Stagecoach MCSL - Chester & Wirral Depots

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RE: Stagecoach Chester & Wirral

(16/10/2015 22:33)mbonwick Wrote:  If you'd bothered to look back at the previous page, you'd have seen the answer to your question.

Chester CC after a higher quality vehicle interior - hence use of ex-Goldline Solos. All town services going to Solo operation at the same time to create a common vehicle type/brand (all Solos will be in corporate swoops).

Remember that the Darts from GM were just an improvement on the 04 plates ex-Scotland that had been in use since the takeover. Much better for MY&SL to be losing their oldest darts than the 05 plates....

Also worth pointing out that under First Chester town services were mostly 8.5m Solo operated (by what are now 47741-5), with a few 10.1m Darts appearing - so the initial replacement with 10.7m Darts was overkill. This conversion to 9.2m Solos all round provides more seats than in First days, using more size-appropriate vehicles than full size Darts.

Don't forget in PMT and First days, there was a large amount of minis and midis in fleet.including the Mercedes Beaver 2s, solos and MPDs, so if anything stagecoach have found passenger numbers arnt sufficient for a full size bus, however are too busy for the smaller optare so have opted for something in between.