(02 Aug 2023, 6:02 pm)peter wrote 2861 has been on the 58 everyday since July 15th, 2834 and 2857 seem to have been escaping onto the 56 recently which is still a fair trek, regardless they're seemingly much more reliable than Ashington's examples.

In fairness Durham is the outlier here, they were only shipped out of Darlington as the local MP was sick of the reliability problems there, they're awful at Ashington and they're even worse at Whitby where there's 1/5 for a PVR of 2 on the road today and that stopped tracking at 9.20am so could very likely be joining the other 4.

Not to mention the Enviro 200's have been filling in for them for ages now, when they used to be used more. They're shot and need removing asap imo.

Mind it'll be interesting if they go to the scrapyard or end up going to Arriva's dumping ground of Kent / Essex to see off 19 year old MPD's down there.