Cascades

With the sale of First Groups London operations expected to go ahead to does seem that the never ending stream of ex London double deckers available for cascade to other First Group fleets could be coming to an end. First group, more than any of the other big groups has made good use of its London stock. Of course this is partly as a result of the group policy not to sell its redundant buses to any other operators, preferring to scrap them instead.

First Devon & Cornwall has received quite a few ex London Tridents over the last few years:

32803 was first used in full London red livery on the new Park & Ride service March 2006

the same bus had received Barbie livery by August 2006 but was still reserved for Park & Ride use



32812 T812LLC having been repainted into full Barbie livery yet still dual doored on Plymouth Park & Ride duties August 2006.

By September 2008 32812 was in Mayflower Link livery and had been converted to single doorway.
32851 was one of several Tridents which received new HIG registrations. January 2010

Newer 02 Reg Trident 33175 LR02LYU March 2010

Of course its not just London  Dennis Tridents that have ended up with First in Plymouth as we will see shortly…

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