the radar a bit.

I certainly wasn't aware walkergate had 14 single decks- i thought they had 4 E200s for the 317, and 7 single decks 2 of which were the 2 2014 E300s from Stockton that were swapped with the 60 plate E400s