(09 Jun 2025, 1:21 pm)Michael wrote All timetable changes apart from the 301/A, which has the route change (changes at the metrocentre).

GNE are mad keeping the X30/X70 interworking patterns the way they are if so!

I can get why they probably don't want to risk sending StreetDecks onto some of the steep climbs and would rather keep the power of the E400MMC in Derwentside. Maybe GNE will be better (if rumour is true about the 56) using less leggy B9TLs to address some of the shortfalls for things like the X21 and X10 spares.

But GNE at the moment have to race around for a StreetLite / E200MMC if no E400MMC are available.....and are quite lucky the Euro 5 Cummins engined StreetLites are exempt from the clean air zone!

Surely it would be a hell of a lot easier from an engineering POV if GNE could on all bar x4 boards, swap out for a full height decker.