Arriva North West DLPs & VLWs

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RE: Arriva North West DLPs & VLWs

(26/10/2017 18:23)mr t Wrote:  Are there any more ex London deckers due in the near future? We have always had batch after batch sent up since Arriva took over, but with these withdrawals there will be no ex London stuff in service anymore, leaving lots of depots short on deckers, even if they were only for use on schools or peaks or rail reps, which will impact on normal depot allocation like happened in the most recent Lime Street replacements

I agree. Arriva London has sent hundreds of deckers to the provinces over the years, the first ones on Merseyside being the ex-Grey Green F***TML Volvos and later DAFs from the S*** JUA batch but that policy now seems at an end. Presumably, Arriva prefers to sell mid-life deckers to dealers such as Ensign rather than cascade them to the regions. I wonder why?