(17 Nov 2022, 5:09 pm)Dans_bus_photos wrote Looks like Sunderland are having a nightmare with their deckers now they've lost 3 of them to Shields- 2 school boards were operated by gas buses this morning due to 19114, 19440 and 19642 being VOR and then 19444 breaking down. According to bus times it appears 10643 is on loan to Sunderland operating the Sedgefield board this afternoon and to top it off it looks like 19383 has broken down at Team Valley with 19211 being sent to replace it.just shows older vehicles being used on peak services, should blag the 24 15-reg Scanias from Preston to bulk up Newcastle services, first 15 at walkergate to cascade older vehicles to slatyford to get their services in order, next 5 to be used as walkergate spares until the 15-reg buses reliability can be judged, once that has been done if they are good cascade the 5 oldest buses on to Sunderland and finally the last 4 used to cascade the 2 ex Stockton E300s and finally 2 spare.
once the 400 MMCs have been allocated and delivered, depending on numbers, i would say 20 should be earmarked for the bulk of 62/63 services at slatyford. I sure the slatyford PVR is 20 for this. with any remaining cascading older vehicles.