(26 Mar 2022, 10:22 pm)Jimmi wrote 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)

Thanks for that, thought it was 2 but didn't realise it interworked with 56. Makes sense though. Definitely though especially with all the vehicles off the road.

(26 Mar 2022, 10:48 pm)peter wrote Durham still have 7 Solo's, I'd argue they shouldn't have any tbh, unless passenger numbers are lower on the 49/49A/57/57A these days. The thing with Jesmond is they have more than 12 Solo's, as some are allocated to the 52/53/54, but like you say the depot re-jig should see an end to that. The ones at Whitby are sound just running around on the 95. Darlington have withdrawn all the Omnicities because there were PVR decreases on the town services which are solo operated. So now you have Solo's running around on the X26/27/66/67/75/76, so they could deffo do with more Pulsars.

I reckon, Blyth will do the X7/X8/X9/X10/X11/308 with the 31 DB300's, then 12 E400's operating either the 43 or 306 not sure if that would leave enough spare for that PVR. Then ofc the Streetlites for the 52/53/54. I reckon the new Walkergate depot could be just single decks, doing the E200 operated services, the 43 (could go Ashington alternatively) or 306, 44/45 and 685.

Isn't there 14 Enviro 200 MMC's which I'm assuming are going to be MPD length (8.5m I think) to replace the Solo's there coming. I do agree with the rest of it though mind pretty much, but the X7-X11 will need more buses than that as there is currently Pulsars on daily, believe roughly 3 boards on the X7/X8/X9.

Personally though my random guess is:

Ashington:
1/2 - 8x Pulsar
35 - 2x Pulsar (1493 / 1501) / 2x Enviro 400 MMC
X20 - 2x Enviro 400 MMC / 2x Pulsar (1408 / 1411)
X21/X22 - Enviro 400 MMC
X14 - Pulsar (1502 - 1505) - Interworking with something??
X15 - Enviro 400 MMC
X18 - 6x Enviro 400 MMC
57/57A - Unknown

Blyth:
X7/X8/X9 - 14x Gemini
X10/X11 - ??? (7529 - 7533, 7553 - 7556 maybe?)
306/308 - 17x Gemini
52/53/54 - Streetlites

Jesmond:
43/44/45 - 6x Enviro 400 (7522 / 7524 - 7528) / 8x Pulsar (1500 / 1537 - 1543)
47 - Pulsar
685 - Pulsar (Sapphires)
Minibuses - Enviro 200 MMC

Other Depots:
X93/X94 Spares - 7557 / 7558 - 7560 / 7562
X46 - 7514 - 7517 / 7519 - 7521
B7TL Spare replacement - 7501 - 7509 / 7511 - 7512 (Spread between Blyth, Jesmond and Durham - maybe some at Ashington aswell).

I'm expecting to be very wrong