When Arriva closed down Peterlee depot and used it for storage, I contacted the MD at GNE at the time, asking to see if GNE would purchase the depot from Arriva and use the depot for housing the East Durham Brand, WTX, TTX, Fast cats X35, and also some buses for the 60/61 services with their services starting and finishing at Peterlee on early morning and late journeys. But GNE was in content to share the peterlee site with the east durham community bus service, and have the buses still maintained at Deptford, but their looking to see what the fallout was after Arriva adjusted their bus services since the closure of the depot, which really wasn't that much as service 26 was cancelled and replaced by service 21/21A from Thornley to Wingate, and secured service 239 which went into GNE hands.
If GNE also did at the time transfer the operations of the 56 to Riverside with the loss of the TTX, then Deptford would of had the room to move the Washington operations over and close the Washington depot down.
RE: Go North East: Latest News & Discussion - February 2015