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I wouldn’t be surprised if the plan is to repaint two of 111-119 into Rushcliffe Villager or spare livery when all the mainline buses have been refurbed. It also makes sense they are using mainline branded buses on other routes when they have two extra buses to cover the PVR while refurbs are...

TfGM only had to buy around ten (by my very quick calculation) depots, whereas GoAhead London operate from around eighteen sites and thats just one operator. Of course TfL already own some garages but they would still have to buy the operators out of their leases (i’m assuming?)

Interesting that Route One are reporting that five of the home-to-school contracts were not awarded https://www.route-one.net/news/two-smes-in-wyca-bus-franchise-contract-winners-as-five-unawarded/

I’m guessing this is the batch of E400s moving from East Scotland to Hull as they should be the MX59s

I wonder if they will operate these services from Manvers Street

I believe the E200MMC is ex-Moffat & Williamson SN66WHR, which is yet to enter service

107 has branding for every ten minutes which is the current frequency of mainline if I’m not mistaken?

I’ve heard that the last day Stagecoach in Chesterfield will operate NX services has been moved forward to the 10th August, can anyone confirm this?

Either way ZEBRA funding was allocated to the 110 with BYDs ordered using this money so Arriva will need to do what they can to get them on the road. Its not unheard of to have new electric buses sitting unused for months or even years because of charging problems at depots

The Turquoise buses have started to be rebranded to 77/78/79 together so I wonder if these routes will interwork to cover the 79 increase

Weren’t the Electroliners ordered prior to the Ultroliners being delivered or am I misremembering?

Dublin Bus took a large number of B9 E400s and Ulsterbus had some B7 E300s. Plus IIRC there was some inquiries into bodying the B8RLE with a E200MMC body for Lothian around the time the Evoras were ordered but this never happened

Or the batch due for Rugby is also involved in the swap? IIRC they are due 4 Yutong U11DDs

Wow, I guess they really are desperate to remove the Solo’s from the Trent fleet

It seems odd Rotala are doing this when they could potentially lose a big chunk of their main West Midlands operation to franchising, surely you would want to keep Preston and the Heathrow operations healthy to balance out any losses