New Buses Orders

[cx04axy]

New Buses Orders
Are there any current orders for any pulsars that Arriva have annouced recently out of curiousity??

[Phil]

RE: New Buses Orders
Apparently, there are 18 new buses due for Green Lane in the summer. This info comes from a comment made by Arriva NW on their Facebook page.

Whether they are Pulsars or not remains to be seen

[MPTE1955]

RE: New Buses Orders
That will see off Marshalls, V-ENC's and probably the former Chester Darts.

[K853 MTJ]

RE: New Buses Orders
Are the V-ENCs and V-DJC Darts due to leave this year? They are only 14 and thus under the 15 year margin Arriva seem to have set judging by previous fleet renewals. Furthermore it has only been said that Marshalls are due off by the end of the year (Despite them being the same age as the above), I cannot recall mention of anything else coming off 'early' so to speak. Thats not aimed at MPTE by the way, thats just a general query!

[MPTE1955]

RE: New Buses Orders
Danny, it basically just an opinion from me, it may not necessarily mean those buses are off the fleet but off somewhere that has some Marshalls to replace them. Probably should have worded my post differently but there you go, I appreciate you are just making a general query as well.

[MX12 KWB]

RE: New Buses Orders
message off fb page Arriva North West Yes Lee, 12 will be arriving mid to late spring with a further 6 in the summer.

[K853 MTJ]

RE: New Buses Orders

(11/03/2013 14:34)MPTE1955 Wrote:  Danny, it basically just an opinion from me, it may not necessarily mean those buses are off the fleet but off somewhere that has some Marshalls to replace them. Probably should have worded my post differently but there you go, I appreciate you are just making a general query as well.

No worries mate! Will be interesting to see if they do the leave the fleet at around the same time as the Marshalls!

[Raawwwrrr!]

RE: New Buses Orders
18 for the 12/13, a route with a PVR of 18 Mon-Fri...

[wirralbus]

RE: New Buses Orders

(11/03/2013 23:19)Raawwwrrr! Wrote:  18 for the 12/13, a route with a PVR of 18 Mon-Fri...

That will be tight for availability but it is workable if the vehicles coming in are reliable .

[M113 YKC]

RE: New Buses Orders

(12/03/2013 06:29)wirralbus Wrote:  

(11/03/2013 23:19)Raawwwrrr! Wrote:  18 for the 12/13, a route with a PVR of 18 Mon-Fri...

That will be tight for availability but it is workable if the vehicles coming in are reliable .

Whether they're reliable or not, there will still be days when one (or even more) are off of the road for their relevant maintenance attention. Arriva seem to be setting-up situations like this a lot now - firstly with Southport's Volvo/ALX400s, then with Wrexham's Enviro400s and now with these! As demonstrated at Southport, it's not a great situation to be in! I could only presume that, in this situation, there are enough spare Pulsars in the depot's fleet to cover times that all 18 may be unavailable - and, come on, even the current Pulsar services are barely always covered by them at the moment!