(11 hours ago)ReDemPTiion wrote What is the actual point of 19680 being at Hartlepool? Every day it does the 8:17 1 to Middlesbrough and then the 9:43 1 to Hartlepool and gets changed on that trip to an E200 and then doesn’t come back out until the day after. What a waste of a double deck bus!
Its here for a reason to act as a reserve for Stockton if anything happens to there electric decker but can be used on Hartlepool’s own services.
(10 hours ago)Coastliner700 wrote Meanwhile you have unsuitable E200s on main Slatyford routes and unsuitable E300s on Walkergate routes!
Yet Hartlepool has nothing but E200s and the 7 often gets packed leaving the Headland or Owton Manor. The 1 is often packed leaving Middlesbrough so at least Newcastle has a fleet of full size buses and deckers other than 1 double decker which as I have said is mainly here to act as a reserve for Stockton Hartlepool is expected to make do a fleet of mostly knackered E200s so I wouldn’t complain to much.