Is Empress Road an additional deposit, or is it replacing others ,?
As far as I can tell from bustimes and a chat with a driver, it looks like nearly all of Eastleighs Bluestar operations have moved into Empress road, apparently all Unilink operations are still based at Eastleigh.
On bustimes the depot code has changed to SO (bar any vehicle which happened to be off the road today).
I am unsure about where the School/College routes operation is based, most of these were marked SO, today, again not sure about the new 'ZOO' route.
Totton depot operation appears to be unchanged.
I make the new PVR out of Empress road to be @76 + school routes if based, Also it appears that route 4 is still operated by both Totton & Empress road.
If bustimes is to be believed, then Empress road now operates routes 1, 2, 3, 4(part) 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18,19, 20, QC, 36, + some/all of the school routes.
Empress roads allocation is 27 single deck, made up of 14 E200MMC, 8 ex Swindon Versa, 5 Scania single deck & 1 (out of service). Volvo B7RLE.
There are at least 59 double deckers, made up of 46 E40D (all models)+ 13 B7TL/Plaxton.
2 B7TL East Lancs & 17 Scania deckers(2 types)may be allocated or may still be at Eastleigh?
Would be very happy for someone with more inside knowledge to correct or update!!