TheGrandWazoo
Veteran Member
I agree that 54 and 377 will not interwork.
As you may know there is an 0729 and 0730 377 from Yeovil. Possibly a case could be made to replace these two with one decker. But otherwise no need for deckers on 377, although the possibility is there.
The most interesting thing for me is from where the 77 will operate. If Wells continue to run the service as a BoS outstation, whats the point of changing companies?
If Yeovil were to be the base then maybe the rumour for the last couple of years about Yeovil joining BoS could be true.
We shall see.
Lots of what ifs and speculation at the moment and we will have to see, as you say.
IF Yeovil were to move to BoS, then you'd be expecting a raft of other registrations for the Yeovil town plus 57/58 as well to move it from FHD. Yeovil has done quite well in terms of fleet improvements with FHD but additional work would support that depot if the 377 were worked from there. It has never been the same since it lost the 54 work (though the decline of Yeovil has been apparent over many years with the 52 and 61 among others).
The 377 doesn't need deckers but then again, the 54 doesn't really (save Taunton college runs apparently). Remember 10 years ago when it was 4 x B7RLEs. It "appears" that they tend to have deckers on there mainly because they're available not because of loadings.
Once the timetables appear on Traveline, that will help shed some light on things. Also, when appropriate, FSW Official may also provide some info.
Whatever the truth ACTUALLY is (rather than our idle speculation), it is certainly another interesting development in the battle with Webberbus
EDIT: Wonder if the X reg MPDs might get DDA upgraded for some of this work. Then again, why spend on 16 year old vehicles?
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