(31 May 2026, 11:48 am)citaro5284 wrote And do you honestly see that happening - as I most certainly dont!
Personally I don't really understand why they need them, at all. They should've just sent 10 new E400MMC's to Whitby and 8 of them can do the X93/X94 and the other 2 on the school buses.
The X93/X94 can easily cope with a single on some boards outside the holidays and weekends.
Once you take out weekends, the 12 weeks the kids are off school (Summer / Easter / October + 2 Half Terms) and the months it's in a winter timetable anyway there's not a hell of a lot left really. I really don't understand why'd you want buses of a mixed age on a hard route anyway, even known they're only 4 years but it's a big difference on a route like that.