(30 Jul 2014, 7:57 pm)Marcus wrote Will be nice to see 5229-5233 on Chester services again, during that week in between the OK1s withdrawn and X84/X85s commencing they were all randomly allocated at Chester - as if they were Northern spares!
They wound up mainly on the 34s and X22s (surprisingly, 3983 seems to emerge from the darkness of the depot during the holidays for the X22), and the 71s and X25s.
Thats because, at the time, they were essentially 'Northern' spares as they didnt have a specific allocation due to them been branded for a service that was non-existant (after the changes). As always, they shouldnt have been allocated over a red spare as technically i would have still classed them as 'branded vehicles'.