Cannock Garage

[Bob]

A couple of pulsars on 74/75.......again....

[Bob]

Apparently 2 deckers are off the road again. Itd be 2202/2204.  Proving a bit problematic arent they those deckers,  seem to be off more than they're on!

[Bob]

Yea typo. What I put are two old stafford darts

[andyr]

Following my earlier trip on the new Sapphire 2 service and not being impressed i have decided to give it another go. Bus 3309 is awful. Gearbox is horrific, wifi not working and freezing cold. On the plus side the bus is very clean and a very good driver.

[Tony]

Following my earlier trip on the new Sapphire 2 service and not being impressed i have decided to give it another go. Bus 3309 is awful. Gearbox is horrific, wifi not working and freezing cold. On the plus side the bus is very clean and a very good driver.

That's the one that suffered the worst damage in the garage accident and has only entered service in the last week or so

[tphi12000]

Not seen / YJ54 CKE / for ages / is it in workshops being debranded like YJ54 CKF

2701 CKE noted this morning on the 70 looks to have been resprayed.

[Trident 4609]

Not seen / YJ54 CKE / for ages / is it in workshops being debranded like YJ54 CKF

2701 CKE noted this morning on the 70 looks to have been resprayed.

former 1 branded 3701 has been refurbed/resprayed too. It worked the A5 from Wolverhampton on Monday afternoon

[Bob]

Pulsar on the 74/5 again.  Take it theres at least one decker off road still. ....

[Bob]

YJ61 FEK is operating from stafford today on the 9

[Bob]

Dont really care. Maybe most of the remaining mpds. If theyre having the 825 back presumably theyll receive about half of the 61 plate pulsars

[staffsdave]

3728 was swapped at Cannock last night after doing the evening A51 Amazon runs

[John]

Wouldn't it have made sense to transfer 5 B9TLs to Cannock (4200 or 4205), so at least there is one spare and more chance of the 74/75s been completely decker operated?

[tphi12000]

maybe Derby will release a B9 when the streetdeck enters service .

[Bob]

Yea it would but this is arriva lol theres not even a spare sapphire bus so in theory if one was in for maintenance (or a couple crash in to each other lol) & one broke down you could have anything on 1 & 2.  They could do with a spare decker.

[Bob]

Following my earlier trip on the new Sapphire 2 service and not being impressed i have decided to give it another go. Bus 3309 is awful. Gearbox is horrific, wifi not working and freezing cold. On the plus side the bus is very clean and a very good driver.

Do you think maybe they might have made a naff choice with the streetlite?  Give  they're supposed to upgrade the services to a sapphire standard?  Some are slightly better than others but in general theyre crap. Terribly underpowered.