(30 Jan 2023, 9:30 am)ReDemPTiion wrote 27740 NK11 BGY seems to be tracking around slatyford depot wonder if a few of the 11 plates can be expected as well as the 64/65 plates from Stockton. ALX300’s and older E300’s seem to still be in service they must have a small extension from the council to allow the buses to be sorted before making the trip south.
It'll be interesting to see if the MAN's go at all. There's an exception that if you order new buses and can proove that they'll be displaced within a year they can continue running in the zone. I'm assuming the new Decker order with displace all the singles bar the ones for the 317 at Walkergate which should be enough to get arid of most of them from Slatyford, depending what goes where.
They can in theory do it now, with the remaining 59 plates heading down to Stockton for the 65 plates. There's been no effort to do it so far.
(30 Jan 2023, 1:17 pm)toward6931 wrote i wonder if this is where the rumors of the older E400s sticking around are coming from, instead of Stockton receiving them Sunderland get them to replace the affected gas buses,
would make sense until guaranteed replacements are found and procured, mind you with some of the walkergate hybrids falling apart SNE are rapidly losing buses.
am I right in thinking there's 26 hybrids and 40 gas buses. If so these in addition to the older vehicles that will need replacement is likely to take a herculean effort and amount of investment
Yeah possibly like, and believe that's right. Either way they definitely need investment. The MAN 200's urgently need to go aswell tbh.