(06 Oct 2023, 8:39 pm)Busu284 wrote The 57/57A does need a different allocations but I've on some occasions not seen it busy enough to warrant a service. Its possible with the 57A to Ashington making more passengers. Who knows they might get a new allocation in November but who knows

I wouldn't even say it needs bigger buses, it just needs something that works.

It's almost like it's turned into a game of how many pieces of junk can we send from Darlington to attempt to run it because the same thing is happening over and over again.

2830 - Withdrawn
2837 - Withdrawn (Ignoring age, not sure why as it was better than the rest)
2852 - Working
2853 - Working but falling apart
2854 - VOR
2855 - Engine Blown (Withdrawn)
2856 - Overheating Problems (Withdrawn)
2859 - VOR and seriously unreliable, unless it changes fast no doubt be joining 2855 and 2856 soon as it's managed about 4 days on the 57/57A so far.

That's within a year and it was very much the same before the Enviro 200 MMC's came for a couple of month, bar 1800/1801 ancient Darts were still around which credit to them were little workhorses.