(23 Apr 2023, 10:43 pm)Storx wrote Agreed,

The 5/5A/X4/X4A would be the routes I'd pick for the upgrade and then move the Streetlite's onto local work at Redcar and/or Stockton since they're banned from them all pretty much nowadays. The 63 is a route screaming for something better imo, the same as the 7/7A/8/9/15/17/17A at Stockton - obviously not enough to do all but they'd do a chunk of them depending on where they'd rather have the rather unreliable Streetlites nowadays.

One issue with Redcar is them being lumbered with the Temsa's and Arriva seem to want to them all together at the same depot. One thing I do wonder is, which will go first, the oldest Pulsar's or the Temsa's? I don't think it's beyond the rhelms of possibly the Temsa's could potentially go first with being non standard across the group vs the backbone of the group, we've recently just disposed of the OmniLink's which were 60 plates, although there's more Temsa's in the fleet than the 3 OmniLink's.