(12 Sep 2025, 3:41 pm)peter wrote The order was originally placed for the 43/44/45 when the PVR was 13, and the single decker was for the 47 Newcastle-Hospital shuttle which ran with 1499. When Jesmond closed the 47 was adopted into the 43/44/45 interworking pattern and the PVR increased to 14. Of course the 47 was eventually dropped but the PVR for the 43/44/45 now remains at 14. Obviously somewhere along the line they were able to amend the order for the 14th bus to be a DD to reflect these changes. 

Will be interesting to see what this and the Durham batch displaces, presumably 7501-7/9, and perhaps 7557/8/60/2 and 7514-16/18-21 or I wonder whether they would prioritise getting rid of older Pulsars first before the deckers.

Be very surprised if 7514-16/18-21 leave personally. You have to remember that 7557/8/60/2 were the 306 allocation not the 43/44/45 when they were at Jesmond.

In an ideal world Blyth needs to be Pulsar free, bar the 553, as they're just a headache really because of all the interworking that goes on nowadays which results in them ending up on peak X10/X11 boards most days when things start getting swapped around which is less than ideal, as an understatement