Stagecoach North East
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RE: Stagecoach North East
(01/10/2012 21:59)cumbria0902150 Wrote: The older ex London Tridents were owned by Stagecoach, but due to the way disposals from London works, they went out to "public" tender, leaving them open to transfer around the UK or for sale to dealers. Coupled with the poor condition of the vehicles and low book value, they're often not worth the conversion costs to make them suitable for standard operations. The newer Tridents (2003 onwards I believe) have some sort of finance, but I don't know how exactly they're financed, or what will happen to those vehicles when their London life is up. If they're on HP, which some sources say, they could be bought by Stagecoach and transferred around the UK, or they might just be sold on. Stagecoach Manchester got 11 or so of these Ex London ones over the last few months, operating both school runs & regular routes. Fairly random V, W & X reg ones between 17151 & 17245. So far all going into Stagecoach standard livery. Maybe they will replace the current Olympians in the Magic Bus fleet eventually. |
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