(30 Jan 2026, 5:00 pm)Malarkey wrote Short on Euro 6 spares as they cannot use Ex Lothian and Ex First Manchester/GNW B9's on Services which operate into Newcastle as they will be charged. 

Would explain a lot as to why the Durham Diamond E400's often escape doing the 16's, things will settle down once the new Ultroliners/Electroliners all enter service and cascades have occurred.

No doubt the Cityrider Gemini's will end up on the X5/X15 and 16/16A with 2x spare which can also be used on the X45/47 if needed.

Will be interesting to see what happens with the X21 though with 2x needed for Deptford. Something telling me will be 6352-55 with some E400MMC additionally moving from Consett - in return for some X30/X70 boards going single deck with the current X66 E200MMCs.

Then for the 6x X21 StreetDecks, they do the X45/47 on the basis they get parked up on a Sunday.