(11 May 2023, 7:24 pm)L469 YVK wrote On another note, I knew this would happen with the 50's one way or another.
Arriva don't want to have to pull the resources to operate them not forgetting (with some movements) that Blyth & Ashington can effectively become decker operated with the 1, 2, 57, 57A using StreetLites from the 52/53/54.
They'd need Deckers first for that though. I'm sure they'd get arid of more Pulsars at Blyth if they could but they just simply can't as there's nothing to replace them.
Darlington badly needs new Deckers and the ALX400's really need to go aswell.
Assuming they'll be replaced by 7501 - 7507 though, whether that's an upgrade though is debatable. The Streetlites will head South imo and join their sisters and sort out the shortage problems at Redcar and Stockton, in particular.