(30 Oct 2022, 9:19 pm)Storx wrote Aye to be fair the North East fleet isn't too bad really though. Ideally though what they need to do is invest in some fleet somewhere and just displace everything out of it whether that's the North East or Lancashire or wherever and get arid of the elderly buses across the board.well they bought two operators in London so that should be more money coming in.
Similar with Decker's really they badly need to just make a massive order for somewhere like Manchester or Newcastle and just displace 100's of buses to get arid of the elderly buses across the fleet.
There doesn't seem to be any investment at all though bar partially funded buses though SCOTZEB or ZEBRA though and being bought by an investment firm probably isn't going to help matters either.
i think SNE would be to small to buy say for example 50 double Deckers in one year. that would mean the 2011 hybrids would probably be oldest Deckers in the north east fleet which wouldn't be to bad.
i think 25 double decks a year for 4 years would sort out SNE massively and the cascade (for example to cumbria) could be the 2007,2008 and 2010 E400s bringing the fleet age down over there (they still have ALX400s as standby buses) and maybe send the hybrids to Manchester as what happened with the oxford examples