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Now they have no choice!
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Well you never know…
And there was I, thinking it was carefully hidden under Harry Potter's invisibility cloak since arriving in Derby
I don't think anyone expected an 18 year old bus that has just suffered a substantial engine fire to be anything other than a write off to be honest.
You never know with Arriva could be fixed with more scrap parts and be put back on the road for a few more years
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Yeah, actually, that's not a bad point.
Probably without a full repaint either, just the back end!
joieman
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After all, Leicester's 4765 caught fire and then got fixed up and returned to service... only to apparently get written off after a collision some months later!
How severe was the fire though?
SSmith2009
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it was only a minor fire and out within a minute as someone used a fire extinguisher on it.
So not really comparable then.
Would they actually need to skip any of the route though?
I was told by a member of staff that when the route changed they couldn’t use double deckers due to the baddesly part of the route which had narrow roads with parked cars Both sides (it’s happened before where that driver have had to knock on doors to get cars moved) plus a steep hill with tight bends and low hanging trees which is difficult to navigate in a single decker. I drive a small 7.5 tonne truck that way home and sometimes struggle so I feel bad for the drivers
Narrow roads and parked cars have the same impact on a double decker as they do on a single decker...
Trees I understand.
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There was one on there earlier in the week too,4224 I think. Some of the roads off Stenson Rd where the 6 runs are quite tight even for the Streetlites.
According to bustimes, it looks like none of the route was skipped. It would be nice to see deckers regularly on the 6, however I’m not sure if there is enough usage of the route to justify it.
The other one is likely either 2980 or 2984, those haven’t tracked on Tamworth routes yet and haven’t been out for a number of days.
Most likely, the original plan was to have 2974 - 2987 move to Tamworth eventually. But plans keep being changed so we will see
Well neither can I really but there’s talks of everything older that 58 plate not having a new mot which will explain why 3767 has been of the road with the mot expiring on Thursday and also there was talks that the 12 plate citaros would be slowly phased out due to higher maintenance costs and not being standard fleet. But I honestly not sure what’s next plans keep changing
It'll be a shame to loose the Citaros but I get why they would want them gone.
The Versas feel like a stopgap measure too, they aren't in the best of shape.
Have the E200s already left, haven't seem them for a while?
Depending on how many 11.8 mmc's telford get, i think most of their Pulsar's or some Streetlites? will move to Tamworth
Yes it would be a shame to see the citaros go as most of them are still decent excluding 3002 which has a gearbox fault and 3004 which has an engine fault. These two break down quite often and keep getting “repaired”. E200 gn10kwh has ran out of mot now for a couple of weeks so presumably it will be scrapped or moved and as for mx12cev I’m not to sure.
And yes some of the versas are in poor shape sometimes worse than what they replaced. I can’t imagine them lasting long to be honest.