(15 May 2023, 2:52 pm)Busu284 wrote See the problem u have is there isn't enough deckers at Walkergate/Blyth to cover the 43/44/45/X7/8/9/10/11 alongside shoving decekrs on the 306/308 as well. Reason we are seeing the occasion of the E400 from Ashington randomly appearing and 7524/25/26/56 appearing at Blyth & Walkergate
This isn't correct.
There are enough deckers on paper to cover what they should be covering. The X7/8/9 you mention have 5 Pulsar boards, with the 43 also having one booked Pulsar.
7524-6 were transferred to replace 7515-7 for school boards which require E6 deckers. In reality they join a pool of E6 compliant deckers there, there was no net change in the amount of deckers at Walkergate after their transfer.
I notice that the board 1586 was put onto today for it's one 308 run has only been a single deck for one other day in the past fortnight. I'd imagine once all work moves to Blyth and vehicle allocation becomes easier then we may see an improvement in 306/308 decker allocation, at the moment I think the runout from Walkergate is somewhat restricted - and don't forget Blyth depot isn't fully complete, so they're limited in engineering capacity I believe.