(28 Jan 2024, 12:12 am)mb134 wrote I honestly don't think it is. They might be able to do the route, but capacity wise they aren't enough during the summer unless you go for a double deck variant which will be prohibitively expensive. At the point of a normal coach, you may as well get a heavy duty single deck (such as a B8RLE) which has the benefit of allowing standees.
I think a batch of E400s would be the best bet, until an EV has enough range to do it.
Aye that's true about capacity. Mind be interesting to see how the B8's would do considering in theory they're a worse engine than what they've got now and they're all blown to pieces already.
Then again you could probably give them a 20L engine and they'll still break since the issue isn't the buses and it's partly Redcar's fantastic engineering.