(26 Sep 2021, 8:50 pm)Train8261 wrote Arriva won't invest up here. Everything new goes to Durham/Redcar or Stockton.

Whatever it replaced cone to Blyth or Jesmond or Ashington

It's deckers that are badly needed for Northumbria. Only real quality deckers down Durham & Tees are 7534-40.

- New vehicles on the X15, X18, X21, X22 would release 14x 2014 & 2015 E400 Classics. 11x of these (+7522) could then be used on the 43/44/45 with 3x of the best allocated on the X14. The older E400 Classics could then start to displace Volvo B7TLs and move into a more backseat role.

- New vehicles on the X21, X22 would release 12x E400MMCs. 10x of these would then make up the PVR for the 308. The other 2x, 1x to Blyth as spare with the other staying at Ashington as spare.

- Newer vehicles on the 308 would then release 10x DB300 Gemini 2s. 8x of these could then either be used on the 306 or back fill other older deckers.

- New vehicles on the X93/X94 would release 6x B9TLs. 4x of these would go on the X20 and along with the X14, releasing more older E400 classics (2009) into a backseat role. The other 2x would then act as float spares.