Well, 3709 was out and about this morning. Even left the bus station and went down the Morledge. On what is another matterYeah, looks like they might be going into consecutive fleet numbers since there's quite a big gap between that and the current numbers
I wonder if they will track correctly as quickly as they got renumbered too
Actually I suspect given when it left, it worked the 11.35 X38 that should have left Derby Bus Station
Suspect so as one of the X38 buses is tracking as the spare ticket machine.
sarcasm
I guess they aren't being numbered in registration number order then
Around 8 Pulsars seen heading towards Derby on the A50 earlier.
Reported elsewhere been collected from Laird Street (Birkenhead) depot.
Yes
There was a suggestion that Derby drivers wanted the Scanias gone, so they are getting an Arriva style upgrade.
The transfers to Derby seem to have been from Birkenhead.
No, this wasn’t the case.
The Scanias needed some work done which, on balance, was not cost effective.
There's a combination of various things going on at North East - believe a batch of VDL/Wright head north east, as well as 10 new Volvo B8RLE/MCV, which will release a batch of StreetLites to Merseyside and replace the very much non-standard Temsa Avenues. Either way, that's likely to require more than 20 VDLs.
Those Temsa Avenues seemed to just keep running. Were they worth buying? I.e value for money?
I presume the fire earlier in the year also had some affect on the decision as well.
Ah yes, the fire under the closed multi storey car park. Seems to recall there was another, less serious one in the bus station.
Ah I was driving behind 3708 today and wondered why it was so slow, I thought it was a new driver being cautious.
Had quite a few visits the last six years or so to sample them, photograph etc, very solid buses and reliable and the better ones climb hills on the X4 and X93/X94 better than any of the more common types. I found this year they are starting to suffer from lack of work been done to them to keep them good, one kept having a fault with overheating, kept getting sent out and playing up, rather than resolve the issue let it play up and swap it, saw three times, twice when aboard. I understand some parts are no longer available from Temsa and been non standard are the reasons cited to replace, that's fair enough. I heard locally suggestions they had looked to get another 2 or 3 years more out of them when under DB.
Unfortunately not, was talking to a friend of mine & he said it’s one of the slowest… isn’t a shock considering it’s from Merseyside.
Pretty much the same as Derbys ex Merseyside examples, pretty sure most have had the same seats since new, atleast our Scanias had a refurb around 5/6 years ago.
Looks like they are all parked at the back of the depot now.
Maybe they will be refurbished before they enter service, in MRC
2 are already in MRC being prepped for paint.
Wonder if they are ones in the old Cotswold stone livery?
One day, the entire Derby fleet MIGHT be in the same livery.It's strange seeing an Arriva bus in Cotswold stone these days, I'm almost tempted to say don't repaint one for old times sake!
They nearly did at one point, everything in the city was either in the Journey Mark or Max liveries until they began importing and exporting buses.
Just in time for Arriva to launch a new livery!
And 4222 in plain blue.