...... SHOCK; - HORROR !!!TimBrown wrote: ↑12:34 Sunday 11th June 2017...... because the four brand new Wright StreetDeck buses came from Leicester in exchange for four Wright StreetLite Max single deckers when the company received a substantial government grant to trial double deckers on the Malvern services for two years. The two years will be up in November this year, so there might be a case to send the StreetDecks back to Leicester and put the currently unmarked StreetLite Max on the 44 ......
- This is the first mention anywhere (that I've seen) that these DDs are for a two- year trial !
- "Knowing" you, Tim, I expect you are right, but it would be a big blow to me if we were to lose these DDs -
- in my opinion they are often needed on the 44, and when 3 or 4 StreetDecks are available, one or two are sometimes "borrowed" to support the reliability of school/college services
- some of which fit-in quite neatly.
(But, of course, I am biased )
So, on this forum, - within a couple of weeks, we have gone from a rumour of extra DDs for the 144, to the possibility of actually losing our first new DDs in 48 years !!
- seems a bit like the current fortunes of national politics and politicians !
I believe Jeremy Corbyn has said he will nationalise the buses -
(but how does he intend to get them through the traffic jams ?)
(I am now going to take an "upper")