(13 Sep 2025, 11:21 am)Storx wrote 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.

I understand that is what they are hoping to do - Darlington are desperately in need of additional deckers anyway now, with additional boards having been changed to deckers in recent months. Would also allow for the majority of their 09 plate Pulsars to be withdrawn before the end of next year (the electrics for the 2 will see some withdrawn then).
With the repainting program due to resume soon with a dedicated pool of Float vehicles (in the form of 6 Pulsars from Redcar - who have been operating with too many spare buses for sometime now), those vehicles due for withdrawn with the arrival of the Electric vehicles will become more clear as anything due to be withdrawn soon will not be repainted.