(26 Mar 2022, 10:00 pm)Storx wrote Is there actually many Solo's which are officially in use now? It's very hard to tell what's going on with Durham lately as there's about 15 vehicles off the road currently. I'm assuming it must be extremely low though especially when the 86 goes (on paper at least). Jesmond's are on borrowed time with the Enviro 200 MMC's. That just leaves Darlington and Whitby which are a bit more difficult as the routes are all running around estates where full size singles would be useless. They do need to go though, wonder what the refurbished Ashington stock is though and maybe more might be coming to see off more down in Darlington.Loss of the 86 only really saves one bus from the current 56/86 cycle and should be interesting to see what happens as the 6, 7 & 64 are going back up in frequency from the same (although still not pre lockdown levels on the 6 & 64)
Unless there's Pulsars moving out of Jesmond then there's 15 Pulsars for the 306/685. Some of them will be going on the 43/44/45 and it makes sense there's no need for Deckers there. 7501 - 7509 only ended up there to shut up Gosforth and were too knackered to do anything else imo. Not to mention the 4 58 plates and the 1 14 plate aswell. Can't see them getting 12 Deckers like.
One noticeable thing is though if these changes are getting setup for the new depot changes in the future then the Pulsars need to leave Blyth as there isn't space for them if the 52/53/54 and it's Streetlite's are moving to Blyth.
RE: New buses