A blazing fleet

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Three of the newly-delivered Optare Versa 11.7m on route 6/7 based at Blackburn depot are seen here. CHRIS NEWTON

There’s a relatively high degree of standardisation within the Transdev Blazefield fleet. Older single-deckers are heavy-duty Volvos, either B10BLEs and B7RLEs while the majority of double-deckers are also Volvos, a mix of B7TLs, B9TLs and recently delivered B5TLs. Newer single-deckers have usually been sourced from Optare although there’s a small number of Wrightbus StreetLites.

Notable is a batch of […]

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