(05 Jan 2024, 3:43 pm)Coastliner700 wrote E200s should never be used on DD routes. I have saw it least once a day on the 38/22 in recent days. An E300 can work on some quiet journeys but not at peak times. You’ve got many deckers tied up on contract work. Surely if they bid for these contracts they should have obtained extra deckers for those rather than steal from main routes
If CAZ wasn't an issue, I would have been content for some of the ALX400s that are now getting disposed of throughout the group to finish their working lives up here either on the contracts or covering for newer vehicles that are on contracts provided there was a plan in place for Thier replacement within a 2 year period.
I hate to say it but judging by the current cycles of procurement SNE will probably not receive any new brand new deckers for 2 or 3 years now. Even if for an extremely unlikely example they received cascaded 2014 MMCs from Manchester those vehicle's are ten years old this year
(05 Jan 2024, 7:37 am)Storx wrote Meant to go to Torquay weren't they?
The issue I have was that SC South west has had a higher percentage of investment in recent years compared to SNE, but outside of tourist season the profits are quite low. I'm not against other divisions receiving investment but as pointed out when SNE is a cash cow subsidising other divisions investment that gets my goat abit