Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

[St Helens Rider]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot
4610 was on the 89 at 1615 from St Helens - don't think this duty was one of those originally planned for the spares when they were introduced.

[M113 YKC]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

(03/03/2015 18:10)St Helens Rider Wrote:  4610 was on the 89 at 1615 from St Helens - don't think this duty was one of those originally planned for the spares when they were introduced.

4610 was on there from this morning from what I seen. It looked the part among pretty-much everything else in Belle Vale! On the other hand, 2550 was on an 89A yesterday morning and spent its day on the 89... Noticed that there only ever seems to be one or two Renowns on the 89 these days (understandably, of course).

[SL64 JFK]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot
2986's gearbox has been fixed (thank you to whoever did it!), however it's now slow pulling off and seems to be missing about a quarter of its power! There's also a dreadful rattle and vibration from the back when stationary, which was certainly testing my patience.

[SLTRegular]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot
Rode "Patchy" Yesterday 2692 3 times with varying states of Moquette across the back two rows including some old and new Moquette and several dents on the door side of the bus it looks like its been in the wars internally and externally my first two rides on it where really impressive apart from it found every pothole in Skem it could find especially in Claybrow and it didn't take the awful speedbump greacefully

the nickname patchy was given to it by a train enthusiast not myself

[T42 PVM (Moderator)]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot
DAF Cadet 2421 is out on the 10A Lates!!

[sth77]

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2237 seems to have had a reprieve and is back in service. Noted out on the 36/A on Monday.

[507022]

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4601 is currently on the 89 heading to the airport

[motormayhem1]

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3 was parked up in the depot at 15:30 when i was going home

[T42 PVM (Moderator)]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot
According to someone who posted on Arriva's Facebook Page the 329 Extension to Daresbury is getting chopped, anyone able to confirm/decline this?

[motormayhem1]

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Yeah it will be finishing due to the funding getting axed and just isn't viable to run commercially as it only picks a few up in the peak hours where as the X30 runs that way with about a 5-10 min walk from the main stretch.