(16 Oct 2024, 8:07 am)L469 YVK wrote Would it not have been better sending them to Ashington & Blyth with most of the newer classic E400s (14/64/15 reg) going to Durham in turn?
Surely it would make more sense keeping all the E400MMC together in Northumbria.

Durham needs newer stock too, can’t just keep sending Northumbria's oldest stock there. 

Equally, the remaining 2014-5 E400s in Northumbria have had a particularly hard life and are now generally used on more relaxed work. 

Obviously Blyth don’t have any MMCs, so I’m not sure on the benefit of that over the E400s they currently have? Redcar have MMCs, so it’s not as if there aren’t any south of the Tyne.