(17 Feb 2026, 10:21 pm)ReDemPTiion wrote There’s something going on at Slatyford. No recent repaints in 3 months the last being 36472. A lot of Hartlepools buses are being painted and older than Slatyford’s! Yes 27727 got repainted the other day but they’ve sent it to South Shields and it’s now showing on the internal fleet list as a South Shields bus. Sending buses out with odd panels, messy livery’s. 26068 been off the road almost a year now 25th February 2025 needed a new engine, doesn’t take a year to fit an engine! 26063 been off the road since November 8th had new panels fitted then colour matched with Beachball and now sitting around doing nothing. Chargers going in on the back yard for the 30/31/36 E12’s then the shed is coming down, for more chargers? Who knows! It looks like it’s heading that way. Buses being left to decline constantly, why invest in them if they’re planning to replace them. People might think I’m crazy for thinking this but it genuinely makes sense. They can then send all of Slatyford’s MMC’s to Walkergate replace the 58/60 plate E400’s and maybe the 26***’s to Walkergate to replace the 11 plate E300’s
I couldn’t agree with this more. Slatyford is going down hill everyday there’s more and more buses of the road now we have lost 10640 for go knows how long so we are probably going to need another bus from walkergate. Really walkergates mmcs should go Slatyford and Slatyfords to walkergate. The 685 is killing the 262s and the 6/7 nearly everyday a bus breaks down on 685 106s are really struggling e200s are rubbish nothing about them at all e200mmcs are slow as they really need to do something about it
(17 Feb 2026, 11:21 pm)Busesinnewcastle wrote I couldn’t agree with this more. Slatyford is going down hill everyday there’s more and more buses of the road now we have lost 10640 for go knows how long so we are probably going to need another bus from walkergate. Really walkergates mmcs should go Slatyford and Slatyfords to walkergate. The 685 is killing the 262s and the 6/7 nearly everyday a bus breaks down on 685 106s are really struggling e200s are rubbish nothing about them at all e200mmcs are slow as they really need to do something about it
Plus 26289 has been of the road since 17th January and 26292 been of the road since 31st January