(10 Jun 2022, 6:33 pm)DeltaMan wrote I doubt that Hexham drivers will be signing on and off at Consett. That's not how outstations work.
I believe Hexham has always been a glorified outstation of Riverside and previously Winlaton anyway.
So I assume the heavy engineering will take place at Consett, which is a similar distance away to Riverside. The only thing is where they probably could swap buses over at Meteocentre, they lose that flexibility.
It was more the depot staff I was talking about there rather than driver's. I'm assuming there will be a whole team there atm which mostly won't be needed anymore even if it's as simple as the cleaner.
Suppose it depends what kind of outstation it is though whether it's an Arriva Whitby / GNE Crook outstation or a sub-depot outstation. The fact it's being downgraded as I do believe you're right about it being a sub depot of Riverside, I kind of want to think the former.