(Yesterday, 9:32 pm)Malarkey wrote Ones at Consett seem to be split between 47/X45 with no confirmation which service they're actually meant to be allocated to. 

There is only 4 at Riverside which are 6397-6400 that are being allocated here, there and everywhere at the moment.

It would make sense at this point to put them on the X10 with 6377 as a spare, then have 6348-6355 on the X21.

The only thing there is that there'd be no spare low bridge deckers for the X30/X70 boards unless some surplus E200MMC were put on the quieter boards.

However, if GNE did the following longer term:

- X32 re-routed to serve Shield Row and interwork with X73 - total PVR 4

- X30 evening & Sunday only (or swap route numbers around with the daytime X32 - to keep both the X32/X72 evening & Sunday only services)

- X31 up to 2bph

- X31/X70/X71 all interwork with a PVR of 8

That would reduce the low height decker requirement to 8x. No major changes other than East Stanley losing the Gateshead link although Annfield Plain & Catchgate would benefit.