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Are SWT 444s and 450s due any sort of 10 year overhaul?

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SpacePhoenix

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I would imagine they shall eventually receive the updated SWT 'Express' livery as seen on 159103

https://www.flickr.com/photos/ukbuses/18057853595/sizes/k/

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Don't think they look so nice with yellow passenger doors, could they not have stuck with orange doors?

[quote="Monty, post: 2184918"]The real problem is that a number of our carriage washers are currently broken and have been for some time. From what I have been told there are issues in obtaining new parts for them. The 450s hide the dirt quite well but the 444s not so much. Externally they don't need a repaint just a good clean.[/QUOTE]

Was the manufacture of the carriage washers discontinued many years ago? Could SWTs have their own engineers manufacturer some of the spares needed?
 
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Monty

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I don't think SWT's engineers have access to machine tools?

I doubt they would have skills either since our engineers focus on the maintenance of rolling stock and not carriage washers. ;)

Short answer to SpacePhoenix's question is a "I don't know."
 
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