(Yesterday, 8:09 pm)WestDurhamSwift wrote Withdrawing Versas, Omnidekkas & all the hybrids (some still sitting at Consett) - Because they were 'unreliable'.

Madness.

(Yesterday, 9:19 pm)nova347 wrote Yep, they're withdrawing the berries. Not to mention that they were old but upgraded the Omnicity's to Euro 6 to scrap them off. I heard loads about Consett cancellations have been bad too. 

A few Deptford early morning services haven't run recently either.

In fairness, can't really blame the withdrawal of vehicles, they should have been really. No-one is going to have enough buses to cover 20+ buses off the road at a depot - that's the real problem.

Riverside isn't much better with their Streetdeck's but it appears the E400's and B9's are starting to play up a bit now there aswell now. Usual cavaets aside with BusTimes there appears to be 28 buses which have been pulled off service or not ran at all today aswell there. That's 50 buses between two depots, crazy numbers.

There's something very wrong with the maintenance, whether it's lack of staff, budgets cuts or a combination of both then who knows.