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looking at the avon fleetlist them pointer 1's really are getting on a bit, any plans to replace them soon?

Dennis Dart SLF/ELC Spryte S509 NFR (509) unusually on the 90 today.

This certainly isn't surprising to me:

PC1097846/23 - AVON BUSES LTD T/A AVON BUSES, 10, BROOKWAY, NORTH CHESHIRE TRADING ESTATE, PRENTON, CH43 3DT
Cancellation Accepted: Operating between Liverpool, Arrowe Park Hospital and Liverpool, Penny Lane given service number 183/184 effective from 28-Apr-2013.

(05/03/2013 12:46)3111 Wrote: [ -> ]This certainly isn't surprising to me:

PC1097846/23 - AVON BUSES LTD T/A AVON BUSES, 10, BROOKWAY, NORTH CHESHIRE TRADING ESTATE, PRENTON, CH43 3DT
Cancellation Accepted: Operating between Liverpool, Arrowe Park Hospital and Liverpool, Penny Lane given service number 183/184 effective from 28-Apr-2013.

Does this mean that the route will have to be taken back on by Merseytravel .

Someone on the Merseytravel Twitter page asked about the withdrawal of routes 183/184 and this is Merseytravel's response:

"they're commercial services and Avon has decided to withdraw them from 28 April, no decision has been made yet about replacement"

So wait and see I guess in regards to replacements!

The 183/4 must have been marginal for commercial operation considering the vehicles have to come over from Prenton.

The other commercial operation in Liverpool the 122 must be viable to have lasted so long with vehicles coming over from Prenton.

As I understand (well from riding them in current and previous incarnations) they are used, at least in the daytime, however mainly with passes and not by huge numbers but no less than various Merseytravel routes so there is potential for them to return to being tendered routes, given they were until around 2004 when A1A Travel decided to commercialise them.

The only problem now is with budgets cuts in every direction would it be feasible to replace these routes , hard decisions have to be made .

Fairly unusual sighting today, was X822XCK (822) on the 77's.

The snow wins, no services after 20.30ish