(24 Feb 2025, 3:03 pm)L469 YVK wrote Not gonna lie, I hope they're around until then as still nice to ride on. But they're heavy on the fuel for the likes of the 307/309 and even the 56 hence why GNE tried retrofitting GKN mods back in 2015.

Percy Main asides from the misc work, could get away (with some TLC) with running a StreetDeck & StreetLite operation on frontline work.

They're better being on the Coast Road though, than pottering around on Gateshead on the 51/52/93/94 though which is an alternative, at least they have some 60 mph running. The whole of the 51/52/93/94 route is 30 mph, unless I've missed somewhere or it's some very short stretch of 40 mph somewhere.