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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    Yes, on the Fisher nuclear berth (I believe they're still in use but probably haven't seen a train in a long time since the last load of waste was returned to Japan). Getting them onto road transport is the easy bit, getting them out of Barrow might be slightly harder and disruptive....not sure...
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    TfGM Bee Network - fleet updates (repaints etc.)

    Yes. Different chassis too, which rather explains the fleetnumbers!
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    Storm Desmond later in 2015 also really focussed minds as to how important the pumps are!
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    Derailment near Grange Over Sands

    The culvert wasn't blocked because it started to collapse, but because the tides have pushed too much silt up against the outfall. The outlet in question is somewhere under the pool of water in @strawberryline 's image in post #141 above. The pump pipes were dropped into the same marsh channel...
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    Stagecoach Merseyside Cheshire and South Lancashire

    Fife, although it's now not a Stagecoach vehicle - it's been purchased by Peoplesbus who are starting up again. Presumably only at Gillmoss for MOT.
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    Volvo B8RLE MCV Evora

    Does 90-something vehicles over 2 years count as very small? Certainly not a big seller, but not really low numbers either....
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    Stagecoach Cumbria and North Lancashire

    Lindale. The hill was somewhat of a challenge...
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    Why do major European bus manufacturers still avoid the UK?

    I should probably have expanded on that. 4.2m is the maximum height permitted under the Road Vehicles Construction & Use regulations. Buses have an exemption up to 4.57m, but in practice the 4.2m is the de facto standard to avoid buses becoming tree collectors. Still doesn't change the fact...
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    Why do major European bus manufacturers still avoid the UK?

    The obvious answer that I'm surprised hasn't been mentioned yet, is height. The UK generally is more into the double deck concept that mainland Europe, and DD products are expected to make full use of our 4.2m max height. This makes transporting anything across the continent, with its 4m max...
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    Bus Manufacturer News & Discussion

    Or is this just Plaxton saying that they've got a decent MoD order for the next couple of years, and that any smaller orders will be fitted around that?
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    Stagecoach Cumbria and North Lancashire

    East Scotland taking these, not Cumbria. The group no longer exists.
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    Stagecoach East Scotland

    It's only an inference from the wording of the fleetcard, but the strong suggestion is they will all be moving along with the pair of Solo SRs. Seems East Scotland are standardising on Scanias for whatever reason - they have another batch of E400s moving up from Kent too. While I can make sense...
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    Stagecoach North Scotland (Bluebird and Highland)

    27917 is a transfer to Bluebird per the fleetcard. Cumbria have taken 36047/69, 27811/916.
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    Stagecoach East Scotland

    Looks like the entirety of Highland's Scania E300s are heading down to Fife - fleetcard reports 28604 and 28647 moving in addition to those already mentioned. Leaves just 28602/43/45/50 at Inverness.
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    Stagecoach acquisitions since 2000

    I'll tick off some of the bigger ones; Traction Group (Yorkshire Traction/Lincolnshire RoadCar/Strathtay), 2005 Glenvale Transport, Liverpool, 2005 (now the main legal entity for Stagecoach Merseyside, Chester & South Lancs) Cooks Coaches, Somerset, 2007 Cavalier Travel, Long Sutton, 2008...
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    Stagecoach North Scotland (Bluebird and Highland)

    Looks like 59223 is intended to be used on school work alongside the Explorers. Possibly to try and standardise chassis types at Tain? 59226 is listed as on loan from Highlands to Peterhead for "campaign float", which I'd take to be some mods to the Interdecks??
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    Stagecoach North Scotland (Bluebird and Highland)

    Looks like ex-South Gloucester Scania Levante 59223 has turned up at Inverness. I wonder if more of that batch are expected?
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    Stagecoach East Scotland

    15637/9/40-3/57 are also on the way up from SC East. Given the size of Manchester's cascade pool at the moment (all of 19621-40, plus others), don't be surprised to see more MAN E400s heading up as well.
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    Stagecoach North Scotland (Bluebird and Highland)

    I wonder how many miles 53636-45 (the KX61s) have clocked up now? They were the original Megabus Europe vehicles before spending time on the domestic network, so they must have a lot of miles on the clocks!
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    Stagecoach East (Bedford, Cambridge, Huntingdon and Peterborough)

    I don't believe they were tagged onto a London order - Macquarie had purchased the ops by that point - it was more a case of the easiest/most cost effective way of ordering dual-door E400s was to ask for TfL spec without the aircon and iBus, and with LED destination displays vice rollers.

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