Temple Meads
Established Member
Out of curiosity, does anyone know whether the service operators, National Express, Mega bus and Citylink, or their partners might have any spare coaches to cover RRB work?
Not many - you may find a few former front line NX vehicles that have been cascaded into their contractors' main fleets, but other than that there isn't much spare capacity with the express operations.
Nat Ex don't like coaches in their livery being used on other work anyway - it could lead to termination of the contract, and it's hard to see NX agreeing to operators helping out their main competition.