Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Runcorn Depot
The spare Sapphire only really comes into play when an X1 branded one is off the road from first thing and 3137 can be allocated straight onto a duty. I think if an X1 bus needs to be swapped during the day, an effort is made to use 3137, even if it means swapping a few buses to make this happen, but i imagine it isnt always possible.
Spare vehicles are so scarce across the NW at the moment, it wouldnt be possible, even if it was as simple as giving Runcorn an extra 2 or 3 buses.
Cadets have been on the bus way over the halloween and mischief night period as was the case last year too due to problems with vandalism (it costs much less to replace a Cadet window rather than a gas bus one).