(12 Sep 2025, 7:18 pm)Storx wrote 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

Yeah agreed that's there no real need for Pulsars at Blyth anymore, ideally Blyth will get a follow up standardised order of deckers. The current allocation seems to be about 10 deckers and 3 pulsars, so you would hope at least a handful of Pulsars, if not all the 61-plates would go elsewhere or they'll end up displaced onto the expresses. 

It would moreso be Durham's order where I would hope the existing batch of 16 plate MMC's will be displaced around the region rather than being sent off elsewhere. You could send a batch of them to Ashington to displace their traditional E400's and move those over to Blyth to replace the remaining Pulsars and 7557/8/60/2 and actually have some fleet standardisation, but whether that would make too much sense for Arriva idk!