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RE: Arriva North West - Speke Depot - Barney - 19/07/2017 20:45
(19/07/2017 20:00)Y474 KNF Wrote: Apparently they'll be 4851-4861 but we'll find out once they're all here
I did hear they'll be refurbished internally to the same standard as the Cross River examples
Does anyone know why these ten have been exchanged with standard diesels? Is it simply to keep them in one area?
RE: Arriva North West - Speke Depot - Raawwwrrr! - 19/07/2017 21:05
(19/07/2017 20:45)Barney Wrote: Does anyone know why these ten have been exchanged with standard diesels? Is it simply to keep them in one area?
Not the direct reason, but If bus franchising goes ahead, LCRCA want to increase the number of environmentally friendly vehicles on the road in Liverpool, and will favour operators who provide buses that use alternate greener fuel supplies to run services.
RE: Arriva North West - Speke Depot - bus401 - 19/07/2017 23:34
Arriva are rather lax reguarding fleet numbering just look at the hybrids at Laird Street,quite a lot still haven't got a full set of fleetnumbers after 4 years in service,so I don't think they are bothered.
RE: Arriva North West - Speke Depot - motormayhem1 - 20/07/2017 07:33
(19/07/2017 20:45)Barney Wrote: Does anyone know why these ten have been exchanged with standard diesels? Is it simply to keep them in one area?
Been told too that another reason is merseyside took out extended warranty that includes parts and labour with volvo and anything major goes wrong with them volvo repair them at no extra cost to arriva.
Where as bolton and other areas didn't so it become rather costly to repair so the plan was to bring them to merseyside and put them on the extended warranty and thats whats happened.
RE: Arriva North West - Speke Depot - childwallblues - 27/07/2017 06:19
7006 is now in service here. Others that I have seen are 7001 7003 7007 7010 and 7011.
Can anybody tell me please which Geminis have gone south to date?
RE: Arriva North West - Speke Depot - RedPanda - 27/07/2017 10:37
(27/07/2017 06:19)childwallblues Wrote: 7006 is now in service here. Others that I have seen are 7001 7003 7007 7010 and 7011.
Can anybody tell me please which Geminis have gone south to date?
4470/1 are two I'm aware of atm though course there are more
RE: Arriva North West - Speke Depot - gka472l - 27/07/2017 11:03
(27/07/2017 06:19)childwallblues Wrote: 7006 is now in service here. Others that I have seen are 7001 7003 7007 7010 and 7011.
Can anybody tell me please which Geminis have gone south to date?
7002 is also up here now although it's only just come up this past weekend so probably not out yet. I have 4455, 4460, 4464, 4468, 4469, 4470 & 4471 as gone south....
HTH
RE: Arriva North West - Speke Depot - Quackdave - 27/07/2017 18:01
(27/07/2017 11:03)gka472l Wrote: 7002 is also up here now although it's only just come up this past weekend so probably not out yet.
It was out today - on 80A IIRC
RE: Arriva North West - Speke Depot - gka472l - 01/08/2017 11:12
BV17CJY on the 79D just now
RE: Arriva North West - Speke Depot - childwallblues - 01/08/2017 11:46
Are they returning to the 79 or just a one off?