(11 Aug 2019, 7:56 pm)Andreos1 wrote

All they did, was delay the inevitable and I firmly believe, damage the network from a public perspective.

I've voiced my thoughts on the purple Solar's many years before they were cascaded.

I cant see the subsequent cascade to the 35 and replacement of Mercs with the 521x Solar's will have done the 35 many favours.

I've been on a few of them recently, 5216/5217 have panels internally hanging by a thread as the bolts/screws have not been tightened up.

As for the 35 I agree the vehicles allocated may of damaged it from a public point of view however I also think constant services changes have also had an impact, god knows what will be allocated once the Scanias have been withdrawn.

(11 Aug 2019, 7:47 pm)Michael wrote Ye it does, hopefully they start to arrive soon, but i would expect the first few Scania's to be gone by the end of October/start of November, but it also depends how long the refurb program will actually go on for because so far only the Cobalt and Coast B9's are confirmed to be having the refurbishment.

Iirc correctly 6113 to 6115 are currently away for refurb with 6100/6116/6117 also to be done, I would say we would potentially looking towards November for completion of the Cobalts.