(Yesterday, 12:15 am)Jimmi wrote Not sure if the 7 to Yarm would still be suitable to use a smaller bus as it's been Solo/MPD worked in the past.
The only other one which comes to mind for possible use is Ashington for the 434 and the 415/460 on a Saturday.
Pretty much everything now needs something larger than those E200MMCs.
We're still over a year away yet from Darlington's new electrics arriving, so who knows what will be needed for what and where this time next year, most of the Tees Valley supported services are now supported into next year, unsure how DalesBus would work next year for Darlington if all the E200MMCs departed from there as electrics likely won't be suitable for range on those routes, unless they went back to using the 67 plate StreetLite's again.
Yeah the 7 was the route I was thinking about but not sure either.
Deep down though I do think they'll end up down in Kent. They've still got 04 Plate MPD's in use which they'll probably want to get shot of.
Obviously doesn't do much for up here but there's been a lot of similar orders lately like the Evoras at Redcar seeing out midlife Streetlite's to Liverpool, the electrics in Leicester displacing the 72 Plate MMC's to Leeds, the brand new E400's to Kent sending their 16 Plate examples to Durham, similar Evora swap down in Luton and so on.