(23 Nov 2025, 4:23 pm)Bob5666 wrote 1499 is in a terbble state fair worst than i have seen anywhere else in the north east

Yeah it is. All cushions old and scruffy and collapsed. Needs new cushions.

(23 Nov 2025, 7:59 pm)Arriva7446 wrote Yeah it is. All cushions old and scruffy and collapsed. Needs new cushions.

For a bus which is almost exclusively used on a hospital contract, which staff are encouraged to use to commute, it’s an absolute disgrace. 

Multiple seats are covered in thick black dirt, from memory the back row has a couple of cushions which are heavily soiled. This should be getting picked up on initial use checks. 

The general cleanliness on the rest of it isn’t much better, grime on the sidewalls and on the seat handles. Floor doesn’t look like it’s seen a proper clean in years. If I’m using it to commute it tends to be on one of its first trips of the day so, unless everyone each day has gone through a field before getting on, all of this dirt is carrying over and it isn’t leaving the depot clean each morning.

Theres rumors going around stating that the B9's are planned to leave Redcar and replaced by more 72 plate E400MMC's. Is there any truth in this. They still have a long life left in them.

I know theres going to be 2 E400MMC's being customized and transferred over to Whitby for the Park & Ride which I'm surprised they don't just use 2 B9's for it and use the transferred E400's on the X93. Also, they could be thrown on 62 duties which frees up some single deckers to be spare or for other services.

(Yesterday, 9:51 pm)Mike_98 wrote Theres rumors going around stating that the B9's are planned to leave Redcar and replaced by more 72 plate E400MMC's. Is there any truth in this. They still have a long life left in them.

I know theres going to be 2 E400MMC's being customized and transferred over to Whitby for the Park & Ride which I'm surprised they don't just use 2 B9's for it and use the transferred E400's on the X93. Also, they could be thrown on 62 duties which frees up some single deckers to be spare or for other services.

Its true i herd the same x93 will be fully mmcs all year around castcade the b9s to easier work  and its brand new deckers whitby getting i also been inform

(Yesterday, 10:37 pm)Bob5666 wrote Its true i herd the same x93 will be fully mmcs all year around castcade the b9s to easier work  and its brand new deckers whitby getting i also been inform

any reason why the B9s are being moved from the NE? seems quite odd, considering theyre barely 11 years old. unless, of course, there is a limited storage of parts.

(4 hours ago)TechnicallyTurkish wrote any reason why the B9s are being moved from the NE? seems quite odd, considering theyre barely 11 years old. unless, of course, there is a limited storage of parts.

There starting to become a issue on relbilty for sevice x93 number of brakes down  which is leading the sevice to be cancled so  there investing in the x93 for once.instend of elsewhere