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RE: Arriva North West - Birkenhead Depot

(05/07/2012 13:30)wirralbus Wrote:  218/9 are just the morning merseytravel equivalent of the 418/9 , seems pointless putting them in a low cost unit if the 418/9 are not going into it .

I have heard of Low Cost units at LS before namely the 401 , but it only ended up with cadets being replaced by pulsars .

Could also be related to drivers' pay rates as well as this was one of the major areas for savings when Merseybus went through their 'low cost unit' phase about twenty years ago, alongside running the oldest vehicles.