Arriva North West - Winsford Depot

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RE: Arriva North West - Winsford Depot

(13/09/2014 10:25)33109 Wrote:  Thnx a load for the gen copey much appreciated, at last that's 4216 tracked down?

Forgive me if am being a bit dumb here, but haven't we got a workshop at winsford for carrying out repairs & maintenance etc??? Also noted 2425 parked out the back of the depot as I passed yesterday (fri)

Seems we're deffo short on deckers atm, sooner the B7s become available for us the better it'll be.

We do have a workshop at Winsford but the fault on 4216 needs some specialist attention. Last that I heard was that even the specialists are having problems rectifying it. The problem lies I believe in that the bus has been through so many different workshops in its life and various changes have been made to the original specs that makes fault finding very difficult.
2425 came off with a fuel leak so that could be awaiting a fuel tank. I will have to make some enquiries to engineering.
4027 was taken off Thursday evening sounding like a tractor, seems like exhaust repairs are in order.
I believe that Macc will be having 4489 MOT'd next Tuesday so hopefully we can get 4030 back.
The B7's from Southport I am led to believe are on target for some time in October but are now only going to receive an external refreshing which I think is a shame but they should be far superior to the DLA's in performance and reliability [unless anyone knows otherwise].