(5 hours ago)the Glen1974 wrote So are still keeping 83000 then
I think stockton should keep 83000 at stockton depot there have 2 double deckers like us to.
It would be good to keep both deckers but at the moment if they having to make a choice it will likely be the brand new Yutong 83000 that will be leaving as the priority will be having a bus that is suitable for the contract so 8000 seems the most likely to be staying. If they wanted to deckers that’s capable of doing the contract then it looks like 83000 might have to be swapped with another electric decker from elsewhere. This really should have been checked when doing the order though.
Saying that though Hartlepool seems to have got away with using darts and E200s on the UTC when I thought that was meant to be a decker as well so god knows what will happen here. If some of the enviro 300s are going to be spare soon with more yutongs arriving at Sunderland and Newcastle then hopefully Hartlepool can get them to improve the fleet here, the current fleet is still struggling on E200s quite a few of the 360 and 364s are not exactly sounding to healthy.