(11 hours ago)Storx wrote Imo if your looking at buses to down Whitby way I'd be looking at restoring the X60 instead from Newcastle going the opposite way, even if it followed the X12 route via Durham.
If you were clever you could run it from one of the Northumbria depots and swap the E400MMC's around so they're not getting rattled on the X93/X94 24/7 and give them a longer life.
Would solve the issue for Stockton only being to do minor works on Decker's aswell.
Apart from the depots being on different licences meaning you’d have to have the vehicle with ‘on hire’ constantly - and the likelihood of there being any Arriva Northumbria depots in a few years time means it is pointless. Indeed, the reason the X60 and X61 were binned 14 years ago was down to them being pensioner expresses therefore too costly to operate.