(23 Nov 2023, 5:18 pm)Shrek wrote Easy to get around that one, just relies on the depot being aware a match is on and swapping a decker on before it does the late run to Newcastle.

Easier said than done that - who changes it over.  Bus that was due to go to the depot earlier in the evening could be parked at Ashington, but then who takes the single decker to depot as the driver off the decker could have been finished earlier, and the Leading Driver could be out covering mileage.  You could argue an engineer should, but what happens if they are unavailable (maybe attending a breakdown) - changing buses over when they are not suppose to is a receipe for things to go wrong.