Off Topic - Arriva buys remaining stake in Centrebus Holdings Ltd

[andy]

The Hinckley operations will become Hinckley Bus and will not become Arriva although will be managed by Arriva

Took a quick trip over to Hinckley earlier on the 48, all I can say is the scrap man will be busy, step darts, breadvans etc... Genuinely surprised to see such **** still in use.

Good news for Bob, Cannock has gone up a position  :D

[Bob]

Lol I could imagine the Varios being cascaded to cannock to upgrade some key routes :-P

[sconehead85]

Thanks folks but its statistics I am after however manky or not the vehicles may be! Hopefully they will appear in the Arriva Midlands fleet list soon.

To part answer my own question I have this Hinckley allocation which dates from December 2012 which I wouldn't mind correcting.

Dennis Dart step  128/32/48/70/81/82
Volkswagen 207
Optare Solo 220-2/9-32, 350/69/72/84/6
Mercedes Vario 430/3/4/8/9/41/2/6/7/9/50
Dennis Dart SLF 517/8/70/91
Optare Excel 687, 715/6..

This list could still be out of date.  It looks as if 2038 wont be the only step Dart with Arriva although it is possible they may be replaced by drafted/reinstated Dennis Darts.  The Varios are split between R reg, but the last three are 54-plate.
The Centrebus part takeover will bring a large batch of Optare Solos to Arriva.
Any corrections feel free to make.  This has been edited from the original post.


sconehead85

I have put the list of vehicles transferred to Arriva on the front page of the main site. This has been kindly supplied by Arriva so should be correct, although it was sent to me as a pdf of a handwritten note so could have an error in

Tony Ive seen the list but the only doubt is 2200-2 as there is an existing 2201/2.
still in service AFAIK.

sconehead85

[nx4737]

The Hinckley operations will become Hinckley Bus and will not become Arriva although will be managed by Arriva

Took a quick trip over to Hinckley earlier on the 48, all I can say is the scrap man will be busy, step darts, breadvans etc... Genuinely surprised to see such **** still in use.

Good news for Bob, Cannock has gone up a position  :D

Please don't encourage him...

[Tony]

Anyone wants to see the three step entrance darts at Hinckley better be quick!

They are to be replaced by 2122, 2555 & 2557 from Wednesfield

[Tony]

Thanks folks but its statistics I am after however manky or not the vehicles may be! Hopefully they will appear in the Arriva Midlands fleet list soon.

To part answer my own question I have this Hinckley allocation which dates from December 2012 which I wouldn't mind correcting.

Dennis Dart step  128/32/48/70/81/82
Volkswagen 207
Optare Solo 220-2/9-32, 350/69/72/84/6
Mercedes Vario 430/3/4/8/9/41/2/6/7/9/50
Dennis Dart SLF 517/8/70/91
Optare Excel 687, 715/6..

This list could still be out of date.  It looks as if 2038 wont be the only step Dart with Arriva although it is possible they may be replaced by drafted/reinstated Dennis Darts.  The Varios are split between R reg, but the last three are 54-plate.
The Centrebus part takeover will bring a large batch of Optare Solos to Arriva.
Any corrections feel free to make.  This has been edited from the original post.


sconehead85

I have put the list of vehicles transferred to Arriva on the front page of the main site. This has been kindly supplied by Arriva so should be correct, although it was sent to me as a pdf of a handwritten note so could have an error in

Tony Ive seen the list but the only doubt is 2200-2 as there is an existing 2201/2.
still in service AFAIK.

sconehead85

What vehicles do you have as 2201/2 then? P201/2HRY went for scrap over a year ago

[Bob]

Ex Wednesfield vehicles eh? Nice to see its gonna be a quality operation :-)

[andy]

Ex Wednesfield vehicles eh? Nice to see its gonna be a quality operation :-)

And he's off!!

[the trainbasher]

Ex Wednesfield vehicles eh? Nice to see its gonna be a quality operation :-)

And he's off!!

Nothing wrong with ex Midland stock :-)

[Bob]

I was surprised they got rid of the refurbed marshall darts, unless they were screwed mechanically?  Some were S regand they were much nicer internally than some of the transferred in ones say s208 dto/s347 yog etc

[sconehead85]

Tony- My info was wrong!

sconehead85

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Hinckley Bus fleet
2200 2201 2202 2392
6100 2555 2557 2560 2562 2567 2568 2569 2570
3149 3150
1905 1907 1908 1910 1911 1912 1913 1914 1915 1916

The buses have left Hinckley are 1909 2000 2001 2002 3813 3814 3815