(30 May 2023, 12:16 pm)mb134 wrote Not dissimilar to how Ashington was performing prior to the arrival of the 72 plates.Would it not be better converting 7401-7406 to Euro 6, and doing a swap with Ashington for 6x 72x plate E400MMCs?
The 2 damaged B9s look to be badly missed, imagine there's been delays in getting them fixed? From what I've heard 7555 was due back from fire damage at least a couple of months ago, and still isn't back so it's possibly similar here.
Even an extra 2-3 vehicles seem like they'd go a long way to fix the issues. That said, it seems mental that they've just got 2 shiny MMCs that have been bulletproof for Ashington and are using one of them daily on the P1. Before the "but the X93 is hilly" comments come in, I was on 7575 the other week and it overtook a Solo comfortably up Whorral Bank out of Morpeth.
The whole situation screams of poor local management.
Could be allocated on the X20 & X14 (latter would be 1x E400MMC & 2x B9TL). X14 runs with reduced PVR on Sundays interworking with X15 and X20 doesn't run on an evening or Sunday.