Happy 18th Birthday Arriva Merseyside

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RE: Happy 18th Birthday Arriva Merseyside

(21/02/2018 18:52)darylyates17 Wrote:  Seeing as its been 18 years since the take over how many buses are remaining in the fleet (both training and normal service) that were originally ordered by MTL as Im curious I thought the Renowns were the last to be ordered by MTL before the takeover by Arriva as they took over the order for them but I might be wrong

There's 8 ex MTL buses left in the fleet - 6301/3, 6514/9, 6522/9 and 6909/13 which were acquired from Liverbus by MTL before the Arriva takeover. If Arriva still has the mobile sewing room used at the old bodyshop facility in Bootle then you can also add 6607 to that list

In recent years I think things have improved massively on Merseyside with the large investment in double deckers for Green Lane, Bootle and Speke. It would be good to see Green Lane and Speke receive more deckers in the future to convert them to near and full decker allocations respectively - although I think the latter is more likely than the former. Time will tell!