(16 Apr 2019, 4:51 pm)Cock Robin wrote Would they want modern deckers sat doing nothing for half the year?

Getting on for 10 years old now so more mid-life...Other areas do it, look at Kendal with brand new open toppers for the 599 most of which sit unused all winter when the PVR plummets.  The issue is probably more the lack of return on the Seasider - the City Sightseeing tours used to run around practically empty most of the time and the Seasiders were hardly packed on opening weekend (hopefully this will improve into the summer and once people realise they are running - I think Stagecoach missed a trick failing to do any sort of launch or publicity - would have been so easy to have had the spare decker parked up at The Links or along the route, handing out leaflets/promos - but nothing).  It would be great to see them revive the old 22 between Shields and Sunderland as well but again, the custom just isnt there I suspect, sadly.