(14 Mar 2014, 10:26 pm)VolvoMarkII wrote This is just speculation. They can be made DDA compliant if they want to, but as they are almost 15 years old and nearly fully depreciated...
The refurbishment will have added significant book value so it's very unlikely that they will go next year.
As far as I know they've decided the cost outweighs the value that would be gained from converting them to DDA spec and therefore they will have to be replaced next year (deadline for single decks over 7.5t is 1st Jan 2016). Shame because the majority are still decent to drive.