Stagecoach MCSL - Gillmoss Depot

[WhiteVanMan]

RE: Stagecoach Merseyside - Gillmoss Depot

(28/07/2014 10:24)mbonwick Wrote:  With thanks to cumbria09..

There are 263 single deck vehicles left to be delivered on this years order. The following vehicles need to be replaced before 2016 due to non-DDA compliance;

63 B10Ms/B10Bs
18 B10BLEs
217 MAN ALX300s
3 Scania L94UBs
145 Darts/SPDs
4 Solos (at Norfolk Green)
5 709Ds

Total: 455 vehicles

455 minus the 263 being delivered leaves 192 to replace on the 2015/6 order.

So as you can see, there will be no desire to chuck out DDA compliant vehicles (unless broken, as in the case of 22310) ahead of that deadline.
Although it is easy to think that E20Ds will only replace Darts, that isn't the case. Ultimately mid-life darts will be cascaded to replace MAN ALX300s, B10Ms etc.

I thought that the non-DDA compliant Solos at Norfolk Green had been replaced by the cascaded Darts from Carlisle.