Arriva Buses Wales - Wrexham Depot

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RE: Arriva Buses Wales - Wrexham Depot
The crux of the matter with using Enviro400s on fast work is that they aren't designed for it. They are a city bus which is why there are so many of them in London.

Underneath they're not much more than a Trident, which is a semi-decent motor at best for stopping and starting every hundred yards and little more. A small engine screaming away all day coupled to a rear-mounted radiator is not a recipe for success, particularly as rear radiators have the 'benefit' of picking up all the muck thrown up by the back wheels. First have some Enviro400s on their X1s in Anglia that they work a lot harder than Arriva's Sapphire Enviro400s and that in time will come back to haunt them.

Stagecoach have the right idea with Enviro400s. Integrals for plodding around town all day, but built on Scanias for longer-distance duties. The Scania-based ones will attract a fair old price premium but are much better suited to the work they do.