(26 Feb 2025, 11:24 am)Storx wrote That's already happened with Consett hasn't it? Was done the same time that CLS was closed.

Mind if you wanted to save some money from it, maybe you could only have one depot open and just have the buses swapped out in the late evening. Every depot has a bus service which heads towards Newcastle, in the evening, so it wouldn't be too difficult to do from Riverside or Saltmeadows really.

Would save money from having multiple depots open in the evening.

I don't think it would save money as you'd still need to recruit a swathe of engineers to work at whichever depot being used to outsource the work, as well as the operational headache of trying to allocate buses to operate on the nearest route to that depot in an attempt to eliminate any additional lost mileage.

Keeping depots open in the evening is a quite sensible decision to take, from both an operational and engineering perspective. The PVR is reduced so, theoretically, it becomes easier to swap vehicles at bus stations for drivers to take back to the depot, and engineers can catch them upon their return to address faults and perform routine maintenance. So it makes more sense to keep multiple depots open in the evening, rather than trying to cram everything into one, where pits or ramps may not be available to do any work required.