23 New Buses

[winston]

I wonder if the 2b6le's will get transferred out of Coventry maybe to Wolverhampton as they both had a full retrim recently and have been the only two there for a while now. How many mercs are expecting to be withdrawn I'm guessing may be 10 with the 2 b6le's maybe leaving for further use elsewhere with also the 15 omnilinks leaving.

Ash,

Don't forget that there are 33 new buses due for Coventry i.e. 23 x Volvo B7RLE & 10 x ADL E400.

I would guess that could release approx 35 older vehicles for cascasde/withdrawal, possibly comprising of 2 x B6LE, 15 x Omnilink & 18 x Mercs

If so, what routes would be operated by the 10 additional Enviro400?

CV route 10, it has been confirmed on here for a while now, it sounds as though the E400's may also be in build @ ADL

[tank90]

I wonder if the 2b6le's will get transferred out of Coventry maybe to Wolverhampton as they both had a full retrim recently and have been the only two there for a while now. How many mercs are expecting to be withdrawn I'm guessing may be 10 with the 2 b6le's maybe leaving for further use elsewhere with also the 15 omnilinks leaving.

Ash,

Don't forget that there are 33 new buses due for Coventry i.e. 23 x Volvo B7RLE & 10 x ADL E400.

I would guess that could release approx 35 older vehicles for cascasde/withdrawal, possibly comprising of 2 x B6LE, 15 x Omnilink & 18 x Mercs

If so, what routes would be operated by the 10 additional Enviro400?

The 10 I think.

[Ash]

I wonder if the 2b6le's will get transferred out of Coventry maybe to Wolverhampton as they both had a full retrim recently and have been the only two there for a while now. How many mercs are expecting to be withdrawn I'm guessing may be 10 with the 2 b6le's maybe leaving for further use elsewhere with also the 15 omnilinks leaving.

Ash,

Don't forget that there are 33 new buses due for Coventry i.e. 23 x Volvo B7RLE & 10 x ADL E400.

I would guess that could release approx 35 older vehicles for cascasde/withdrawal, possibly comprising of 2 x B6LE, 15 x Omnilink & 18 x Mercs

If so, what routes would be operated by the 10 additional Enviro400?

CV route 10, it has been confirmed on here for a while now, it sounds as though the E400's may also be in build @ ADL

By a quick count theres currently 18 mercs at Coventry that are still in the Travel Coventry livery I guess these could be the ones targeted for withdrawal.

[winston]

By a quick count theres currently 18 mercs at Coventry that are still in the Travel Coventry livery I guess these could be the ones targeted for withdrawal.

The majority of those will be from the 15--/early 16-- series, but it think some of the 18 will include 1636 & 1655 which are mark II Mercs, those were originally being retained & refurb'd

[Ashley]

Are these merc withdrawals definate when the new buses arrive? At a guess, there's 33 new buses arriving which means when you've transferred the 15 omnilinks out, the two !6s will go and the remaining 16 could be tridents transferred to WM or just mercs withdrawn and if so they'd probably withdraw the ones in TC livery but some of the T and V reg ones at CV are sheds like 1680 and 1703

[Trident 4609]

It has already been said that they will be used on NXC 10

[Tony]

It has already been said that they will be used on NXC 10

That was correct when it was posted, and is probably still correct, but is still not definate. It looks like Coventry will be the first garage to get E400s from this years order (no I don't know the delivery date yet)

[Trident 4609]

Are they the only E400 on order as i'm sure i read somewhere on the forum that NX have 60 E400 on order?

[Ashley]

This may have changed since but from what I gather. The initial plan was

12 x E400H - WN
10 x E400 - CV
20 x E400 - PB
18 x - ?????

Not sure if that's accurate

[Tony]

Are they the only E400 on order as i'm sure i read somewhere on the forum that NX have 60 E400 on order?

Why would I post that Coventry's would be the first of this year's order if they were the only ones?

[Stu]

This may have changed since but from what I gather. The initial plan was

12 x E400H - WN
10 x E400 - CV
20 x E400 - PB
18 x - ?????

Not sure if that's accurate

The 12 hybrids were always a definite, but as for the 60x Enviro400s, apart from the suggested 10 for Coventry, I don't think there's been any indication yet of where the remainder would be going.

[winston]

This may have changed since but from what I gather. The initial plan was

12 x E400H - WN
10 x E400 - CV
20 x E400 - PB
18 x - ?????

Not sure if that's accurate

I was always under the impression that the E400H order was separate to the 60 standard E400's?

[Ashley]

I wasn't sure, if thats wrong then i apoligise

[winston]

I wasn't sure, if thats wrong then i apoligise

If the 12 WN E400H were included in the total of 60, then you would also need to add in the 9 presently being delivered to Dundee.

Either way, if there are infact a further 60 standard E400's on order with 130 new buses confirmed due during 2013, there is still a quantity unidentified/unconfirmed,

9 x E400H (Dundee)
12 x E400H (WN)
9 x Volvo B5LH (WN)
25 x Volvo B7RLE comprising 1 x used (2153) + 24 new ( 23 x CV, 2 x NXWM)
60 x ADL E400 (10 x CV, 50 x ?)
Total = 115, another 15 buses still to be ordered/type confirmed

[Ashley]

Thanks for that