(15 Jul 2025, 9:26 pm)L469 YVK wrote 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!
What people are trying to say is that you talk about this constantly, even when it's barely relevant.