(05 Mar 2015, 7:04 pm)Malarkey wrote Think Stagecoach should purchase some Optare Solo SRs for the 15/15A, that housing estate in Byker just after it stops outside Morrisons enroute to Newcastle is extremely tight for the MAN E200s.

For a one year contract? How would Stagecoach justify the capital expenditure into Optare Solo SR vehicles for a Nexus-secured service, which is due to come up for renewal again in a year? Put it like this: let's say you had to save up to buy a new games console, but there was a chance you wouldn't have a TV to use that games console with in a year's time, would you buy the games console?

In the instances of new "Nexus" branded vehicles being ordered by other companies, they've had fairly decent five year contract lengths, in most cases.