(08 Jun 2014, 4:32 pm)Kuyoyo wrote Depots - One overall Manager, and an engineering manager
Head Office - 3 separate management teams (Commercial, Marketing and Engineering)

The engineering manager at Darlington should have informed the engineering management team in Head Office and informed them in advance that one of their vehicles which was due to move to another depot was under repair. Head Office could have then made the decision as to the action that should be taken.

It shouldn't be at the discretion of a depot to accept or turn away a specific vehicle. Accepting it obviously would have caused problems for Belmont (hence obvious rejection), and rejecting it means that they've gone against management (completely understand aureolin and citaro5284 from that perspective).

As an outsider (with little knowledge) looking in, it seems to me like Darlo may have been hoping they could palm it off onto Belmont so they could fix it instead.