(12 Jul 2013, 3:31 pm)Kuyoyo wrote(12 Jul 2013, 3:18 pm)Andreos1 wrote So.... Not sure it has been mentioned, if deckers are working the Durham Road services, due to the high volume of passengers (remember the Coaster used deckers too) - how are the Omnicities going to cope?
Add this to the problems caused in the past due to traffic congestion - as I said yesterday, this is a backwards step.
Next question, where are the Vykings going? Presumably replacing the remaining Yellow deckers or will they end up elsewhere?
The Coaster went single not long after the 1/2 were originally extended to Wrekenton and Kibblesworth, plus most time I have been to Gateshead recently, the majority of 24 workings have been single decker. The only reason it used the Vykings on the first place was because it was somewhere to put them. Likelihood is they'll be used to replace Tridents on front-line runs (13/14, X22, X25, X30/X31/X70/X71 and X43) which indirectly replaces the Yellow Bus Olympians.
Timetable from Jan 2007 for the 1 / 2 running the Wrekenton / Kibblesworth route here. Fleet list from August 2008 showing still 11 deckers branded for Coaster? Looking at fleet lists after this date, they only gradually started removing them for repaint / reallocation.