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The new coaches don't have to be Plaxton though

Yes it did, I wonder if the H1 MMCs were diverted from Kinch as it was rumoured some of the 29 were going to them, and Kinch are now getting ZEBs thanks to the ZEBRA2 funding

Didn't Aberdeen Council insist on hydrogen though?

I must say I was very impressed with the Yutong's on the Leicester Park & Ride service, felt very well built. Slightly less new model now but the integral BYD K9s on Nottingham's Medilink felt well built too, much better than the electric Optare's that worked the route before them.

Didn't the P&O Ferries Excel's at Dover have a second door added?

Sorry, I should have added that the promise goes for 'non-contracted' routes, so services like Bee Network, East Midlands Airport, the Hinckley Point buses are still eligible for diesel buses

Westminster just announced ZEBRA funding which is why some English operators are ordering buses. Holyrood I believe isn't providing funding to any bus operators in Scotland for ZEBs at the moment, just to some coach operators

Electric buses are uneconomical to purchase without government funding at the moment, and because First have promised not to buy diesel buses anymore it means that cascades of older diesel buses will be required unless funding becomes available or the price of ZEBs becomes economical enough to...

Given Kinch are to receive some electric buses following the ZEBRA announcement, there could be some changes to the planned allocation of the 29 ADLs

Because the E300s were discontinued in 2015 and the routes needed brand new buses. Are the B8s not owned by the Welsh Government as two of them went to Newport Transport a few years back and have now returned?

The First hybrid StreetLites were also ordered by the PTE along with their hybrid Streetdecks

The Ecclesfield StreetLites were ordered by the South Yorkshire PTE and not Stagecoach. They also wanted hybrid buses and ADL didn't make a single-deck hybrid at that point

Do you have a source for that?

If they were ALXs I doubt they'd be heading to Bristol. I think the only First depot that has closed top ALXs now is Ipswich and Lowestoft.

Apparently 48101-4 have been diverted to Manchester instead of Ardrossan

Belive they operated a Sheffied-Alton Towers route before (X71 I think)

Does Derby have enough space to take on the Skylink service though?

128 is going to Kinch following the PVR reduction on Skylink Nottingham a few months ago

Yes, with refurbs to bring them up to 'Trent' standards

I'm not sure but it seems to be, otherwise we might not have 19-year old Scanias still in service