(11 Nov 2023, 11:47 pm)mb134 wrote Stagecoach up there now are poor as well. Maintenance is shockingly bad, they've had 2 E400s (19215 and 19378 I believe) up in flames this year alone, and members of the same batch up in flames in recent years too (19212 and 19373, which has had multiple).  https://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberd...re-8867759. 

You'd think investment in replacing the remaining B7TLs would be priority, then the Temsas? Sort those out and you're making decent inroads. Some new deckers for Blyth and the DB300s can retire onto the likes of the 43 and X46 at Durham.

Shame to see up there, to be honest. Used always to be quite ahead especially for the size of the city.

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Yeah totally agreed, investing in some singles for the X4/5/5A at Stockton and Redcar would go a long way in getting arid of most of the Temsa's as they're desperate for something better, then a batch of deckers and/or singles - probably a mix for Darlington to replace their Streetlites on the 1/5 and 6 at Durham and move the Streetlite's to Ashington to replace the Pulsars then upgrade other routes such as the 2 at Darlington, 63 at Redcar, 8/9 at Stockton, 15 at Stockton to pick a few that could be done. They all definitely deserve an upgrade with the Pulsars going onto the X2/X3/64 at Redcar.

Would make a good innings at getting arid of everything for a few year and give a few flagship routes some much needed investment which they desperately need. Could start making inroads on the 09 Pulsars which some are looking extremely tired aswell and would give everyone a share for some investment.