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London General 873 - Route 213 - Sutton
This bus was bought by Metrobus for routes 54/75, and once they were lost to Stagecoach it moved to Blue Triangle for school contracts. A handful of them have appeared at Sutton, probably covering for refurbishments.
Fleet number 873 is a Scania N230UD with Optare Olympus bodywork and it looks very similar to Sutton's ADL Trident based DOE class. Sutton Garage has not run Scanias before and they seem quite routebound on the 213, where a bus can quickly be swapped if a driver who is not type trained gets the bus. It will be interesting to see if they return to River Road for school services in a week or so as the loss of route 64 will have thrown up some PVL's that could now possibly be used in either location.
London General 873 - Route 213 - Sutton
This bus was bought by Metrobus for routes 54/75, and once they were lost to Stagecoach it moved to Blue Triangle for school contracts. A handful of them have appeared at Sutton, probably covering for refurbishments.
Fleet number 873 is a Scania N230UD with Optare Olympus bodywork and it looks very similar to Sutton's ADL Trident based DOE class. Sutton Garage has not run Scanias before and they seem quite routebound on the 213, where a bus can quickly be swapped if a driver who is not type trained gets the bus. It will be interesting to see if they return to River Road for school services in a week or so as the loss of route 64 will have thrown up some PVL's that could now possibly be used in either location.