(24 Aug 2015, 4:29 pm)Cock Robin wrote Surprised they would rather refurbish 5 Cadets than 5 B10BLEs for the sake of a few months age difference. The Cadets will be non standard whereas they're going to be keeping the W reg B10BLEs anyway.
If the Cadets are that good why only refurbish 5? Must be able to source five DDA buses from somewhere?
I think it'll go on the engineering book value to decide which of the fleet will be kept. Logically, and from a personal point of view, keeping the Volvo's would make far more sense.
The number being kept I think is just to fill a hole in the number of Pulsars being transferred. They could have brought in some ex London deckers run around in red and London spec much cheaper, they could last a few months I'm sure, and for very little cost...
(24 Aug 2015, 4:55 pm)GX03 SVC wrote Yet, TfL safety stickers are still present throughout the vehicle? People know these buses are old, there's no fooling them. Alright, the B7s are nice and the interior has a modern-ish feel.
Where are the other 2 of the 6 B7s going?
I'd imagine they'll replace 2 DLAs at Ashington? Not 100% sure
(24 Aug 2015, 5:24 pm)Cock Robin wrote 1101?! Where's that going?
What about 4511?
1101 will be for disposal I'd guess. And yes I meant 4511 not 4510 which was binned a while ago.
(24 Aug 2015, 8:19 pm)South Tyne Lad wrote Though yes it benefits capacity wise and reliability wise, from a personal point of view I would definitely have Primas.
Yeah there was at least 1 or 2 Primas off at one time, substituted by E400s or them decent 57 reg VDL DB250s I also recall seeing a Wright bodied B10 on the X15 once...
In rush hour
If only we lived in Scotland where coaches are the order of the day for long distance services such as this.