(12 Nov 2023, 2:51 pm)Storx wrote Aye see my thinking was more about actually getting them. I'm not sure the X93/X94 alone would have the power to get new buses. They basically had to beg to get the B9's for it and that was during a time we were seeing massive investment for the area.

Think it was more with them being 'dealer stock' plus getting good discounts and being known vehicles at the time to handle such route.

Shame they weren't replaced back when 5 year old as they would've done for the X14/X20 with Euro 6 mods....but they're a bit long in the tooth now for that sort of work! Probably had the hardest lives out of all the B9TLs in the North East closely followed by 6043-48.