Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire

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RE: Stagecoach Cumbria & North Lancashire

(19/06/2013 17:03)cumbria0902150 Wrote:  There'll probably be quite a few more out of place allocations from Lillyhall in the next few weeks until things are sorted out. 47753 has gone to Lillyhall on loan to help out while problems are sorted. Hopefully their fleet reliability will be much improved by the end of summer.

47753 was back in service at Carlisle today and was on the 93 and 38 Stoneraise School services.

There were two Darts on the 79/179 Annan/Dumfries services - 34681/2 - and two of the Enviro300s were missing - 24116 and 24118. I have not seen 24118 for a while and wonder if it has gone for repaint as 24117 has returned freshly painted (and without any branding - the 79/179 branding has also been removed from its rear window).

Another Enviro300, 24122, was on the 685 Newcastle along with spare coach 52629 - the two regular coaches for this service, 52626/7 were both missing.

Olympian 16650 was on the 91 Caldew School and 104 from Penrith while one of the regulars for this run, 18365, was on the 61/61A city service all day.

Reserve B10M 20960 has been out again recently and today was on the 300 Workington and 0940/1340 600 Cockermouth journeys. Last Wednesday I saw this bus on the 79 Dumfries. Reserve MAN 22160 was on the 60 city service today.

As well as 24117 losing its route branding, many of the Darts have lost theirs and I think the only ones left are 34689-93 for the 61/61A; 34696-99 for the 62; 34708/09 for the 67/68 and 34712-14 for the 76. One or two had the branding removed after repaint (like 34711) but quite a number have had it roughly removed (like 34710).