(Yesterday, 12:59 am)col87 wrote This is also the reason why I think it was a mistake going completely electric as well. I think they is at least 2 off the road again due to repeated vandalism as well so that will put it down to about 2 spares which means 360s and 364s from Hartlepool will be needed at Stockton due to not having enough buses, I think 36089 might still be at Stockton so that will likely have to be used again, which is then putting pressure on Hartlepool because then it’s a struggle to have enough working buses for the services here. I actually don’t think it will be a bad idea for one of the larger depots to have say 6-10 buses there to be used as floating buses for any emergency’s which can be quickly put into service at any of the depots as and when needed, instead of having to constantly borrow off each other.
Except there's currently no Hartlepool vehicles on-loan at Stockton - indeed, one of the E200s has been parked at Stockton recently but that's partly down to the fact Stockton's Engineering Team are currently doing work to vehicles from other depots due to the fact there's less work for them to do now the Yutongs are all in use.
The 'Stockton not having enough buses' is exactly what the engineering manger raised issue with - the increase in vandalism obviously doesn't help matter (and also another reason why 80000 hasn't seen much use on service work outside of covering trips - also due to it having a window put out when it was used on Route Learning in the summer, although that wasn't due to mindless vandalism).