RustySpoons
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Transdev Blazefield is always a good source of discussion, and with a few different but quite specific threads I think it's better to have a dedicated thread to keep everything in one place.
In East Lancashire where I spend a lot of my time we've got Lancashire United and Burnley & Pendle, or Blackburn Bus Co and Burnley Bus Co as they prefer to be called as well as Rosso, with the latter operating from both Blackburn and Burnley depots as well as Rochdale.
Incoming 'soon' are a new fleet of ADL 200MMCs for Blackburn for the 1 route between Bolton and Blackburn. Not much has been announced yet, but they're apparently going to be 'game changers'. We shall see!
Meanwhile in Burnley we've seen the biggest change to the Mainline in many years. Instead of operating between Padiham and Colne every 7 or 8 minutes, the service splits at Burnley now. It makes it a lot easier to run and maintain a reliable service, although there have been quite a lot of complaints about buses running to capacity at rush hour.
There's also an increasingly eclectic fleet of buses operating on local services. As well as the B10BLEs, there's Dart MPDs, Tridents, Versas as well as a couple of MAN Enviro200s displaced from York, all operating in a variety of colours and liveries. How long they'll last I'm not sure. As good as the B10s are they aren't really suited to local work, being too big for a lot of the routes they operate. As to what will replaced them and when, well that's anybodies guess.
Over in Yorkshire there were a fleet of Streetdecks on order for the York depot to replace the tired B7TLs on CityZap, but with the ongoing financial issues at Wrightbus I'm lead to believe these are no longer coming, instead the order has been swapped to fleet of ADL 400MMCs, although nothing has been confirmed.
One thing Transdev seem to be good at is marketing their products to be 'amazing'. However in my own personal opinion they're only as good as other leading operators. I don't think there has been anything that's truly changed the game as much as Blazefield did back in the day. But that's just my opinion, obviously!
In East Lancashire where I spend a lot of my time we've got Lancashire United and Burnley & Pendle, or Blackburn Bus Co and Burnley Bus Co as they prefer to be called as well as Rosso, with the latter operating from both Blackburn and Burnley depots as well as Rochdale.
Incoming 'soon' are a new fleet of ADL 200MMCs for Blackburn for the 1 route between Bolton and Blackburn. Not much has been announced yet, but they're apparently going to be 'game changers'. We shall see!
Meanwhile in Burnley we've seen the biggest change to the Mainline in many years. Instead of operating between Padiham and Colne every 7 or 8 minutes, the service splits at Burnley now. It makes it a lot easier to run and maintain a reliable service, although there have been quite a lot of complaints about buses running to capacity at rush hour.
There's also an increasingly eclectic fleet of buses operating on local services. As well as the B10BLEs, there's Dart MPDs, Tridents, Versas as well as a couple of MAN Enviro200s displaced from York, all operating in a variety of colours and liveries. How long they'll last I'm not sure. As good as the B10s are they aren't really suited to local work, being too big for a lot of the routes they operate. As to what will replaced them and when, well that's anybodies guess.
Over in Yorkshire there were a fleet of Streetdecks on order for the York depot to replace the tired B7TLs on CityZap, but with the ongoing financial issues at Wrightbus I'm lead to believe these are no longer coming, instead the order has been swapped to fleet of ADL 400MMCs, although nothing has been confirmed.
One thing Transdev seem to be good at is marketing their products to be 'amazing'. However in my own personal opinion they're only as good as other leading operators. I don't think there has been anything that's truly changed the game as much as Blazefield did back in the day. But that's just my opinion, obviously!
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