Post by pricel on Mar 3, 2024 18:39:17 GMT 1
Mar 3, 2024 18:34:41 GMT 1 @delboy said:
Some parts of me wished that Yorkshire Tiger merged with Arriva Yorkshire. The fleet would be far more interesting if that were the case and would be helpful as the 377/8 and 571 wouldn't have ridiculous milage amount to do if Arriva still owned Waterloo and Elland depots.
To get Yorkshire Tiger to Arriva's standards in fleet I would have done a full fleet renumbering, and still gotten rid of all the Optare Solos, Spectra, Lowlanders, the ex London Gemini and of course the Cadets and Commanders as all those types of vehicles have been withdrawn in the main Arriva fleet. In replacement, investment in new vehicles would take place to both the ex Yorkshire Tiger fleet and Arriva Yorkshire main fleet.
Starting with the ex Flying Tiger Buses, instead of sending them to Castleford I would have repainted them into journey mark livery and would have sent them to Elland depot to join Versas 1005 (201) and 1006 (202). However these 2 tiger liveried versas would be renumbered 0796 and 0797. These would have replaced the Commanders, and Tempos allowing the Optare Tempos to move to Waterloo depot.
With growing demand for double deckers on the ex tiger routes I would bring in some more double deckers for usage on 20, 21, 231, 232, 233 and 502. Also since the fleet of Yorkshire Tiger double deckers was quite old I would have replaced them as well. This would mean a total estimate of around 28 double deckers being in the ex Yorkshire Tiger fleet. As PVR for 233 is 5, PVR for 231/2 is 6, PVR of 502 is 2, PVR of 20/21 I would be ensure about but I'd say around 4 and then the previous Yorkshire Tiger deckers there were 6 of them and then a couple spare. I would bring in a mixture of Gemini 2s and Enviro 400s. I would take 8 Gemini 2s from Heckmondwike depot (1545 - 1552) and then Enviro 400s 1930 - 1939 from Heckmondwike and 1960 - 1970 to the ex Yorkshire Tiger fleet. For the single deckers, I would send the Centros to Elland depot to replace a couple of the solos, as only 3 routes really require small vehicles in Elland depot which are 561/2 and 577 (but realistically you can fit a coach on those routes as they always did in the 90s). Solos 0406 - 0410 will also transfer to Elland for the 561/2 and 577, as well as 1001 - 1005 little E200s, with Solos 3050 - 3053 transferring to Waterloo for usage on 303/4 and 377/8. I would still leave the YK08/YJ08 and YJ59 N** batch for original Solos with them receiving Journey Mark livery.
Fleet allocations:
Sapphire 163/166 E400 MMCs repainted into journey mark to Waterloo
Enviro 400s 1930 - 1935 to Waterloo, 1936 - 1940 to Elland
Gemini 2s to Elland
Enviro 200 Mini 1001 - 1005 to Elland, 1006 to 1010
Optare Solos 0406 - 0410 to Elland, 3050 - 3052 for Waterloo
The Centros renumbered from 627, 719 - 724 and 727 to 1201 - 1207 transferred to Elland replacing old Solos
The ex Tiger tempos for Waterloo
Versa 0791 - 0797 at Elland
Solos 310 - 322 at Elland
Solos 28** at Elland
Pulsar 2s 1488 - 1494 to Waterloo
In replacement of the loss of Castleford and Heckmondwike buses, brand new double deckers will be purchased for the 163 and 229 with the 163 receiving a batch of 11 new Streetdecks numbered 1578 - 1589 and then new a fleet of new E400 MMCs for Sapphire 229. For the loss of mini E200s and Pulsar 2s some new short wheel base Evoras would be purchased for Dewsbury Depot for 230/230A and 250 also doing a few extras.
Allocations in routes:
Waterloo
83/84 Pulsar 2s
231/2 Enviro 400 MMCs Journey Mark with branding for 231/2, and 5 being spares
233 Any double decker allocations
260/1 transferred to Waterloo with Pulsar 2s
303/4 Solo SRs and E200 Minis
360 Pulsar 2s
435/6/7 to Wakefield depot, but an average allocation mixture of any Wakefield vehicles longer than the E200 Minis
377/8 transferred to Waterloo and Solo SRs and E200 Minis
356/8 and FTB will be allocated anything spare
Elland
20/21/22 inter working with Any double decker allocation or longer single decker allo with some 22s interworking 343
502 Any double decker allocations
524 Centros inter working 587
526 Centros inter working 574
530 Solos and Mini E200s inter working 577
532 Solos and Mini E200s inter working 534
546 Solos and Mini E200s inter working 561/2
563 Solos and Mini E200s, occasionally double deckers and Centros
571 transferred to Elland, interworking 20/21/22/343 with a mixture of Centros and double deckers