RE: Arriva State of The Fleet
I’ve said it before but it is a shame that the ex Whitby P&R DB300s could have not have retuned and be modded and reintegrated to the Blyth fleet – as while the 59 plate DB300s at Blyth are looking worn out (I doubt they were given northing more than the very bare minimum TLC), they continue to press on with their duties and have aged far more gracefully than their Pulsar counterparts and especially the E400s of the same era, and probably have a few years of life left in them, and prevented a few peak time Newcastle boards from being overcrowded. I guess the Euro 6 conversion is not worth their book value. Perhaps it is a cautionary tale if a couple of the 16 plate E400mmc’s take over their duties but remain out of sync with future mods on the rest of the fleet.