(14 Aug 2024, 7:40 am)Storx wrote Must say the Solo's at Ashington, again, are becoming a bit of a joke. Now down to 2/7 of them of the road after the last of the 59 heaps broke down last night (again).
Feel sorry for Ashington in actually having to deal with these things, it's lucky the X21/X22 are down to every 30 minutes currently otherwise they'd not have enough buses since the 57/57A is a full saloon/decker allocation today.
Urgently need replacing, same with the 3 sheds at Whitby which seem just as bad. I probably wouldn't be moaning as much if they hadn't replaced unreliable Solo's in the past with new buses which were fine with unreliable Solo's.
As you and others discussed on the GNE sister threat to this, perhaps a shortage of spare parts may explain why 5 of them are out of service (it is a shame that the 2 in service are the nasty baby 61 plate ones that always end up on the 57/57a). I can only hope that by the time spares come available, the book value of them does not justify fixing them, and they are sent on a long overdue one way trip to Alpha.