(19 Feb 2024, 8:55 am)Aaron21 wrote This has to be a first. Ashington don't have any of the long solos out on the 57/57A. Maybe (I hope) Ashington have came to the senses and finally realised the 57/57A can't handle being them anymore

Is that not a good thing? Passenger numbers increasing and route needing upgrading. 
If this is the case I think this is the first route since COVID that has needed an upgraded (without being decreased during the pandemic, driver shortages or frequency reductions?) Happy to be corrected though....