(5 hours ago)Coastliner700 wrote The 18 has gone from deckers to single deckers to a van today (11). Ironically it still runs around empty !
Temporary dispensation on contract specification granted due to low-hanging trees causing two windscreens to be smashed earlier this week (and three in the weeks prior to that).
Indeed, as you allude, a small bus is all that is realistically required in terms of passenger numbers, aside from two busy school movements on weekdays.
Double-decks re-deployed on X22/X43 as a result.