First Manchester

[Damien]

RE: First Manchester

(15/08/2012 11:45)gilesbus1 Wrote:  

(14/08/2012 21:10)GmBusesNorth Wrote:  Optares to leave wigan and will be replaced by darts with electronic destinations and also B10s, thats what the frontman told me!

That would make sense, Volvo B10BLE's out of QS and perhaps Dart SLF's from another area that are newer than R Plate, perhaps some from Yorkshire or Scotland or Midlands.

I think the P reg Arrows as well if any are left may get replaced by something slighly newer as they are now too old for school work.

Generally what I suspect will happen is that some B9TL's at least will get cascaded away possibly in exchange for newer Midibuses, its also possible I guess that some B7RLE's may go likewise to other fleets.

I guess and I emphacise guess that Manchester will recieve B9TL's that are displaced to cascade B10BLE's to Wigan probably the older batches or the odd balls within them.

Bury might get some but they arent now really needed there as they already have enough B9TL's to service the 471, maybe perhaps a few more could be in order.

B7RLE's would ber cascaded out from the Bury and Bolton stock along with B9TL's from out of the Oldham stock indead three have already gone to London for the 2012 Olympics so may not come back here and instead may go elsewhere, they where 09 Plated examples in the new livery.

Interesting Aberdeen is expecting a number of deckers so it may be possible some of ours are going there.

Bury are to get some more B9s for the 135/471 allocation duties, as the current fleet doesn't meat the requirement. It's no secret that Oldham will be sending some B9s to Bury this information comes from reliable sources employed at First so it's likely it will happen. Although to accommodate these new B9s with Bury being a smaller depot it can only take buses it can realistically park, so you would assume that older scanias may well be leaving.

Also bare in mind that there is whilst nothing confirmed a great deal of in certainty as to the long term future of the citaros remaining at Bury also to be considered