17 Apr 2016, 10:29 am
#448
(17 Apr 2016, 10:14 am)Michael Surprised a few other corporate buses haven't moved around, seems GNE have worked the transfers out well.
There was no need for corporate liveried vehicles to transfer between depots, if I'm honest. There's been like for like replacements at every depots, in accordance with the services which have been gained and lost. I couldn't understand the discussion regarding 5248/49 at Percy Main transferring to other depots when they're still required at Percy Main for service 9. As nice as it would be to have a consistent allocation across all journeys on service 9 regardless of which depot is operating it, the reason why Deptford allocate double-deck vehicles is because they interwork with scholars which require double-decks. There would be a higher cost associated with running these scholars standalone in order to allow a single-deck allocation on service 9.
There are a number of transfers still pending out of those that I have mentioned. Most transfers took place between 20:00 and 01:00 last night, but a number of buses were VOR and unable to transfer.
- 4978 - 4982 are still at Riverside, though are scheduled to be transferred this morning.
- 5244 is VOR for PSV at Percy Main
- 5258 is VOR at Chester-le-Street
- 6121 is VOR for PSV at Riverside
- 8295 is VOR at DiagTest
- 8297 is VOR at Washington
