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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

(06/03/2013 17:00)wirralbus Wrote:  This isnt being helped by management wanting to get enviro's refurbished for Wrexham service 1 before the Hybrid's had become available for service .

Those Enviros which have been sent to St Helens for Saphhire treatment have indeed been replaced by DLA's, 4402 and 4410 were replaced by 4025 and 4076 respectively. Neither of which have seen traffic since their arrival at Birkenhead, in fact quite the opposite. 4076, despite having been re-MOT'd before departing St Helens after remedial works were successfully carried out, is instead being cannibalised at the rear of Birkenhead depot. It would appear Birkenhead's reluctance to use these DLA's which are transferring as temporary replacements until their full compliment of B5L's are in active service is indeed the major source of the problem rather than management rushing to release Enviros 4402-10 in order for the company to meet its target of an early April launch for the Sapphire route 1.