Arriva North West - Winsford Depot

[copey]

RE: Arriva North West - Winsford Depot

(12/07/2014 08:21)33109 Wrote:  Today (sat) for some bizarre reason macc have chosen to put optare 705 on #38 & 4489 is on the bollington circuit!!!

Why the hell they've done it is beyond me as the #38 gets much larger passenger loadings than the #10.705 was packed to capacity within 5 mins of leaving macc on the 09:10 duty.

Copey any ideas why they swop sometimes for an optare on sat? Deckers on macc locals is overkill big time.

Can't really answer for Macc as I work in Winsford, but I would suggest that maybe 4489 has some issues requiring it to be kept on a route local to the depot and I don't think that Macc have a spare DLA to use as we have had their 4042 for a while now. I do agree that an optare would seem unsuitable for the 38.
Before Macc took over all the 38's we used to use 4489 on 84's on a Sat and substitute it with either a DLA or a Centro on the 38.
Hope this helps.