(10 Oct 2025, 11:45 am)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.
(10 Oct 2025, 10:49 am)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.