A brief encounter
Just as I'd managed to catch up with an old friend from back 'home', so it is that she is taken away from me again - and how prematurely! Dennis Dart R460 CCV was unfortunately within the next batch to be withdrawn and taken away for scrap, pictured here resting before her final journey, in Old Fieldhouse Lane Depot. Somewhat frustrating in that I never actually got to ride on her to 'remind me of home' before she was withdrawn. As Nathan picked up on last week though, its so surprising that all these relitively young, low floor vehicles are being withdrawn up here, while down in Devon and Cornwall, more and more step entrance vehicles have been added to the fleet in recent months, including increasing numbers of the K-LAE batch of Leyland Olympians, and N reg step entrance Dennis Darts from Bristol. Why not send R460 back home to join her sisters, who have returned home to Plymouth after spending time in Barnstaple over the last few years, until its unfortunate closure this month. I'm sure she'd be most welcome!
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A sad end for R460CCV, no doubt if she had stayed in Plymouth it would still be in service now!
Since FDC is part of the operation First would be keen to get a buyer for its no wonder there is miminal investment, the fact the repainted B6BLE YJ51 RJX still hasn't had fleet names applied suggests either they cannot decide on a name or are in limbo as to bother branding up an operation which may eventually be sold....
And I've noticed the First Kernow rebranding in Cornwall seems to have ground to a halt.
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