Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

[motormayhem]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

(01/11/2013 02:08)Scania1996 Wrote:  

(31/10/2013 23:42)sth77 Wrote:  There have been some strange allocations from the St Helens allocater today. 4016 on the 33 shorts until 1pm, a pulsar 2 on the 31's and 723 on the 10's (not sure if this lasted all day).

2418 was also on the 10's at around 17:00, the back row of seat are terrible for shaking on that one

2418 had been on there since about 07:30 in the morning as i think they where slightly short of buses but enough to make full service.

[motormayhem]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot
There should be a replacement decker here for the schools sometime today as its being picked up from bootle unsure if its one of the geminis from london thats been converted or not.

[Jack]

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The Solo on the 10 the other day either did at least two trips or there was another on there too.

[MPTE1955]

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Your replacement Decker may well be Bootles only DLA, that being 4097.

[motormayhem]

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Thats correct mpte as its joined st helens fleet as its parked up by engineering to give it the once over before service.

[MPTE1955]

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(02/11/2013 19:09)motormayhem Wrote:  Thats correct mpte as its joined st helens fleet as its parked up by engineering to give it the once over before service.

I have ridden that twice since it came to Bootle, both times on 61, it's really not bad, certainly the drivers I had knew how to get it moving well.

[507022]

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I thought 4014/6 were the two schools contract buses. Has 4097 replaced 4014 or is it an extra one?

[motormayhem]

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4014 is the worse out the 2 as its really sluggish with an empty bus and even worse with a full load of school kids so i think this will replace 4014 which may keep as a spare just incase till its mot runs out at the end of the month with 4016 mot.

[St Helens Rider]

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I thought we were getting more recent London cascades to replace both vehicles. Is 4097 extra?

[motormayhem]

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Yes we are to receive 2 volvo b7 gemini 1's which are to replace the dla's but they are still under conversion as vlw28 is not far off finished as been told 1 - 2 weeks and the other 2-3 weeks after that.