(16 Sep 2018, 9:45 am)Cock Robin wrote How about giving Redcar sufficient spare deckers rather than sending them all to Northumberland.

Or, even more radically, how about Redcar actually fix their B7's so that they can manage to operate anything away from a 10 mile radius of the depot?

They have 9 deckers to cover 8 workings, which is 12.5% spare - a pretty standard spare percentage.