(25 Aug 2017, 10:32 pm)omnicity4659 wrote Wonder how that happened. 

What I'm told is that the X15 is earmarked for new buses next year, when I was told about the StreetDeck coming for trials, the lad did say that those were the types that were coming. 

What I assume will happen, is that the E400s off the X15 cascade onto the X20, withdrawing or transferring 7412-6.

It's suicide if they are the type coming. The X15 needs all the help it can get as it is, putting buses on that are limited to 50mph is as close to giving up the service as you can get. It stinks of Arriva, as per usual, doing everything on the cheap. The decision to buy B9TLs for the X93 was clearly, as feared, a false dawn. They took over a successful business in Northumbria, that specified buses highly, and bought vehicles appropriate for the routes they'd be allocated to, and have ran it into the ground. 

Again, moving 7511-3 to the X20 is just a disaster waiting to happen. They've been blasted up and down the A1 for the past 9 years, and to expect them to continue to do so is sheer folly. Those 3 should really be moved to the 35 if anything, 7514 is the only one branded for the X15 that should be kept on the expresses. Both the X15 and X20 need brand new vehicles, and not things that are limited to 50mph that will have absolutely no chance of keeping anything on time.