(30 Apr 2023, 7:37 am)54APhotography wrote Bit of an odd one this. The two remaining 55 plates aren't safe at all, there are more E300's to come and the exchanges are complete so its one ALX gone at a time. It arrived courtesy of Alpha, depends what went bang..
Wondering if it is down to reliability having had their fingers burnt multiple times now with cascaded crap from Scotland, even though newer than the exiting vehicles many have been much less reliable. Similar to what happened with replacing the elderly Darts and now scrabbling around to find remaining examples to replace the worse but newer alternatives. Of course the answer is investment in the fleet rather than finding the least bad life expired stock to chuck at the network outside of Newcastle.