(27 Jun 2024, 11:15 am)Dan wrote Hopefully some better 'on the ground' management can prevent the remaining examples being used on frontline work, and be isolated on schools only as was always intended, as it wouldn't be cost-effective to convert the older examples.

Surely it's barely cost-effective to be converting life expired buses to be running front line work regardless. People slag off Arriva, and they do deserve it, but even they haven't resorted to sending 13/14/15 year old rubbish up North from London to do frontline work.

Before someone comes along and reminds me of the Darts at Darlington, I'll just remind them of the order of electrics for the 2 which will replace these. There's nothing, as far as I'm aware, to be replacing all this rubbish, any time soon and that's ignoring the B9's which are actually part of the fleet which aren't exactly spring chickens either.

School work, fair enough though as it's pointless running new buses (last 10 years?) on those routes.