(12 Oct 2024, 10:21 am)L469 YVK wrote The B9TL's wouldn't be anymore unreliable than the oldest DB300's & Classic E400 at Blyth. They'd definitely handle the 306/308 and 43/44/45 okay.
GNE are still using 6043-48 up / down the hills everyday from Derwentside on the 47 despite them being flogged to death for five years on the A19 and then used on the 10/10A/10B, still having to cover for 6308-14 on the X9/X10.
Saying that.....is there not a way Arriva could keep all the E400MMC's together in Northumbria including the ex Kent examples, with classic E400's going to Durham & Tees?
They'd 100% be worse mind. One of them hasn't moved an inch in years literally.
I'd say try and get most the E400MMC's together. Wherever the B9's go are going to be a nuisance though as they're just crap now. Imo they'd be better elsewhere out the area with the rest of them with Arriva in the Midlands or Kent.