(05 Sep 2021, 4:25 pm)mb134 wrote Not planned to coincide with the introduction of the first X-Lines spec vehicles in late 2019 though?I agree. Perhaps as I suggested before there could've been a swap or an interworking pattern to allocate E200MMCs on the former evening 6A & X30 journeys. Not just from a spec POV but also cost compared to running an Omnicity or Citaro.
Regardless of the explanations, I understand that changes due to Covid might have prevented mass rota changes, it seems poor to be promoting evening journeys, X-Lines, etc yet to not make the effort to ensure vehicles matching the advertised spec were available for Riverside to allocate to the evening X30 for the past 18 months.
But...............the evening X30 was a relatively new concept and had to be done in the most efficient way. First time a late evening 'X' journey also ran to Stanley. GNE also did the same with the X70 at somepoint allocating StreetLites.
Obviously the evening & Sunday X30/X72 journeys interwork with the X45/X46 thus can now be allocated E400MMCs.
The Sunday X30 journeys since the pandemic and before the recent round of changes used to interwork with the X71 using E400MMCs