at risk of playing fantasy fleets i cant imagine many if not any at all new vehicles. hopefully with Manchester gaining new electric 400 city's SNE could gain around 24 either 2012/2013 hybrid examples from there bringing the north east total to 50 ish it would allow the following to happen.

1. the first 4 at walkergate could allow for the 4 hired in decker's to either go off lease or split them in two pairs to Sunderland and slatyford for their school services.

2. the second batch of ten would be enough to release the ten (correct me if I'm wrong) 2007 registered E400s.

3. and then the final ten could allow a cascade of 5 vehicles each from walkergate to slatyford and Sunderland to alleviate a shortage of decker's at these depots.

at slatyford it could release 3 or 4 ALX300s to Stockton in turn allowing euro 6 E300s to move to Newcastle therefore releasing more ALX300s to Stockton.  so hypothetically out of 5 2008 registered E400s. one could be used as a spare vehicle and up to 4 non euro 6 single decks to elsewhere

the 5 at Sunderland could be used to provide more spares for use on X34 and the E services which sound like they could do with a couple of decker's at times. so out of 5 2008 registered 400s they could release 5 single decks to elsewhere.

if Stockton is being used as a storage yard for the likes of kinetics and withdrawn ALX300s it would make sense that all ALX300s move here to release euro 6 buses to Newcastle and all the withdrawn buses could be used for the cannibalizations of parts to keep active buses going until the can be replaced