Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

[St Helens Rider]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot
NO! Please don't tell me that 7640 is coming back! This cannot be allowed to happen.

[motormayhem]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot
Yep its true,its patked up at the back next to 2271 awaiting checks before going back in service.

[Ultralow]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot
2214 has now got L.E.Ds fitted.

[CX54 DKD (Moderator)]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot
Front only as per 2213 did you notice?

[tinytears87]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot
676 on the 10A heading towards Liverpool this morning, passing Longview at 0858.

[MPTE1955]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

(04/03/2013 09:05)tinytears87 Wrote:  676 on the 10A heading towards Liverpool this morning, passing Longview at 0858.

Now that is pretty shocking, seem to be getting all sorts on the 10A recently, just as well that St Helens don't have a sprinter like HTL as that would probably appear on the 10A as well.

[sth77]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

(04/03/2013 09:05)tinytears87 Wrote:  676 on the 10A heading towards Liverpool this morning, passing Longview at 0858.

Unbelievable, the thing that is annoying is that I bet there is a pulsar or B10BLE on St Helens local routes. There is no excuse for this allocation so early in the morning.

I have said this before, the allocator at St Helens needs to be informed what vehicles should be allocated to what routes. If I remember correctly didn't Southport have a notice up saying what vehicles are to be on what routes? Time for St Helens to have one of these. If we are that short of full size buses then something needs to be done whether it be loans or getting cascades instead of being a dumping ground for all the c**P.

[H101GEV (Administrator)]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot
A creaking route that desperately needs deckers instead has a bus with 28 seats allocated to it. You couldn't make it up really: a pitiful allocation.

[tinytears87]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot
The likely scenario of how this has happened is that this is the last 10A booked out of a morning, there is an obvious shortage of buses, and the Solo has come off the pit and been put on the 10A as the only bus available in the garage. Shortages of buses happens, especially on a Winter's Monday morning. Now if its not changed when it returns to SH, then the sh&t should hit the fan.

[T42 PVM (Moderator)]

RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot
680 was on the 33 before as well, gotta love a full standing load on a route that only just copes with the longer solo SR's