(03 Sep 2022, 12:48 pm)P814VTY wrote I think I was just observing how Ashington have had 2 injections of new buses in 5 years. It was obviously justified, but you're right about the Geminis at Blyth. Yes they're going to be 14 year old next year, but they just power through 19 hour days of service (5am - midnight)
Yeah that's fair, thought there was something wrong with them that I didn't know about.
tbh I don't think the Gemini's will be that high on the list other than the ones on the 308 possible. Could maybe see something like a new order for the 306/308, the Gemini's cascaded off there to fill the remaining X7/X8/X9 boards and act as spares at Blyth (there's limited single decker space at Blyth) with the Pulsar's / newer Enviro's at Jesmond been moved on elsewhere possibly cascading the 57 plate Enviro's out.
As someone said after thought the Southern depots need investment more imo, they badly need to get shot of the B7's, get the 57 Plate / 09 Plate Enviro's off frontline work and withdraw all the remaining 08/58 plate Solo's as they're all pretty much heaps nowadays.