(3 hours ago)Storx wrote tbf, the DB300's are still a rock up here aswell if you ask me, absolute workhorses considering they're all out 7 days a week from 5am - 12am which ironically can't be said about the new electrics which are in bed by 7pm every night - does anyone actually know the reason for this?
It's wild speculation this, but I have a feeling you's might benefit from some of the Merseyside cascades. Unless something changes and Merseytravel start buying the old fleets then everything is leaving.
There's 50x E200MMC's and 24x Evora's to go somewhere (plus 19 DF Streetlite's, including the ex X4 ones, but you probably don't want them). Obviously there's all the other divisions fighting for stuff aswell as there's a lot of ancient single deckers around.
Worth noting that the existing E200MMC's allocated on Merseyside are earmarked for Runcorn and the newer Evora's are all due to go to Wales.