(11 May 2022, 9:34 pm)L469 YVK wrote Well it won't be the depot but more likely Arriva. Perhaps they're getting ahead of the game getting things repainted ready for cascades.

I'd imagine it would be coming out of the depots engineering budget. Regardless though, Ashington seem to be struggling with a huge vehicle shortage, I don't imagine they'd be happily sending vehicles away for 8 weeks at a time if the plan was for them to almost immediately be shipped to another depot.