(30 Mar 2023, 8:14 pm)Malarkey wrote If you look at the fleet on paper the large majority of it is either at Mid-Life or approaching Life-Expired if your looking at anything purchased before 2015 and I would agree in a huge order being needed to replace what they have currently....particularly at Deptford which has become the scrapyard for old buses following ULEZ being introduced in Newcastle.

Furthermore since 2019/2020 when there was a last a sizeable order only 9 new buses have been purchased with support of Government Grants of course for the Yutong E12's on the Q3, everything else that has come in has been from elsewhere in the Go-Ahead Group yet we still have those Ex-Brighton Omnidekka's hanging on for dear life doing circuits on the 93/94 because there are that many Euro 6 Buses VOR at Riverside the Loops are being allocated here, there and everywhere.

See this is why I don't get sending 6334/6335 down to GNW, we need them here. The GNE fleet is not in a very good state. Like the Ominicities were old, Ill give them that but they're way better than a lot of buses GNE have in service now, for me so were the Mercedes, in my opinion, they're better than the verses, and a lot of the streetlites. But ordering over 100 buses for 2013, means that 100 buses will need replacing in a similar time period. Because I can tell you right now those streetlites arent going to last 15-20 years. Drifters are 10 year olds and most of them are barely holding on.