(21 May 2022, 1:24 pm)peter wrote How much more high spec are 20 plate Streetdecks compared to 17 plate B5's? Not sure it's worth the repainting of all those buses. And in any case you're still left with the same issue of not enough for the PVR. The 47/47A previously used those same Streetdecks and if they're covering part of the X46 route I'd hardly say they're that much less deserving. 

It was by coincidence and the interworking patterns that the 47 became the X47. Ironically, it was mostly ran using E400MMCs interworking with the X70/X71 until September 2021.

Yes, having 2x older StreetDecks (as long as 6377 was thrown in) would be a bit meehh but they're brand new and far too high spec for the 47.

In fact, the older 'oddball' on the X21 could be reduced to only 1x with the following:

X1
- 6363-76
- 6332-33 as Euro 6 decker spares for Washington (note that some 50 boards could be allocated Euro 5 single deckers instead if needed I think ??)

X21
- 6331, 6356-62, 6377
- 6314, 6334, 6335 as Euro 6 decker spares for CLS

Then for the 47, 6308-13.