Arriva North West - St Helens Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - St Helens Depot
The T-PNBs being withdrawn tallys up with what management allegedly wanted - R, S & T single decks gone as near to the end of last year as possible.

With regards the X-regs, there's another good three years out of them yet, they're only just turning 12. Also don't forget that being from the back-end of the year, the V reg Marshalls potentially have another 8-10 months to go too. I suspect they'll start to be withdrawn upon developing costly faults as with the T reg examples though.

7622 is an odd one mind because it would potentially have another 8(ish) months in service if it weren't off the road... With replacement engines having been coming out of Darts for a while now, including 2320 according to MM, would it really be that much trouble to fit one, replace the dashboard (which is only a case of re-attaching some plugs and putting in some screws anyway) and then pulling a front panel from a withdrawn T reg example to continue to make money out of it? To potentially act as an extra vehicle during the exodus of the T reg vehicles, it still genuinely wouldn't surprise me if it were to return to the road especially given that it's been treated to P&P. Within a short term period anyway; the longer it's left the less likely they are to do anything with it, obviously.