(27 Oct 2020, 6:54 pm)Cobalt271 wrote 7553 has much improved in recent weeks, as has 55 hence it being allocated express work again. All the E400s bar the ex Yorkshire examples at Ashington are starting to become tired now and are in need of relocating to quieter, less demanding depots.

Good to hear 7553 has improved, was glacial along the A1 both times I had it in the summer. 7554/6 have been brilliant each time I've had them, though again recently I'm led to believe they've both had issues. 

Really the X15/8 need new MMCs. The 09 plates are shot, particularly 7514/5, and the 57 plates are virtually end of life at this point and just need to be put onto the 35 for the next few years until they die. The 64 plates don't seem too bad, but again they've pretty much all been used flat out for the best part of 6 years on the X18 and probably could do with being pushed over to the X20 or something even less demanding like you say. Then the less said about the Scanias the better, the X14 would benefit with literally anything else on there.