(Yesterday, 10:00 pm)L469 YVK wrote But surely the Cobalt or 56 B9TLs would be perfect on the likes of the X20, 16/16A, X5/X15.

I get the 51/52/93/94 would also be suited to StreetDecks, but the current B9TLs are massively overkill on the 56, 307/309. And they're in pretty good condition for their age too.

If the 307/309 ended up with StreetDecks, you'd have:

StreetDeck:
- 307 (PVR 6), 309 (PVR 8) + 3x Percy Main spares

B9TL:
- 6101-07 - X20
- 6108-17 - 16/16A (PVR 8) + 2x Consett Spares

B5TL:
- 6308-14 - X45 (PVR 5) + 2x Consett Spares

E400MMC:
- 6336-51 - X30s/X70s (PVR 12) + 4x Consett Spares

If Consett didn't have too many deckers off the road at the same time, would potentially have enough to also cover the X5/X15 (PVR 4) using a mix of B5TL/B9TL/E400MMC

It's not uncommon knowledge that GNE tried to improve fuel economy on 6085-6117 with the GKN mods.

See if you wanted to tidy stuff up, I'd be looking at outside the region. Like Brighton is due another 16 electric vehicles soon at their Conway depot which is replacing 17/67 Plate Streetdeck's.

Personally from a group level, I'd be looking at sending them somewhere like the North East which in return will send the 7 B5TL's to somewhere which has B5's to get shot of a microfleet here and try and tidy stuff up.

I'd also be doing the same thing locally there's currently depots with like 3 random vehicles where everything else is the same.

Like ideally I'd be looking for

Consett: E400/E400MMC
Deptford: B9TL
Percy Main: B9TL
Washington: Streetdeck
Riverside: Streetdeck/B9TL/E400MMC

It's not hard to achieve really, or close to it anyway, with some tinkering around and would massively help depots out like Blyth who can keep there ancient DB300's on the road as they're like bread and butter to them. It's probably one reason why Percy Main do better as they only have limited vehicle types to deal with right now Streetlite's and B9TL's rather than the stupid numbers elsewhere - especially Riverside and Consett.