(10 Nov 2022, 12:39 pm)ne14ne1 wrote “BREAKING NEWS: Stagecoach have ordered 200 new @ADLbus Enviro400MMCs that will replace older buses in the fleet in: Oxford, Manchester, Yorkshire, Preston, Northampton, Mansfield, Portsmouth, Chichester, Winchester, Torquay, Folkestone and Newcastle”i can understand Newcastle and Manchester, i know Portsmouth has a CAZ coming as well but Portsmouth, Winchester and Chichester have had a decent few deliveries over the past decade,
https://twitter.com/cbwtweets/status/1590674256433598466?s=46&t=EEVe5v8rsI6XXJAgszgD4w
for example, 2012,2014 and 2019 i think double decker wise, they replaced a lot of older tridents with various batches of the ex-Newcastle (56 plate I believe) E400 tridents, some 07 ex Newcastle E400s, and a few 08 ex Manchester E400s.
oxford again I am surprised as they had a rather young fleet and i think they have had deliveries recently as some of their 2010 hybrids recently transferred to Manchester.
i can understand Northampton as they have I think around 20 04 plate tridents which are still going strong. although i would have used cascades from Manchester and maybe Newcastle to oust the tridents as 200 buses between 12 areas isn't going to stretch far. probably around 16 or 17 buses each if there's an equal distribution