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I drove that several times doing reliefs and covering days off. Slabtrack was a brilliant project.
The bus was a Wright Endurance bodied Volvo B10B which in its service days was 6514. It was transferred to the driving school in 2010 and renumbered 8214.
Merseyrail and Network Rail requested a...
I feel Wright should make friends again with Volvo considering the Swedish firm's aspirations for alternative power and corner a share of the growing market whilst at the same time developing their own hydrogen technology.
Cumfybus of Southport had spell with H-CFY & C-MFY plates. FY being accidentally appropriate because that and WM were Southport registration marks pre 1974.
Also Shearings used several such as YTP749, SPR124, XTW359 from memory. In 1989 they bought a batch of FDZ 3xxx marks that were current...
Does anyone know what the different classifications of D, DM and DMS of the LT Fleetlines meant?
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Also Merseyside PTE were due a large batch of Fleetlines in the mid/late 1970s but these were changed in favour of the Atlantean because of supply issues with Leyland.
Thanks it appears to be running as this https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/R03063/2020-12-16/detailed
Followed by https://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/R03064/2020-12-16/detailed to Kirkdale.
777001 is being dropped at Crewe with 777016 and 777018 continuing to Merseyside.
They near as damn are as they are part of the new Arriva North created last year when all OpCos were reorganised into 3 units : Arriva North, Arriva South and Arriva London.
It would make sense to transfer them to the Wales unit though to tidy the operations up locally.
And also Southport Panthers 59-70 and 71-80 were dual door too.
The ex Southport Nationals 1-8 (later 6042-9) were converted to single door between 1980 and 1982.
As an aside some 07 plate ex-London baby E200s have entered service in Southport over the last 6 weeks after also being converted...
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