Don't know i'm reading into this to much but I think they could be looking to close Saltmeadows Road with mentions of some of those redundancies being from Engineering, large majority of accident repairs could be done at major depots such as Riverside/Deptford where workforce could be split. Repaints would then be outsourced as they seem to have been over the past few months with the Ex London B9's and some of the E400's, not much has been painted at Saltmeadows recently going off of posts on here.

Could they benefit from selling off Hexham to Stagecoach with them now wholly operating the 685 from Newcastle to Carlisle from this week and would be benefit the locals having only one operator operating there local services rather than the mix they've had for a number of years.

Savings elsewhere such as promotional stuff should all be done in-house as we know of a staff member who does an excellent job internally rather than paying Mr Stenning's pension, other savings could be made through having Electric Buses used on Sundays operating on services that usually use Diesel Buses when not required on there designated route, this would be restricted to Riverside.

Would it be worth potentially ditching National Express Ops, anyone know how much GNE get for operating these as it would help with Driver Shortages although the designated drivers may not want to operate normal services which could lead to potential issues.