(Yesterday, 12:55 pm)Superman wrote 1415, 1441 and 1443 are heading to Ashington mainly to keep services running, not just for repaint cover (though they’ll also stand in for the Blyth vehicles due to be repainted by the end of the year). Ashington’s in a bit of a mess right now with engineering problems, so managers from other depots are stepping in to help get things back on track.

They've been shocking for a significant amount of time now, it's a disgrace that it has taken this long for anything to be done about it. I posted on here earlier in the summer about some specific vehicles as examples of their engineering incompetence, so I find it mental that staff at the company haven't noticed the same things until now. The depot manager clearly has no standards, or oversight - which begs the question if they are in the role on merit or due to nepotism. 

Yesterday was a prime example of the incompetence across the board at that depot, single deckers allocated to the first few buses after the Newcastle match on the X21/22 and 1497 was pulled from service before even making it to Haymarket leaving a one hour gap in X21s. They're killing their busiest services through sheer ineptitude.