(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15 year old buses should be getting withdrawn, not sent to the provincial fleets, especially non-standard ones which are still in GoAhead London interior.
Precisely, took the words right out of my mouth