(23 Oct 2022, 10:25 am)54APhotography wrote Single deckers on 901s happened earlier this year during a multi operator operation, and going back to when Arriva operated some, Pulsars were common.
Perhaps this contract was awarded pre rationalisation?
Or maintenance forced the substitutes single deckers?
LR52KWU/SU53UNV/LK04NMZ/JH09COM/JH59COM all out of service
The double-deck vehicle spec for planned Metro Replacement is certainly not new, and has been commonplace now for many years.
Nexus agreed to the use of single-decks earlier this year when they put it out to all operators.
The same could/should have happened again, if JH were unable to provide the vehicles contracted for the service.
Of course the issue here is that JH don’t have as many double-decks as they used to following their loss of school contracts, and they had five double-decks on the SAFC Park & Ride contract yesterday, meaning they probably over-committed based on their current fleet size.
They may have asked Nexus for dispensation - but I’d be surprised if they were agreeable to this when it was a match day…
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