(14 Jul 2025, 11:48 am)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Can you not post this crap somewhere else?  It's got nothing to do with actual service changes, and just more of the same old obsession with low height deckers at Consett.

It has indeed.......

GNE are currently relying on 12x low height deckers with 2x spare (not including patchy and some unreliable ex demos 6336/6337). The suggested timetable proves that GNE could run the same set of services reliably and with decent layovers - with a low height PVR of 8x instead of 12x and no changes to the routes.

Operationally, the current X30/X31/X32 and X70/X71/X73 interworkings cause challenges in the event that GNE have to scramble to allocate a StreetLite / E200MMC or cancel runs if no suitable vehicles available. Reducing the low height PVR to 8x would help this - also allowing full height deckers to be used on the X32 & X73.

Then there's the issue of remote reliefs in Stanley too. The suggested interworkings would erradicate this during Mondays to Saturdays with most driver reliefs happening in Consett.

On a final note, it makes sense that the E400MMC stay at Consett - although an extra 2x to Riverside would help things massively on the X10 instead of StreetDecks pulled from the 21/X21 screaming their lungs off down the A19!