Diamond Bus North West

[Winston]

RE: Diamond Bus North West

(07/07/2019 11:46)gilesbus1 Wrote:  The grant for the 582 was a Government grant allocated to First Manchester, my feeling is that this investment will not now go ahead, instead Rotala's plant is to bring in several new MicroHybrid Vehicles and in that case its likely that the 582 will get the first batch of new Wright Streetlites (probably of the Streetlite MAX variety) or Streetdecks.

The 2 12 Plate Volvo B9TL's will remain with FirstGroup along with the 3 63 Plate Eclipse Urbans as they are Vantage spares, however they will be replaced in December by a fleet of 10 new Electric Deckers from an unknown manufacturer, which will displace these out to another fleet as V3's and V4's will then be operated by Volvo B5LH's displaced from the main V1 and V2 diagram's. Another handful of deckers will also transfer to Rusholme for other V3 and V4 journeys as well at the same time along with 3 or 4 training fleet vehicles, as training operations for both Rusholme and Oldham will be based at Rusholme.

Last I heard, is that there are no new single deckers due to be ordered for Bolton, only double deckers. Rotala typically now buy Euro 6 Micro-Hybrids as standard, if available.

There may be the possibility of a small batch of Streetlites moving from within Rotala, plus a batch a full size single deckers being acquired outside of Rotala. None, of this has been confirmed though.