(Yesterday, 9:55 pm)L469 YVK wrote Would it not be better keeping Washington all StreetDeck though?
Don't know how the exact numbers would work, but I'd maybe go something like this - again although exact numbers don't match up.
- B5TLs to Percy Main for 307 - 309 still B9TL operated though
- 8x Cobalt B9TLs to Riverside for X21
- 6356-76 at Washington for 14/50/X1
Any surplus Angel StreetDecks not used on the Coaster and 6301-07 make up the spares at Percy Main & Washington.
The 307 is p*** easy work IMO, and the B5TLs given their track record handling more difficult work would be well suited to pottering around on the 307
It's not what I expect will happen but if I had a choice I'd move the B5TL's to Riverside for 58 and move the 62 Plate B9TL's to Washington for the 50.
The Streetdecks are never on the 50 nowadays anyway and would be a decent upgrade over the 07 B9TL's on there currently.
The B5TL's then leaving the North East to somewhere who might be able to keep them on the road for longer than a week once the 58 electrics turn up, with a few extra Streetdeck's at Washington to formally, on paper at least, meaning there's enough Streetdeck's for the 14/50/X1 with the Streetlite's displaced out of Percy Main also heading across and getting rid of the Versa's and Merc's.
The B5TL's and Mercs are just microfleets and expensive ones aswell, they'd be better away imo.