It's been like this for the best part of a decade now ever since they stopped using artics on the 1/2 in the evening. Sundays were the same although they do at least tend to use the Hydroliners now.
Can only assume it was an error.
It was 33904 tonight. Quite a long duty for the vehicle considering it left the depot to start on the 20 at 7am.
Would the bus have been refuelled during the day at some point or would it have had enough to run for almost 21hrs?
It has been out all day. 33901 was the other bus on the 20 yesterday (14th)
Easily doable for a bus round a city.
Even the Yutongs could likely do it considering they're often out on higher mileage routes for comparable periods of time, although unlikely considering the duty is booked to be decker operated.
They were taken off fleet over the weekend. As per the other withdrawn Euro 6 B7RLEs they will transfer to the Glasgow training fleet if required.
That specific duty is usually E500 or Citaro operated. 'All The Ones' (Citaro 11111) was on the same duty the week prior (16th).
38204 and 38214 are the E500s in question. Three more are due to come off this week.
You know they're short when they're putting coaches out!
Apparently they have done this before when short.
The coaches are hardly in a fit state either! While people were disembarking from 20613 at Castle street the stairs by the door collapsed with the driver having to kick them back into place.
Use First Glasgow and its lacklustre electric fleet as a reference point, they would not have done anything different, guaranteed.
The issues with the Vanhools were not related to the Hydrogen technology but rather the non-Hydrogen related components of the vehicles themselves.
Irrelevant if the buses can’t turn up.
It does not have the capacity to fuel buses. It was only designed to supply cars and vans.
