(04 Dec 2025, 8:48 pm)ReDemPTiion wrote Work at Slatyford depot for the electric chargers is due to commence on the 16th December. I’d imagine it’ll still be a good few months before all 18 Yutongs are in service on the 30/31/36 but it’ll be interesting to see how they manage them. There’s no way they’ll be able to manage early morning to late night, there will be no spares to swap them over etc.
There will more than likely be a re-working of the 30/31/36 boards at your next rota change to move towards a similar set-up to Sunderland's Es and all of Stockton's boards - whereby buses aren't out from early morning until late evening anymore. Stockton changed to this form of working last autumn with backshift drivers now mainly have breaks at the depot and taking a bus from the yard for their back half of driving (not always the originally allocated bus for that board either during the week - Sundays it's a different story as only a handful of late turns have fresh buses come from the depot, the majority on Sundays stay out from start of service until end of service).