(13 Sep 2025, 8:47 am)peter wrote 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!

Yeah can't disagree tbh. Blyth badly needs more really as the 59 Gemini's are tired as an understatement nowadays aswell.

Mind that said I wouldn't be surprised to see something turn up at Ashington as they're struggling with the fleet lately since they lost some of the newer E400MMC's which in turn will displace more of those down to Whitby to sort out the X93 issue finally.

I think the 16 Plates will just stay around Durham / Darlington though to get rid of the 09 Plate E400's tbh and just give some much needed upgrades on other routes with deckers, ie. 1/5/6/7/22/23/24 which have boards which could do with them. You could even upgrade something like the X66/X67 possibly either as they have them on a lot recently.