Stagecoach Manchester

[joe_alker]

RE: Stagecoach Manchester

(13/03/2014 15:28)33109 Wrote:  How long have the following got left I wonder:

2X optare spectra double deckers
The dennis trident ALX400 deckers
Any remaining olympians
The oldish darts
MAN 18220 ALX 300s

Some of the ALX300 lot are getting particularly old now, especially the S reg examples. Thought stagecoach would've seen em all of by now & replaced by the enviro 200 darts I.E. 36104 & friends.

The olympians are definitely on borrowed time, I don't know of any oldish darts left apart from 33174 (which is mainly ancillary only rarely used in service), even the 04-reg ex-Dennis's 33098-100 are in reserve.

The MAN's have plenty of life left in them I reckon, and will probably stay at Ashton until they're too old for anything. The Trident's are nearly all Magic Bus and would probably be transferred to other fleets at some point, only one has been scrapped ex-Manchester: 17651 and that was accident-damage related. The Optare Spectras - I don't know whether they'll be transferred to Magic Bus livery or sold on.