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The accident is featuring on Helicopter Heroes on BBC1 now. It looks horrific.

(27/05/2013 08:06)DEM777Y Wrote: [ -> ]The accident is featuring on Helicopter Heroes on BBC1 now. It looks horrific.

Drink, drugs & over 80mph.....

http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/ne...-1-5708591

Noted 1464 in service yesterday at Wakefield. 1456 still there as well. Only bus I did not see out of batch 1456-1470 was 1457. Wonder if it has gone to Heck now that 64 is back.

I was in Wakefield yesterday. Route 110 has received a batch of 15 reg deckers to Sapphire specification.

An Open Day is being held at Castleford Depot on the 25th June to celebrate the launch of new Enviro400 MMC's for routes 163, 166 and 189.

(27/05/2017 20:50)Dentonian Wrote: [ -> ]A Sunday of course(!) I can understand why its more difficult operationally to have Open Days on Saturdays, but it seems ironic that London Garages manage it.....or used to.

As an aside, with details of new orders very sketchy for 2017/8, does anyone have details of these MMCs - even if its just the amount expected?

Quite the reverse. Being involved in a number of these in London, Saturday is a far better day. Between 1000 and 1600 garages are relatively empty, so the space is there for display vehicles and sales stalls etc.

A Sunday means a shed full of buses to be moved in and out, and the resource (and off site location to put them) to do it.

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Some Enviro 400-MMCs have recently entered service with Arriva Yorkshire. There are ordinary examples on routes 189 (Leeds - Castleford - Wakefield), 254 (Leeds - Cleckheaton - Dewsbury) and 255 (Leeds - Cleckheaton - Halifax). There are Sapphire examples on routes 163 & 166 (Leeds - Castleford). These have displaced Volvo B5LHs mainly if not all to Belle Isle to replace LF Spectras.

YJ08EEB has received the new logo

YJ08 DVK (1106) is in new livery

The Geminis that had been refurbished to MAX standard for route 415 (Selby - York) have recently been upgraded to Sapphire and regained their original reg's. An example is here
https://www.flickr.com/photos/62908736@N...hFX-QpxfqC