Looking at photographs on Flickr, the service appears to have previously been allocated a mixture of single deckers (pink OmniCitys, unbranded "MetroLINK" Solars, "Red Arrows" Mercs...) but also coaches. There was only one example of a double decker being used, which to me suggests that the service did not justify double decker usage back then. Why do you think it would justify the usage of Go North East's best double decker in the fleet now?
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That Answer is pretty simple and it would be down to the Increased Passenger Loadings Between Washington and Newcastle, As we learnt in 2011/12 the X1 wasn't coping whilst using Citaros due to the High Passenger Demand and again even with 6 Deckers it still struggled, so it got more Deckers. So it would make sense to use the B9's over the Citaros to prevent the same thing from happening again and thus making the Service Unreliable.
RE: Go North East Service Suggestions