(11 Sep 2023, 9:08 pm)mb134 wrote I think, if even to take stress away from the rest of the Redcar fleet, it's more beneficial to supply the X93 with new vehicles rather than hope 7 year old MMCs which have been flogged on express routes for 7 years straight still have it in them. 

I'd say they are arguably more in need than Durham, and the B9s could replace the remaining B7s there for the time being?

Guess it depends on £££. If the Ashington or Durham routes make more money then arguably they'll go higher on the pecking order. From memory they only got the B9's because they basically begged for them and it was a very last minute decision hence the dealer stock and at the time there was nothing in the fleet that realistically could go on there.

Don't disagree with it, in reality, but this is the same company who thinks fixing the minibus problem at Ashington is by sending more and more of the same type of minibus with the same problems over and over again, with a spare which has a completely inappropiate capacity.