(07 Apr 2023, 11:31 pm)L469 YVK wrote Would 7541-52 if they were replaced to bring all of Ashington in line not be an option?

Still a bit of a grey area replacing these as unknown how the X21 & X22 will fare when the ABTL opens next year and whether there'll be a frequency reduction.

At the moment, it's currently:
- 16x E400MMC (72 reg) - X14, X15, X18, X20
- 3x E400MMC (72 reg) - X21/X22
- 12x E400MMC (17 reg) - X21/X22

So if the 7541-52 (17 reg) were replaced, would still leave no spares as such, but would give maybe 3x-4x spares if the X21 & X22 got reduced to every 30 minutes each.

ADC need new deckers much much more than Ashington need 6 year old MMCs replacing... 

The allocation of the E400s is, much like the Blyth/Walkergate situation, nowhere near that strict either. All decker boards are E400, on paper there's literally no differentiation between the 14 plates, 64 plates, 15 plate, 17 plates and 72 plates in an allocation sense. The MMCs will be allocated to the Morpeth express routes ahead of the older E400s, which are more likely to find themselves on the 35, but that's about it.