(01 Jan 2014, 7:46 am)Dan wrote Now only if you're sure you want to stop fighting against everything I say, CatsFast101... After all, a senior member of staff disagrees remember? The X7, according to a depot manager at Deptford, is in line to receive Solar vehicles next year. Y'know, the vehicles which are all entering a spare role to allow for SPDs and Renowns to be withdrawn.
(Sorry gtomlinson, I'm excluding "The Waggonway" from all of this business... They ain't moving from there until they need to be withdrawn!!)
In all seriousness, yes. I can assure you that I am not 'pulling your leg' - hints and suggestions from the past month or so have all certainly been in favour of the "Wear Tees Xpress" receiving these vehicles as opposed to the "Pronto".
As for the other three, well...
I believe timetable changes may reveal where one bus will end up, at the end of this week. With this, you need to keep in mind at all times what I've said about network reliability and how I expect things to improve (not just in the Sunderland area, but across the entire network). If you want to get ahead of the game, you may consider looking at the VOSA registrations posted a few weeks ago, and match up the vehicle types!
The other two (perhaps the two 06-reg) can be discussed nearer the time - there are certainly a great deal of windows open for these two given recent events of newer vehicles entering the spare role fleet and many services, such as the Diamond and Crusader, requiring an allocated spare.
However, to put it from the "Laser" perspective (which is one of many possible outcomes)... If it means two extra Olympians being withdrawn earlier due to Laser Solar cascades, do you think it would be worth repainting the Solar vehicles at an additional cost? Like I said, a lot of scope for the final two.
Oh...and what did I say not so long ago about it not being long until the eldest Citaro vehicles are on services which aren't some of the 'high player' services? It all adds up, and I did say if you read through all of the hints at once you could have worked it out for yourself!
At least we're getting somewhere, though... It wasn't so much of a battle to try and get you all to believe something this time!
Dan I've never fighter what you've said and I hope you don't take our discussion/disagreements personally as it's certainly not meant to be.
So 4/7 Citaros will move onto WTX. I'm thrilled. 1 will end up on Crusader/Diamond/Blaydon Racers?? And the 2 '06 reg could be put into GNE livery??
Happy new year too.