(15 Feb 2024, 7:42 am)RobinHood wrote From what I have heard, 7578, 7579, 7580 and 7581 are all planned to permanently transfer to Redcar at Easter, with the B7s going to scrap.
It requires the E300s to all go into service at Darlington first, to kick off a regionwide cascade plan, but apparently it's been approved and depot managers are aware.
Interesting. If that’s the case they should transfer over 7575 & 7576 as there the 2 which proved themselves last summer that they can cope with the route. People say if the bus is the same it doesn’t matter. It actually does matter as some buses in certain batches actually perform differently. It’s strange but that’s how it goes in the engineering world that you will have a few bad apples in a big batch of great ones. Also just realized that you said them 4 will be replacing Redcars 3? To be fair Redcar does need spare deckers
The E300s soo far have been a waste of time. 1351 still operating but has been having some issues. People say 1355 might not return and is sat at Stockton going for scrap and the rest are still sat in Durham depot needing whatever done to them plus some mots.