(27 Jun 2021, 1:17 pm)Micheal Aaron wrote I don't understand why they couldn't have just put the seasider back on at North Shields

I guess that costs money in drivers, fuel, dead mileage etc and they maybe arent confident the passenger demand would cover it.  Assuming these remain on the E's at Sunderland, the driver and mileage would have run anyway, just now with an open topper rather than an E300.