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It's not Wrightbus that are in the wrong here, their product works. It's Aberdeen Council that provide the Hydrogen pump and they haven't planned for the usuage. I'd like to think there is plans in place to expand this?

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGe5WBkXY/ Link above is to a video by Zak on TikTok explaining things better, it’s the 1st First bus in Scotland in this livery and will be appearing in a marketing video.

https://engage.stirling.gov.uk/projects/stirling-council-budget

Not McGill's that are looking to make these cuts however, these are the proposed cuts by Stirling council to the supported services to try and balance the budget

That may be the challenge, I don't know the ins and outs of the Edinburgh LEZ but there is an exemption for historical vehicles normally in them, the question would be is either E322MSG and P285PSX exempt by this to allow them in? Older ones like RM242 (VLT242), 314 (JWS594), 777 (OFS777) and...

They may have the two Scotrail liveried Enviros, I do seem to remember they were provided to WCM by Scotrail so they may pass with the contract.

G63 was Central RC, but it’s not specifically just Blane Valley, it’s also the Endrick Valley.

Yes, under normal conditions the M8 westbound changes from 50 to 70 at the Govan junction with Helen Street and then back down to 60 between the Paisley Airport. And the same in reverse roughly, though the 40mph average speed cameras are a bit of a speed killer just now, I think the road works...

The Volvo replacement for the B10BLE was initially the B7L chassis which was in a vertical layout which created an almost toilet cubicle look to the back end of the Wright bodywork, not sure how it looked with other bodybuilders, the only other B7L I can think of off the top of me head was...

It is also possibly to do with school services around Balfron that pass through Balfron Station, as there is a water aqueduct that carries water from Loch Katrine to Glasgow on the A81 that is 4.5m/14'9". It was one of the reasons for mainly the Metrobuses, followed by certain Olympians and then...

Caught 65106 on the 34 the other day https://www.flickr.com/photos/andymcvean/52832726773/

One other factor for McGill’s may be slack in the fleet at the moment. As has been mentioned previously in this thread that the fleet as a whole was in pretty poor condition. Therefore I’d guess demand is high on vehicles cycling through maintenance and out maintaining services, over painting...

That does make you wonder what the replacement options will be when the time comes, especially given the location of the batteries on electric buses.

They have tried a Yutong around a good part of the network, even on some of the longer routes like the X10. It would be interesting to know how suitable it turned out to be. What would be a good purchase for the Geminis and Omnidekka replacements? Future thoughts in mind would be how much of a...

I think I remember seeing somewhere that the original 2850-2855 were going to renumber into the 2900 serires along with the Midland, ex Aberdeen B9TL's. Not sure about 0405 and 0406 though. I would imagine that most of the buses that still 'carry' the old fleet numbers probably have actually...

I’m pretty sure the 68 plates aren’t subject to any funding due to them being straight diesel buses unlike the BYD/ADL electric doubles that Glasgow got. It’s just unfortunately standard from First, cherry picking the good stuff and sending in rubbish to replace before sale. I would have thought...

From all of this though, it's nice to see from McGill's a nod to heritage with the Midland Bluebird and Eastern Scottish names reappearing.

Cheers, turns out I'd missed 221-250 as well, the new open tops for the tours. Closes off two bigger gaps along with 195-199, though we appear to have a whole year 2 registration periods between 19 & 70 and 04 & 55 which would be technically a whole year between without deliveries given there is...

For anybody interested, done a bit of an overview of deliveries since the X suffix registrations, 22 71 Volvo B5TL/ADL 651-698 21 Volvo B5TL/ADL 601-650, BYD/ADL 291-294 70 Volvo B8RLE/MCW 66-95 20 69 19 Volvo B8L/ADL 1064-1140, Motorcoaches Volvo B11R/Plaxton 9006-9011, Green Arrow Volvo...

Probably more likely it could be heading back to Glasgow from one of the group's Borders depots? Could have been engineering reasons or trials? They did run an open topper in the borders a couple of years ago.