(07 Oct 2022, 1:44 pm)omnicity4659 wrote how can they oust Solos from the fleet by transferring vehicles...that have already replaced Solos?

the transfer of 2701-14 from Northumbria doesn't make any sense, as they pretty much cover the Northumbria midibus PVR post-reductions later this month.

If true, I'd imagine the Northumbria midibus routes will be converted to conventional operation. 

51 - given the withdrawal of the 51A, conversion to single decks could make sense. Current 46/51 PVR is 5, this will possibly reduce the 51 standalone PVR to 2/3?

55 - reduction to every 30 minutes would make an easy case for slightly larger vehicles, again single deckers would make sense. PVR would be 2, down from 3. 

57/A - have borderline justified single deckers with passenger loadings for a good while as far as I've seen - were some of the quickest routes to recover post-Covid, hence the decker allocation after the first lockdown. 

With interworking of the 51/55, and depending on the re-route of the 51, you could possibly interwork those for a combined PVR of 4. Given the 553/555 can be operated with 2601-3/2837, you could essentially remove all 9 E200s from Jesmond and replace them with 4 saloons with the service cuts. 

In total it would be 14 E200s to Darlington, with 8 Pulsars needed (let's say 9 to include a spare). As far as I can remember, 2x Ashington Pulsars were put into reserve following the arrival of the new buses, as well as 4x Jesmond ones. Let's say, for sake of argument, that the 685 transfers to Stagecoach operation - there's the final 3.