Exactly! Richard Hall didn’t pander to anyone at the council and took the company its in own direction (even distancing itself from the TfE brand). The worrying thing now is the council will ensure any future MD tows the line and goes along with everything they want... which isn’t how an “arms length” company should work in my opinion! Any locals from Edinburgh will also know the council has a terrible track record for just about anything!
I had an incling one of those would leave East Coast. With 20942 being back, fleet numbers are starting to sort themselves out. Just the new deliveries for East Coast now!Looks like 850 is now being used by Marine garage...working service 48 this morning.
Wonder if it will remain at Marine for long? If it’s planned to stay at Marine for a bit then maybe 465 will head back to Central?
Sending them to LC makes the most sense to me, groups together a big similar age profile together, all due for renewal in the coming years, judge the success of the business by that point and order, or don't, accordingly.
Any confirmation on what they are? My guess would be single door E400 B5TLs?
Still waiting excitedly on the MCVs
Believe the original order was for dual doored Enviro 400's on B5TL chassis. For use on the 113.Any confirmation on what they are? My guess would be single door E400 B5TLs?
Still waiting excitedly on the MCVs
Very much doubt with the change of management that they'd send LMC deckers to LCB to release other deckers. Thats 2 sets of repaints. They'd just send the LMC lot to LCB and keep the fleet as is.
Yes, seems little point in going to that trouble for the sake of liberating 928-936 from LCB. They've only got a few years of life in them, but still seem to hold out satisfactorily in normal service on the 43 route. If the arrangement proves bothersome that can be tackled when it arises, but I can't think they're much of an asset anywhere else.
Surely they wouldn't wait till March next year surelyCan't see how they'd be registered on 20 plates as none of them have hit the road yet? We may well see them on 21 plates yet
Wouldn’t surprise me if we see something similar to how the XLB’s were done, the first lot were regd as 68 plates and then reregd as 19 plates (except 1063). I assume those XLB’s were never fully registered in the first place and thus had provisional plates if you like (sorry I don’t know the exact terminology lol).Can't see how they'd be registered on 20 plates as none of them have hit the road yet? We may well see them on 21 plates yet
Aye that does make sense, do the 21 plates start coming out on February?
They are legally allowed on the road from March 1st 2021
They may have been already be registered though.Can't see how they'd be registered on 20 plates as none of them have hit the road yet? We may well see them on 21 plates yet
Thank you Romeo, does anyone know when the next service change is?
Unofficially, around March.
I was on a few buses around West Lothian (Bathgate/Livingston) one evening last week and all were pretty quiet, the busiest was actually an Edinburgh-bound X28 as it picked up about 8-10 from the Tesco centre. So certainly I can't see there being any increases on that side of things for a while yet.
Thats a regular occurance, look when Lothian brought back the 60 by request. Hardly any clientelle. They moaned and moaned for years for a service down dumbidykes and it maybe carried 5 people a day. You take it away and their up in arms.
People just love travelling on a bus just now to go shopping under restrictions.
Id love a terminus outside my house. First pick of the seats!
I agree it’s unfortunate that it’s started in the present climate.
