(19 Jun 2020, 4:33 pm)Storx wrote I don't know the fleet at Ashington but will they have enough buses to do that. I know 1579/80 are regularly on the 57 usually anyway (guessing minis off the road).

Generally the 35 allocation (pre-Corona) was: 7445/6/84/6 and 7510. (Streetlites branded but were generally filling in for Scanias on the X14).

The 57 allocation should have been four from: 2809/12/13 and 1800/1. 

If the Scanias sort themselves out, then you'd have the two Streetlites available for the 35 as well as 7510. You'd then need two from the minibus pool to put onto the quieter boards. Not ideal, but with the 57 being quite busy through this period then it's certainly a solution to an inevitable problem (until the social distancing is reduced). 


On a separate note - it's baffled me that Arriva Durham County are running dupes with single deckers and minibuses, yet still have some of their older deckers parked up (7416/24/55/6/93), and all of the Scanias. Seems completely backward - keeping the highest capacity vehicles off the road and running dupes with vehicles that even combined sometimes don't reach a deckers capacity. Obviously on the contrary, Northumbria are using deckers at will (Ashington, Blyth and Jesmond all have most, if not all, of their older stock out - with Jesmond seemingly only holding back their Omnicities and Ashington only holding back 4659 thus far).