if I was fleet manager if all 6(correct me if I'm wrong) Carlisle buses are decent, I would have used those 6 as an opportunity to get rid of some E200s.
I would have done it by put all 6 in service at slatyford using 3 E300s to oust 3 E200s at slatyford sending the newer and hopefully more reliable examples to hartlepool. and then I would cascade 3 ALX300s to hartlepool to oust another 2 E200s there.
all in all, that would give both slatyford and hartlepool a small uplift in carrying capacity and an opportunity to remove 5 of the most troublesome E200s from service and strip them for spares and the spare ALX300 could be used as a spare vehicle for when one of the other ones goes properly tits up
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