(26 Aug 2023, 11:01 pm)Storx wrote Why should Arriva Northumbria bail out Arriva Yorkshire's (maintenance) or Arriva North East (operating area) problems. It's all one area now, send the crap down to Leeds not up here. Ashington needs the MMC's for the X14/X15/X18/X20, they don't need the crap back they've just got rid of rightfully and using 6 year old MMC's and downgrading a flagship route when there's a brand new train line opening in 12 months isn't the answer either.Still going to be impacted regardless whether there's new vehicles. X21 will suffer especially around the Bedlington Station area.....but if Arriva could somehow work out how to avoid Nedderton, they could still win passengers heading to Gosforth and the more Northernly parts of the City Centre around Haymarket as Central Station will be at least a 15 minute walk.
Let them break their own buses.
Getting back to topic......as for the X93/X94 though, it's a hard one to invest due to the seasonal nature of the route. Best time to have taken the B9TLs off would've been around 2020/21 when they still would've served some purpose and been fairly good on the X14/X20.
Unless Arriva are waiting to see how things play out at Blyth and if can still make money despite the ABTRL, maybe a large StreetDeck order with some 6-Cylinder examples thrown in for the X93/X94.