(07 Mar 2015, 1:51 pm)Tommy_1581 wrote Look at Blyth, quite a modern fleet. However in Ashington, we have quite an aged fleet. Mostly London cast offs replacing London cast offs.
Wouldn't say Ashington has an aged fleet?
12 14/64 reg E400's
8 09 reg E400's
12 57 reg E400's
3 64 reg Streetlites
2 05 reg Omnicities
5? 05/55/56 reg Darts
The rest, granted is more than 10 years old but they're hardly used on very profitable services, and mainly as spares?
You surely can't expect Arriva to fork out hundreds of thousands of pounds for spare vehicles and use on the 34 for example?