(13 Mar 2014, 5:05 pm)Tom wrote I'm incredibly bored, so here suggestion for cascades:
14 X VDL Pulsar for services 4/X3/X4:
1429-30 Redcar-Durham for services 46 and 48, allowing it to be fully Pulsar operated. 7477/78 would be withdrawn.
1431-32 Redcar-Durham for service 43, allowing it to be fully Pulsar operated. 4519/20 would be transfered to Stockton to replace 4001/06, while 7432/33 would be transferred to Jesmond for the 43/44/45.
1433-40 Redcar-Durham for service 64, replacing 1301-04/1311-15 to replace 1646-7/1649-56 at Darlington/Redcar.
8 X VDL Pulsar for services 5/5A:
4652/54/58/59 Stockton-Ashington for services 20/X20. 7466/68/70/72 withdrawn.
1441/42/43/44 remain at Stockton for use on the 21A, replacing 4007/30/38/39.
8 X VDL Pulsar for service 306:
1497/99/00 Jesmond-Blyth for the Quorum Express. 1401/02/03 would be transferred to Jesmond to replace 4504/07/10 that would go to Stockton to replace 4039/40/43.
1481/82/83/95/96 would replace 4512/14/16/17/18 that would replace 4045/46/48/62/63 at Stockton. 1481/82/83/95/96 would be used on the 52/53.
5 X Wright Streetlite for service 23:
2803/04/05/07/08 to Blyth to replace 1733/42/51 and 1795/96.
Durham Park and Ride Solos:
2852-2857 to Darlington to replace 1712/24/37/47/93/94.
2858-2861 to Whitby to replace 1101/03/04/05.
6 X ADL Enviro 400/8 X ADL Enviro Refurbished for services X21/X22:
4501/02 would be withdrawn and 4505/06/08 to Stockton to replace Prestiges 4069 at Stockton and 4042/4071 at Redcar.
7505 would be used on the 14/X14 to allow it to be fully ADL operated, and therefore replacing 4509 to move to Redcar, to allow 4080 to be withdrawn, the last of the prestiges.
6 X B9 for Coast and Castles service X18:
7453/54/55/56 and 7505/06 remain at Ashington for the 35/35A, allowing 7436/37/38/39/40 to move to Jesmond, and 7475 to replace 7467 at Jesmond to be withdrawn. This would enable 4521 to transfer to Redcar as a spare, with 4522/23 remaining at Jesmond.
All buses in bold would be withdrawn.
Very wrong, for a start the Sapphire Vehicles and the ones for the 23 are Streetlite Maxs. The vehicles leaving Redcar are Temsas not Pulsars (with 2 Streetlites replacing 2 of the DAF SB220s). Stockton are losing Prestiges only, the OmniCitys are staying at Stockton (20/X20 should be going low floor once the B7TLs enter service). The only DAF DB250s being replaced this year are the T-FGNs at Durham. All the B10BLEs will be moving south later this year (I understand at present the plan is that Redcar will gain the ALX300s plus 3 of the Wright-bodied examples while Stockton gain the remaining Wright-bodied examples).