Arriva North West - Speke Depot (Old Closed Thread)

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RE: Arriva North West - Speke Depot

(17/12/2016 07:41)childwallblues Wrote:  It will be interesting to see what leaves Speke when the new vehicles arrive. Members post that Commanders are going to both Laird Street and St Helens whilst Geminis are going to St Helens. But are these reports factual or here say? I would suggest that the depot requires more deckers than it currently has given the numbers of Commanders appearing on the 75/79/82/86 on a daily basis. Also I assume that the depot intends to allocate deckers on the 78 and 80 on a permanent basis. That would leave the 76 as the only single deck route at the depot. Probably better to put deckers on there as well and transfer out all of the Commanders.

When the new hybrids move in I can see a very good case for transferring a dozen of the Geminis to Bootle. The 15 plate Enviro400's that were originally allocated for the 52/52A are more often to be seen on the 60, 61 and 63 Mon - Fri. Consequently the 52/52A is more often served by Pulsars and 02 plate ex-London deckers.