Recent content by Tommy Walters

Speaking of Bath deckers, I struggle to believe that 33497 from Bristol is doing a Bath U1 today. Feel free to prove me wrong!

The Exeter open tops are used so little as it is anyway, I don't really see the point of having them. Usually an E400 does the circuit most days. Unfortunately I can't see that being a sustainable service in the future. The Dartmoor Explorer likewise. I keep trying to do a trip on that on a...

I'd imagine they'd take a Solo from Exeter, especially given the fact more of them are now in working order. No doubt it would be based at Tiverton outstation (although I don't know what the capacity of that is). On an unrelated note, I rode on the 95 for the first time this year yesterday...

It was mentioned: "New Service 44/44A will operate between Exeter and Honiton / Axminster under contract to Devon County Council, providing a replacement for current Service 4/4A/4B." Essentially the 44 is the 4A renumbered, albeit running down London Road in Cranbrook (as per the current 1905...

So the 4 isn't being axed beyond Cranbrook, merely being replaced by the new 44/44A. If anything this is a slight improvement between Exeter-Cranbrook with 5bph at times (albeit up to 2 only serving the main road). It will also mean a faster service for passengers from Ottery etc.

E200 44526 worked a Bath 6/7/11/12 diagram last week. I didn't think that this was possible due to tight clearances on the 7. Has something changed recently or was this a complete fluke?

I noticed 166217 made it to Plymouth this morning on 2C05, with passengers needing to change there onto a Castle HST to continue to Penzance. Might this be the first 166 that's operated to Plymouth in passenger service?

Looks as if 37326 & 37626 have both been sent to Bath to cover shortages now that the Unis are back.

This was a problem for virtually every vehicle that had it. There were subtle differences in the paintwork on the old bendibuses if you looked closely. Looked like they used one shade to repaint the first couple, and another for the rest!

Unexpected repaint : 33949 has gone into BathCity Blue!

I note there was a fire on a bus near Ottery on Wednesday, which burnt it out completely. Looking the tracker details it would appear to be 36250 that was involved.

I think 69253 is the only older bodied B7RLE still active (excluding trainers) now. Most of the HE ones don't appear to be out currently.

Weird thing about these is that the branding is just plain "Citylines" . Whether anything will be added in due course I do not know.

This hasn't been reported here yet, but 39472 has been repainted into a rather smart looking "Pride" livery. It now seems to work the 1/2/2a rather than it's original 73 as well!

Interestingly former WoE 32329/30/43 have all received familiar new numberplates down in Weymouth. 32329 - 620 HOD (former 32001) 32330 - KFX 791 (former 32006) 32343 - TPR 354 (former 32007) With WYY 752 & RKZ 4760 having been previously mentioned as already in use by two open tops down...