(25 Sep 2025, 7:02 pm)peter wrote Agree 100% on that list of cascades, not sure what the official allocation ratio of deckers to singles is on the 43/44/45, or was when they were ordered but that would make the most sense. E400's for the scrap man and send those Pulsar's to Stockton/Redcar to start replacing the older examples. 

When it comes to the 58/09 E400's you'd argue if you're gonna have a 15+ year old bus you'd rather have a decker than a pulsar, so you'd hope they won't go until after the 09 Pulsars do.

Yeah agreed, to be honest, I'd be tempted to send them to Ashington and withdraw 1394-1399/1404 either as there's not much chance of the 1/2/57/57A getting anything new, I can't remember the 2/57/57A or their previous carnations ever getting anything new, ever, and I'm not counting the Vario's that were stored in a field. 

By all the rumours going around it seems like there's a lot of Pulsar's on the chopping block and putting 2+2 together, the fact the 09/10 Plates are 'paint floats' which need painting thereselves I'm going to put my neck on the line and say that most vehicles 09/59/10 Plate are on borrowed time but that is a big assumption. I'm sure we'll learn soon enough though when things aren't getting repainted.

Edit some quick maths if the 60 vehicles excluding electrics rumour is true.

60+ Mystery Buses
8/9 Electrics for the 2 (forgot which)
14 Electrics for Durham (7 E400's to go)
5 From Blyth

That's not a kick in teeth away from that either as a very quick count I get 83 Pulsars 10 Plate or older with/without Blyth's tbh.