(30 Dec 2021, 5:17 pm)KingSlayerRBLX wrote we lost 6337 as that went to act as the spare bus for the X84/85.Neither 6336 or 6337 will be required at Hexham after the 30th January due to the X84/X85 being withdrawn in their current form. The revised X10 doesn't need a low height decker and can be covered by 6377 or a B9TL.
We are gaining Under Euro 6 Buses such as the B5LH's and losing Streetdecks from 6302-7. probably gonna lose 6301. However i have seen on bustimes.org that we (Consett) may be keeping 3963, the Volvo B7TL Wright Gemini as it was caught doing the Red Kite Ranger 47 to Consett. However, this could of been a ticketer swap.
we will have lost all of our Charcoal spares.
6336 - Possibly to be a spare for the X10
6337 - Spare for the X84/85
6376 - Washington General Spare
6377 - Chester-Le-Street for the X21.
Would be ideal to have 6334 & 5 to trial on the Red Kite Ranger 47/47A or the X-Lines X45 & X46 or really just become a General Spare to see how they would run on the routes they were gonna be apart of in the original X-Lines Investment plan.
Therefore, the most natural option (unless GNE have other plans) will be to put both of them at Consett where low height Euro 6 deckers are needed as spares.
Volvo B5TLs were never part of the original XLines investment plan, only StreetDecks and E400MMCs. There were plans for the B5TLs when on the X9/X10 to eventually be cascaded on to the X84/X85 when the intention was to purchase more suitable deckers for the X9/X10. However, COVID changed all the original plans.