(26 Jul 2023, 7:40 pm)Storx wrote Usually when you displace stuff, then you'd send stuff up which have a few years life in them. Arriva were good for it until recently with things like the 55 plates B7's which turned up in 2016 or the 51/52 plate B7's in 2013/14 so still have 5 or year left on paper - obviously some are still here but that's another debate and all had a full refurb so they were as new.
15 year old buses should be getting withdrawn, not sent to the provincial fleets, especially non-standard ones which are still in GoAhead London interior.
Doesn’t GNE operate a fleet of 50 dedicated school only buses?
You’re never going to get anything much newer than life-expired for school contracts in the North East, other than perhaps County Durham where some coach operators can tie a school in with some other work.
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