Most of First London Operations Sold

[Southernsofty]

RE: Most of First London Operations Sold

(10/04/2013 14:36)Polo Mint Wrote:  Funny on the Telegraph it shows a First Manchester Scania on the photograph when the article is about the sale of First London.

Selling London probably makes more sense, there are a lot of companies in the London market so First could always buy their way back in in some shape or form like Stagecoach did. If they sold Manchester or West Yorkshire etc then they may never be able to buy it back in the future.

Interesting to see how this changes the fleet. The provinces will not need to suffer with Marshall bodied Darts? Why did TFL insist on those specific Darts? I looked at a fleet list and Daggenham seems to have around 60 modern vehicles, mainly Enviros and a few Geminis. Considering it looks like Daggenham will be shut down could they be re-configured for provincial use?

I was rather hoping that before the sale completes that First London would be able to cascade a few more of the horrible Marshall Darts to the rest of the evil empire!
Dagenham has a number of elderly Tridents and some middle aged B7TLs, they might get cascaded with a bit of luck!