Wirral Bus & Tram Show

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RE: Wirral Bus & Tram Show 2012

(09/10/2012 21:25)CX06 EBK Wrote:  In all the years I have attended Wirral Bus & Tram the eldest Arriva bus to appear was C212 GTU just before it was converted to open top, N283 CKB attended a few times (driven by the Southport driver of 4107) but usually they tend to be newish buses. 4125 went from Speke last year and Commander 2601 or 2602 has been along with an "old" DLA and 2062 (I think) and 4120. Birkenhead have sent an Enviro 400 while there was a St Helens Paladin there one year but it tends to skew towards newer buses. I would have thought this is natural as the depot wants to show off its best buses to as many people as possible, especially as some people may never see 4107 for example as they may never visit Southport. People come from all over so they want the best presented buses, all of which I mentioned were very clean when they visited.

Well, if there's a next time, I won't expect anything to be there like I expected this time...! Always thought that they've sent older buses - obviously not. As for Stagecoach and First, already explained Stagecoach and I didn't even know that First sent buses to the show (and they mightn't even have a depot around here to show-off soon, anyway)! The reason why I thought that they sent older buses there was because of the amount of "preserved" buses around - again, thought that was the aim but, again, obviously not!