(15 Sep 2025, 8:09 pm)Malarkey wrote I've never felt the 51/52/93/94 has ever needed Double Deckers other than at Peak Times when existing frequencies are not enough to cope with the demand, certainly would be better suited to Single Deckers with the odd Double Decker added into the Peaks for me, Go North East really need to order some New Single Deckers to cover the 49/49A/51/52/57/67/69/93/94 & 96.

Personally whilst reliability isn't the greatest on these Angel Streetdeck's perhaps once the Electroliners arrive get them off the road and give them some much needed Mechanical TLC/Repainted. I'd place some of them onto the The Crusader 27 replacing the B9's as these are approaching 14 Years Old and should be taking a back seat within the operational fleet, the others I would send to Washington to cover additional PVR for the October Changes with the proposed Service 14/50 Interworking Pattern.

Sorry didn't reply, thought I did. 

Must admit I don't know those routes too well, but wonder if an mixed allocation would work on it? I'm surprised there hasn't been more of it yet as Feetham had loads of routes doing it under his watch at Arriva; the X7/X8, 306, 6 (Durham), 7 (Durham), 22/23/24, just to name some. 

Now that everything isn't painted in magical colours it should be easier to do as I'm sure there's a few routes which could easily fit that bill; the 50, these routes and 301 being three instantly coming to mind. 

I seen someone mention the 301 above, maybe they could be split between the 50/51/52/93/94/301(X39) with the rest of the boards being Streetlite's being displaced out of Percy Main in the opposite direction. They're all 16/66/17/67 plate so a similar age to each other.