Arriva North West - Bootle Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Bootle Depot

(19/04/2014 11:41)mathias Wrote:  I notice virtually all the Trident/Enviro400 deckers running yesterday on routes 52/52A/53A/55 were running late!
Although the high loadings could be to blame, I reckon it's due to the fact that Tridents are slower than Pulsars, particularly when you consider they're running the same 6.7 litre engine.
Common sense dictates that a 6.7 litre engine in a nine-tonne Pulsar will be a lot quicker than a 6.7 litre in an eleven-and-a-half-tonne decker.
Even so, it's nice to see deckers on north Liverpool routes, just a shame some other depots don't have access to them.

Yes, I too witnessed incidents of bunching of 52/52A yesterday and given that they should be 15 minutes apart this not a good advert for Arriva. The reason for this late running may, as you say be because of the 6.7 litre engine, but when they are on their usual routes (60 and 61) they do seem to be able to keep to time then.

Do Speke's and Laird Street's deckers have more powerful engines than Bootle's?