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RE: Ex Arriva NW Palatine II's - KX03 KYY - 29/11/2022 14:29
(29/11/2022 09:19)33109 Wrote: Assume the small batch winsford got cascaded have all been scrapped? Ours were:
3329
3330
3331
3334
All in the WVR reg series so 3329 was aka R329WVR & so on.
I know they were Palatine 1's but I wonder if any of the R-AEY batch still exist
Or the DAF Palatine 2 (V715 LWT) winsford had briefly
RE: Ex Arriva NW Palatine II's - L401CJF - 01/12/2022 10:53
(29/11/2022 14:29)CX06 BHE Wrote: I know they were Palatine 1's but I wonder if any of the R-AEY batch still exist
Or the DAF Palatine 2 (V715 LWT) winsford had briefly
R233 AEY was for sale on Facebook in 2019 with an independent, VOR and needed work. Not sure if it ended up scrapped though.
RE: Ex Arriva NW Palatine II's - Gillmoss 0324 - 01/12/2022 19:03
IIRC V715LWT was registered a few years after it was built and later than the R-CKO's and didn't it have a stint as a exhibition bus for a time too?
Did all the R-CKO's end up at Speke/ANW or were some of them with other Arriva companies, does and doesn't seem a long time ago but got a feeling they all didn't transfer to us after their loan stint with London United in 2002.
Loved the DAF's on the 86 a bit of variety but what's come since are a million times better.
RE: Ex Arriva NW Palatine II's - Raawwwrrr! - 01/12/2022 19:21
(01/12/2022 19:03)Gillmoss 0324 Wrote: IIRC V715LWT was registered a few years after it was built and later than the R-CKO's and didn't it have a stint as a exhibition bus for a time too?
Did all the R-CKO's end up at Speke/ANW or were some of them with other Arriva companies, does and doesn't seem a long time ago but got a feeling they all didn't transfer to us after their loan stint with London United in 2002.
Loved the DAF's on the 86 a bit of variety but what's come since are a million times better.
V715LWT was unique in being the only member of the later batch to sport a ZF gearbox, the R-CKO’s being Voith
The R-CKO’s arrived in Late 2003, a few years after the 86 branded N-DWY’s. Most of the batch ended up at Speke, but the remainder went to Kent Thameside later Kent & Sussex, where they remained dual door for a while before a conversion years after the Speke batch
RE: Ex Arriva NW Palatine II's - Gillmoss 0324 - 01/12/2022 19:37
Thanks for that mate.
RE: Ex Arriva NW Palatine II's - gka472l - 01/12/2022 19:39
(01/12/2022 19:21)Raawwwrrr! Wrote: V715LWT was unique in being the only member of the later batch to sport a ZF gearbox, the R-CKO’s being Voith
The R-CKO’s arrived in Late 2003, a few years after the 86 branded N-DWY’s. Most of the batch ended up at Speke, but the remainder went to Kent Thameside later Kent & Sussex, where they remained dual door for a while before a conversion years after the Speke batch
From memory, there was only R201-3/13CKO up here in Merseyside, the rest either stayed down south or went to Arriva NE.....
HTH
RE: Ex Arriva NW Palatine II's - 33109 - 02/12/2022 22:29
(29/11/2022 14:29)CX06 BHE Wrote: I know they were Palatine 1's but I wonder if any of the R-AEY batch still exist
Or the DAF Palatine 2 (V715 LWT) winsford had briefly
No idea but I'd suggest all the AEY batch were scrapped sadly. In macclesfield we had:
3346 - R236AEY
3349 - R239AEY
Loved these, nice cosy feel sat upstairs particularly in winter as some of the upper deck lights didn't all fully work so was dark ish up there & you could have a kip.
We also had some others with coach style seats & another volvo olympian 3360 which was P943MKL. Not sure if there's any of those left.
RE: Ex Arriva NW Palatine II's - Scania1996 - 03/12/2022 01:35
(02/12/2022 22:29)33109 Wrote: No idea but I'd suggest all the AEY batch were scrapped sadly. In macclesfield we had:
3346 - R236AEY
3349 - R239AEY
Loved these, nice cosy feel sat upstairs particularly in winter as some of the upper deck lights didn't all fully work so was dark ish up there & you could have a kip.
We also had some others with coach style seats & another volvo olympian 3360 which was P943MKL. Not sure if there's any of those left.
The ones with the coach style seats would have been the N-TPK batch, some had bench seating and others had coach style seating.
RE: Ex Arriva NW Palatine II's - KX03 KYY - 03/12/2022 20:30
(03/12/2022 01:35)Scania1996 Wrote: The ones with the coach style seats would have been the N-TPK batch, some had bench seating and others had coach style seating.
P MKLs im sure also had high back seats in them althoughI thought that batch was in Wales not Winsford
RE: Ex Arriva NW Palatine II's - Raawwwrrr! - 03/12/2022 21:40
(03/12/2022 20:30)CX06 BHE Wrote: P MKLs im sure also had high back seats in them althoughI thought that batch was in Wales not Winsford
They never, they had brown individual seats in Maidstone and District moquette*
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