(13 Apr 2021, 10:53 am)Storx wrote So it seems the transfers have all been done but does anyone actually know what the reason behind it as the 1/2 are still ran by the minibuses and 1401/1402 aren't withdrawn either, are they actually for the expresses or was it actually about giving Blyth newer buses rather than the 2 ex London deckers.
It seems it's more like.
Blyth
Out: 7609(7485)/7610(7487)/1401/1402/1768/1769
In: 1407/1461/1462/1463/1475/1409?
Durham
Out: 1461/1462/1463/1475/1409?
In: 7485/7487/1768/1769/1579/1580
Ashington
Out: 1407/1579/1580
In: 1401/1402
Only really 2 big bus gain for Blyth rather than the 8 that's needed for the 1/2.
Blyth still have a small "don't send me to Newcastle" rota, which will be minibuses.
1401/2 only appear to be at Ashington because their engineers can't work out how to get the rest of their buses to stay on the road for more than a week. 1401 was taken off the X20 early on this morning and replaced by an E400. 7445 is spending another day on the X14, having done the first southbound X18 from Belford to Alnwick via Seahouses this morning (balls of steel whoever allocated that), while 7484 is doing its thing on the Sapphire circuit as per.