(25 Sep 2025, 7:07 pm)Storx wrote 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.
It’s been posted there are 60 new diesels arriving over the next year or so. Add the electrics of:
14x Blyth
14x Durham
21x Darlington
Brings the total of new vehicles to 109.
Obviously minus any cascades out of the fleet (potentially 14x E200) shows you how many will be withdrawn.