erm no u are abit incorrect in some parts...
851 never had a time with no bendy (eversince it was the first
few to get bendies) and never got spammed with lances before... it
was majority o405s until the OCs came, and had 14 bendies at that
time.. (with quite a few AP)
however as the OCs came, smrt then began to reduce the bendies
to 9.. and now to 7, mainly also because to cope with WAB status
(tho i dont understand why they still have not added DDs now when
SMRT alr has more WAB HC Buses)
and the OCs are also better than having MAN A22s, as they have
higher capacity
fyi...976S was replaced by 8009J, so is still 7
anw i have feedback to smrt abt 851, so hopefully we will see a
change soon :)
'morning bro/sis 1333T
851 did have a period without bendies.
On the day of CCK handover from SBST to TIBS:
850X 851T 852R 875A 879P - WLDEP 851 > WLDEP 960
On that same day 960 was transferred from KJDEP to WLDEP. All
960 KJDEP bendies (869T. 872H etc) went to 190.
In this period the ex 851 bendies were replaced by random rigids
(of all types - O405, Scania 113, UD etc)
Only during the weekends that 856 bendies (856E, 859Y, 860S,
861P, 862L etc) did 851 in that period.
It was after the last of Mark II bendies were registered that
851 got 3 of them perm:
997G 999B 1000B > WLDEP 851
These 3 were quickly replaced by 3 Habits (of course after 190
and 960 got all the new Habits first):
1042E 1045Y 1046U > WLDEP 851
1045Y were then replaced by 1001Z.
In this period WLDEP was spamming 851 with Scanias. There were
not enough O405's to go around and the CAC's were still NAC's.
849B (perm WLDEP 960) did one trip during late morning post-peak
on 851 (9am'ish) after doing 856.
851 was then transferred back to AMDEP, with 859 going the other
way to WLDEP. As a result 851 got the 2 859 bendies in exchange for
the 3 in WLDEP:
1054X 1057M > AMDEP 851
As the Habit registrations picked up speed that 851 got the 8 or
so batch preceding the current one:
1023K 1057M 1081S 1112L 1113J 1114G 1120M 1201M 1137R 1138M
1120M and 1137R then left for AMDEP 106 with no replacement.
1201M also left, replaced by 1147L.
1114G then went to 800, replaced by 976S from 812.
In this period 1096A, 1097Y, 1098U, 1099S 1198P and 1199L
cameo'ed on 851 often. 1097Y then went to KJDEP 106. These guys
were not perm 851 as they did 61/67/854 more than 851.
In this period AMDEP was spamming 851 with very frequent and
regular Lance cameo's. 1002X, 1017D and 1018B were perm, with the
Volgren ones coming from 853. Whenever a bendy is sucked away to
61/67, it is usually replaced by a Lance or CAC cameo.
By now all the AMDEP Scania's (including ELBO CAC's) had gone to
WLDEP (secondary bus types: KJDEP - DAF, WLDEP - Scania, AMDEP -
Lance). UD's were running between all 3 depots.
Quite recently when 1023K, 1057M and 1081S left then 1096A and
1099S replaced them on a perm basis.
976S then left 851 for good half a year ago or so. Only a few
weeks ago did 8009J come in.