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by DD12 » 21:47 Sunday 18th June 2017
AdamH wrote: ↑15:34 Sunday 18th June 2017
ANDREW wrote: ↑10:58 Sunday 18th June 2017
Thanks, do vehicles have to be sourced from within the First group ??
Or could they be acquired from independent dealers ?? [ excluding PVS Ltd of course ].
I'm not sure. I'd imagine it would be easier to buy within the group but I don't think they are forced to. So if you know of two suitable coaches, Worcester depot are in the market...
I think Megabus / Stagecoach have possibly got some Left-Hand-Drive ones (?)
- and I'm sure Mechwr26 could convert them to RHD !!
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by AdamH » 06:15 Thursday 20th July 2017
The "new" Volvos for Service 144 should start to arrive at Worcester in about 1-2 weeks. These are not all coming at the same time and the last is not expected to arrive until after Christmas. As each one will replace an older FMR vehicle a spare bus will be at Worcester so, in theory, there won't be a shortage during the change over. Expect this to be an old Volvo in the 663xx range.
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by AdamH » 13:39 Thursday 20th July 2017
66305 has just arrived at Padmore Street depot as the spare. Surprisingly, it's freshly painted in Urban2 livery.
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by bmmoboy » 13:41 Thursday 20th July 2017
Where's the pic???
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by AdamH » 13:53 Thursday 20th July 2017
I was walking down to get a photo but before I got there an engineer moved on to the rolling road. I'll have to wait until it's outside again.
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by Peter » 15:57 Thursday 20th July 2017
AdamH wrote: ↑06:15 Thursday 20th July 2017
The "new" Volvos for Service 144 should start to arrive at Worcester in about 1-2 weeks. These are not all coming at the same time and the last is not expected to arrive until after Christmas. As each one will replace an older FMR vehicle a spare bus will be at Worcester so, in theory, there won't be a shortage during the change over. Expect this to be an old Volvo in the 663xx range.
Thanks for the info Adam, is it likely the newer B7RLE's will be the 59 plates at Leicester? And Enviro300's leaving for the Potteries?
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by AdamH » 16:57 Thursday 20th July 2017
From the information I have at the moment, yes. However, plans seem to be changing on a daily basis at the moment so don't be surprised if something else happens.
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by Rich82 » 17:49 Thursday 20th July 2017
Would that include 67664 be a shame for the heritage livery enviro to go
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by Peter » 18:54 Thursday 20th July 2017
AdamH wrote: ↑16:57 Thursday 20th July 2017
From the information I have at the moment, yes. However, plans seem to be changing on a daily basis at the moment so don't be surprised if something else happens.
Thanks for that Adam! I saw 67664 a couple of days back and it's started to look pretty tatty vs the Trident, I guess it's a plainer livery and had various vinyls attached/removed in its role as the Christmas bus, so could be due a repaint anyway.
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by Rich82 » 19:02 Thursday 20th July 2017
I agree that 67664 has started to look tatty and when I last saw 33404 it does still look smart.
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