(03 Sep 2022, 9:12 pm)Storx wrote ex London stock would be probably the best bet. There's going to be loads of DW's coming up soonish and no-one is really going to want them so can't see the value being too great since they're a unique bus which only Arriva bought as far as I'm aware or the T's alternatively.

Could get some to get rid of the 57/09 plate Enviro's and whatever is doing the X46 at Durham (still B7's?) which really need to go the highway aswell as they're all shot to pieces.

Possibly, but are they going to be *that* much better than B7s which have had lots of mechanical attention in anything but age profile? Whack some private plates on the B7s à la Transdev and away you go. 

The 09 plate E400s are fine on easier work (local Durham work such as the 43s, 64s, 48s, even X46s I'd think), it's only the express stuff they're well past by this point. They still have 2-3 years left before they'd likely be considered end of life for most companies, let alone ANE. I'd tend to agree with the B7s in general though, the youngest ones are approaching 18 years old (and they've been 'looked after' by Durham for the last few years of their life...). Obviously my thoughts on the X94 ones differ a bit at present to the rest of them.