(04 Feb 2025, 5:30 pm)WestDurhamSwift wrote Are the electric deckers still set to arrive soon? I’d assume many of the available StreetDecks—at least the ones in working condition—will replace some of the former Manchester, Edinburgh, and Yorkshire Geminis currently running on front line services. Or at least I hope so.Most likely the paintshop for a spray of orange (56) or blue/silver (307/309). Both routes previously earmarked for (failed) GKN mods on B9TLs to save fuel.
My money is the latter as it would keep pretty much all of Percy Main's frontline service work either StreetLite or StreetDeck.
Got to remember as well (especially Percy Main's) that 6086-17 are way less leggy and have had easy lives compared to natives 6001-07, 6043-55 and 6071-85. They'd actually do some good for the likes of the X20, X21, 16/16A, X5/X15 depending how GNE divvied them out.