Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

(08/09/2017 07:04)B10B6514 Wrote:  On the contrary my friend Birkenhead was PREDOMINANTLY double deck with Leyland Olmpians, Volvo Ailsas and copioius amounts of Leyland Atlanteans back in 2000. Single decks were in the minority with DAF Ikaruses and Volvo B6 Pointers.
It was the only depot not to receive any B10B Endurances new.
The mostly single deck era was from 2001 onwards when Arriva withdrew the majority of double decks from the fleet and brought in a swathe of Dennis Darts.

Perhaps I should have said that the policy Arriva adopted when it took over MTL was, in the main, to replace ageing time-served double-deckers with single deck Darts, B6's and B10's. It has taken over 15 years for this short-sighted policy to be reversed on Merseyside.

Personally, I will be very interested to see how well the new BYD's cope on the 26/7 (which also serve several schools) when they are introduced next month. I suspect that Enviro400's will be used to augment these routes.