(21 Apr 2019, 8:51 pm)Malarkey Wonder if we will see any new buses arrive prior to these service changes, if so they will probably have to start arriving next week.
There's been no leaked photos (that I'm aware of) of vehicles arriving in to Heysham. Rules out Wright stuff.
With Optare being 'down the road', there's usually something shared. Enough to rule out them?
Theres been a stack of demonstration vehicles as we know, but my gut instinct would say that any evaluation or analysis of performance, wouldn't have left enough time to turn around an immediate purchase (let alone the manufacture) of anything.
Maybe it's just further consolidation?
The 35 doesnt seem to be as popular as it was in the past, so would struggle to provide a business case for new investment - unless there were drastic changes to the route.
The apparent pvr reduction to the 20, X5, X6, 36 and 18 provides scope for cascades.
Out of all the changes, I can only see the X21 needing an increase - although that might be managed in another fashion.
All of those things indicate (to me anyway), that there's nowt new arriving soon.
Certainly not in time for these changes.
'Illegitimis non carborundum'
