Wonder why it keeps breaking down?
It was not used much when it was at Aberdeen before.
Stagecoach E400s do have a habit of catching fire though!
The Glasgow E400s have had a lot of hill-climbing for routes before. So no wonder some of them might be a little knackered.
Aberdeen haven’t had much luck these past few years. In hein sight - the city wasn’t ready for Hydrogen or should I say not as many hydrogen buses.
This surprises no one really.
It's not that that city isn't ready for Hydrogen, the issues have been nothing to do with Hydrogen technology itself. Its just incompetence for those running it, it surely can't be a surprise to anyone that this is happening when you consider there's only one pump and its a decade old. Furthermore they ordered an additional 10 buses (bringing the total to 25) when they knew they only had capacity to refuel 18.
Aberdeen have been short on buses ever since fleet decisions moved higher up. It also doesn't help that buses are continuously being taken from the fleet without replacements, a perfect example of that right now are the Streetlites which are being withdrawn and transferred to Bristol despite the fact that their replacements (the return of more Streetdecks) is still yet to happen. Additionally the Enviro400s are proving significantly less reliable than the Enviro500s they replaced.
The 10 additional hydrogen buses were funded by the Scottish Government to make the new green hydrogen plant viable. There was really no need for them to come when they did anyway.
33919 has returned from repaint and is in the First Supoorting Pride livery.
63206 is the latest Streetlite to have transferred to Bristol (Hengrove Depot) despite the fact it only returned from repaint in to Aberdeen Urban livery last Wednesday.... You couldn't make these things up!
How come? Looks stylish I think
They're referring to Streetlite 63206, not the Pride livery E400.
Ah I see, misread the message!
Nice to see the Pride livery on another model. I wonder if the plan is to have more done - a Streetdeck perhaps once they start getting fed properly33919 has returned from repaint and is in the First Supoorting Pride livery.
63206 is the latest Streetlite to have transferred to Bristol (Hengrove Depot) despite the fact it only returned from repaint in to Aberdeen Urban livery last Wednesday.... You couldn't make these things up!
Looks really nice in the pride livery to be honest33919 has returned from repaint and is in the First Supoorting Pride livery.
63206 is the latest Streetlite to have transferred to Bristol (Hengrove Depot) despite the fact it only returned from repaint in to Aberdeen Urban livery last Wednesday.... You couldn't make these things up!
Virtually any route and it varies day to day ( that is one day a duty will have an electric bus and the next day a diesel bus), so no help really. They are supposed to be on the 12, 20 and 23 but that did not last long.
They're on every route, they last a full day no issues.
When i went i saw them on the number 3/3A pretty often
Agreed, Glasgow has the same problem. You can track what duties they did but not actually track them on the map like you can with Stagecoach
This can only be good news after years off the road. Are the rest of the batch due back or just a handful?
It is not that good news really, about half of the existing ones in Aberdeen have been out of service for some time, so they will just be replacing them at present (until they can be repaired).
Interesting move on the E400s although wouldn’t it make more sense to just move the remaining E400s from Glasgow to join their sister buses?
Presumably Glasgow still want low height deckers for the 6, the Manchester E400s are full height.
