(17 Sep 2025, 11:48 am)Storx wrote 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.

That was me, i brought it up, because i thought back to the last time the 21 got investment, the Hybrids got displaced on to the 1 (now 301) and lasted like that until the Streetlites got put on there, the 301 though is tempermental, sometimes it needs DD's, but other times its dead