(08 May 2024, 5:34 pm)omnicity4659 wrote The whole "Blyth wrecks this", "Stockton wrecks that", "it left Redcar fine" discussion is getting a bit tedious now.

Depot engineering departments are given a set budget and have to make it stretch, a hard task when your fleet is getting on a bit. With tight budgets, rising costs for parts, long lead times for parts, and poor management, this is what results from it.

The irony of it, of course, is that Redcar and Stockton are managed by the same Engineering Manager, so the argument that one of those depots has ruined the other's bus, is even less comprehensible.