Alexander Dennis Enviro400 Discussion

[lauren1993]

Are the Geminis leaving!? Someone please tell me, I'm getting worried now!  :(  Anyone...?

[winston]

Are the Geminis leaving!? Someone please tell me, I'm getting worried now!  :(  Anyone...?

Doubt it, they will more than likely cascade the Gemini's on to other routes and withdraw Mercs instead

[JPC]

Bearing in mind any cascading to the West Midlands requires the cost of repainting or covering the sky-blue in red, I would hope and expect the new Enviros will just replace end of life Mercs, not to mention bolster the double-deck allocation :D.  Coventry's Geminis will hopefully find themselves a new niche, service 10 would be nice. 8)

[Stevo]

So that's 56 Enviro 400s accounted for so far, is this the complete order for 2014?

[Stevo]

I meant to say in my last post that we know the CV E400s are the 'old' type and I thought NXWM expected some new-style E400s this year. Perhaps the first new-style E400s won't be here till 2015.

[Tony]

Are the Geminis leaving!? Someone please tell me, I'm getting worried now!  :(  Anyone...?

Doubt it, they will more than likely cascade the Gemini's on to other routes and withdraw Mercs instead

The Commercial Director's staff 'business brief' newsletter today says they are to replace Mercedes.

[lauren1993]

Are the Geminis leaving!? Someone please tell me, I'm getting worried now!  :(  Anyone...?

Doubt it, they will more than likely cascade the Gemini's on to other routes and withdraw Mercs instead

The Commercial Director's staff 'business brief' newsletter today says they are to replace Mercedes.

Thank god for that! It would be beyond stupid to keep the mercs and transfer the Geminis. I still think they should've kept the Scanias allowing an extra 15 Mercs to be withdrawn last year.

[Sh4318]

Are the Geminis leaving!? Someone please tell me, I'm getting worried now!  :(  Anyone...?

Doubt it, they will more than likely cascade the Gemini's on to other routes and withdraw Mercs instead

The Commercial Director's staff 'business brief' newsletter today says they are to replace Mercedes.

Thank god for that! It would be beyond stupid to keep the mercs and transfer the Geminis. I still think they should've kept the Scanias allowing an extra 15 Mercs to be withdrawn last year.

But then B10Ls still would've been at PB

[lauren1993]

Are the Geminis leaving!? Someone please tell me, I'm getting worried now!  :(  Anyone...?

Doubt it, they will more than likely cascade the Gemini's on to other routes and withdraw Mercs instead

The Commercial Director's staff 'business brief' newsletter today says they are to replace Mercedes.

Thank god for that! It would be beyond stupid to keep the mercs and transfer the Geminis. I still think they should've kept the Scanias allowing an extra 15 Mercs to be withdrawn last year.

But then B10Ls still would've been at PB

PB could have replaced them with their new enviros they received last year and kept some of the older ones also and put them on the 952 etc freeing up their scanias for the 66? Or they could've kept their ex Dundee ones and 1837?

[Sh4318]

Are the Geminis leaving!? Someone please tell me, I'm getting worried now!  :(  Anyone...?

Doubt it, they will more than likely cascade the Gemini's on to other routes and withdraw Mercs instead

The Commercial Director's staff 'business brief' newsletter today says they are to replace Mercedes.

Thank god for that! It would be beyond stupid to keep the mercs and transfer the Geminis. I still think they should've kept the Scanias allowing an extra 15 Mercs to be withdrawn last year.

But then B10Ls still would've been at PB

PB could have replaced them with their new enviros they received last year and kept some of the older ones also and put them on the 952 etc freeing up their scanias for the 66? Or they could've kept their ex Dundee ones and 1837?

But then would Yardley Wood have received 4718-4732 and WB got 4247-4250 from PB, which then allowed YW and WB to withdrawn some of their older vehicles respectively.

[Ashley]

Pls you couldn't have b10's as the main allocation of the 952 because of the emission zone

[don]

Are the Geminis leaving!? Someone please tell me, I'm getting worried now!  :(  Anyone...?

Doubt it, they will more than likely cascade the Gemini's on to other routes and withdraw Mercs instead

The Commercial Director's staff 'business brief' newsletter today says they are to replace Mercedes.

Thank god for that! It would be beyond stupid to keep the mercs and transfer the Geminis. I still think they should've kept the Scanias allowing an extra 15 Mercs to be withdrawn last year.

I can only think that last years complex cascade of vehicles, which ultimately replaced Mercs and maybe odd B10 and B6 was done because the remaining CV Mercs were in better condition than those replaced elsewhere.

[lauren1993]

They could've transferred 15 Tridents from CV to YW, allowing them to transfer Scanias to PB?

[winston]

They could've transferred 15 Tridents from CV to YW, allowing them to transfer Scanias to PB?

YW doesn't want to loose it's Omnilinks from the 6

[Liberator9]

They could've transferred 15 Tridents from CV to YW, allowing them to transfer Scanias to PB?

YW doesn't want to loose it's Omnilinks from the 6

YW does not need any more old buses - in particular not Tridents! I'd welcome any bus to YW apart from any more Tridents. I'm hoping at some point some more Scanias will make the transfer over when the sad day comes when B10Ls are withdrawn at YW.