(26 Jul 2026, 6:32 am)Storx wrote There's 10+ spares isn't there, on paper anyway? Quite a few really, obviously ignoring reliability here. Believe they usually work on a 10% rule and that's well over. 

Unless there's another 2 which Ashington haven't put out Blyth currently have 6 vehicles and Ashington only have 4 vehicles from the swap so who knows.

There aren't - they have 8 on paper which is just over 14% (one of the lowest spare percentages in the region I believe).

(26 Jul 2026, 9:22 am)L469 YVK wrote How did Blyth end up with 6? Seems a bit of an odd number given it doesn't match any PVRs other than perhaps the X9.

Would be nice to see some investment at Blyth later this year.

The hell do you mean "some investment"

Sorry are the BYD not theres or something

(26 Jul 2026, 9:22 am)L469 YVK wrote How did Blyth end up with 6? Seems a bit of an odd number given it doesn't match any PVRs other than perhaps the X9.

Would be nice to see some investment at Blyth later this year.

Blyth have had two lots of new buses this year so they won't receive any more this year

(27 Jul 2026, 9:37 pm)Dan manger wrote Blyth have had two lots of new buses this year so they won't receive any more this year

It doesn't always work that way. All new buses will be bought and allocated on the business case behind it. You quite often see some depots stuck with older cascades while the new stuff goes to the depots that make the best case for the investment. Blyth seem to be doing a good job at getting that investment at the moment.

(28 Jul 2026, 4:24 pm)Shrek wrote Blyth seem to be doing a good job at getting that investment at the moment.

Not sure I agree there mind. They've had 6 buses under iSquared (the BYD's were done under DB Regio).

The fleet serving Blyth and Ashington (the actual places) is objectively the worst it's ever been and still is after these new orders. The X21/X22 has a worse fleet now than it did in 2017 which is pretty impressive. They've pretty much surrendered to the new train line imo.

Darlington / Stockton / Redcar is where the investment is going that actually removes elderly and useless buses out the fleet and truthfully with franchising on the horizon I'd probably do the same really. Durham being even worse than the rest.