(01 Apr 2025, 6:38 pm)Arriva7446 wrote They currently have 3 Enviro 400 MMC on loan at Washington, along with 6 Enviro 200 MMC, these are all on loan for the next 2 - 3 months. Hopefully giving them time to sort out issues with vehicle shortages which have gone on over the last few months. 

Shame they aren't buying them permanently. Would be ideal for X21, and they could then transfer the 20 plate streetdecks to Washington to go with rest of batch there.

Would be very easy to sort Riverside's issues out on the X10 & X21 if GNE woke up and realised Whickham & Dunston don't need three buses per hour which is more than double the pre Nov 2019 capacity! Would also save a lot of the remote reliefs in Stanley too.

Definitely do-able! Only minor route change would be X70 via Lobley Hill Estate instead of X32.

If Angel StreetDecks end up on the Cobalts or 56, some B9TL's on X20.......then use 6308-14 & 6356-63 on X32/X45/X70/X73. 

Then bar x6 E400MMC kept at Consett for the X30/X71 (low height PVR of x4 with x2 spare), the rest go to Riverside for the X10 & X21 with mixed use on both services.



GNE could even transfer the X30/X71 to Riverside with 1 X21 board per hour interworking with the X30/X71, allowing reliefs / meal breaks in Gateshead. That would keep all the E400MMC together. 

Driver 1 - GHD > WA > GHD
Driver 2 - GHD > NCL > CON > NCL > STA > NCL > GHD

Then with something temporary on the X66 until EV's arrive, all E200MMC to Consett with Consett regaining the 12 which would interwork with the 6.