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Whiteway215
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Thanks for your report. Was there any sign of Hengrove's Dawson B7TLs 32229/35/37/38
No, no sign of any of them from outside.
DaveLondon
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32229 (along with 32233) are at Dawsongroup, Hellaby (per PSV Circle)
Whiteway215
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Welcome and thanks for your report.
Whiteway215
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Deckers on the Bath 3 / 3A are not that common (usually E200s) but I was quite surprised on a bank holiday to find 30877 turning up on it.
Whiteway215
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Deckers on the Bath 3 / 3A are not that common (usually E200s) but I was quite surprised on a bank holiday to find 30877 turning up on it.
TheGrandWazoo
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See there’s a few allocation changes relating to Weston depot. 4 x B9s there - all from Lawrence Hill. What’s being shipped out? Perhaps the two Eclipses heading off?
Also, 32688 has indeed gone to Wells as “predicted”
Also, 32688 has indeed gone to Wells as “predicted”
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Whilst looking for something completely different I noticed a news item on the First site about new buses in Bath from 2nd April.
https://www.firstgroup.com/bristol-...ws/brand-new-buses-join-fight-better-air-bath
Are these another batch of Solos or the same ones that arrived last September? Are First's PR team as useless as their complaints team?
https://www.firstgroup.com/bristol-...ws/brand-new-buses-join-fight-better-air-bath
Are these another batch of Solos or the same ones that arrived last September? Are First's PR team as useless as their complaints team?
TheGrandWazoo
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I suspect you know the answer!!
Tbf, the average punter won’t know they were delivered months ago.
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69441 (ME) on the 2 this afternoon - just left Cribbs Causeway (16:48 departure). It's being shown on 'Bus Times'.
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Nothing is being shipped off from Weston. The 2 B7RLEs are used on the X5 and are adequate for the boards they operate with E400s operating the busier boards.See there’s a few allocation changes relating to Weston depot. 4 x B9s there - all from Lawrence Hill. What’s being shipped out? Perhaps the two Eclipses heading off?
Also, 32688 has indeed gone to Wells as “predicted”
The B9s are down there for the summer whilst the frequency of services is lower due to the Unis being away in Bristol. They’re there to be used on the 1 and 20 during inclement weather instead of sending the ALX400 open tops out.
TheGrandWazoo
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I know the Eclipses are employed predominantly on the X5.
Just seems odd that they are sending 4 extra deckers there for inclement weather when the open toppers are only partials anyway.
The open tops are indeed only part open top, but even with this sometimes in the summer if the back half of upstairs can’t be used they overload.
This was not the main reason, they suffer from water ingress downstairs particularly in the cabs. The main reason for this was for the comfort of the drivers having to sit in them for a long time and to stop them getting cold and wet, whilst the leaks are sorted.
TheGrandWazoo
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The latter isn’t an unknown problem with open toppers but not often you have to have a whole shadow fleet!
As always at this time of year, plenty of reallocations. Noticed the 178 was 100% StreetLite. Expect more 2009 Eclipses will be heading off soon?
Guess they’ll be having a party and cake to celebrate the first anniversary of having a load of Bath hybrids sat in LH depot! With a new financial year, might we see these getting repowered? Mind you, tender is up for Bath P&R next year so be interesting to see what low emission tech might be used for that. CNG? Electric? Hydrogen?
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Whiteway215
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Steve White tells us a number of York Merc bendis are heading to Bath.I wonder what these will replace? 10036/7? The Uni liveried purple B7TLs of the 32xxx series? Or perhaps to bolster the Uni fleet from September following last year's need to hire in extra buses/coaches.
TheGrandWazoo
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Would it be the B7LAs that haven’t been subject to emissions upgrades??
ValleyLines142
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TheGrandWazoo
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Don’t know what is more remarkable!!
Whiteway215
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32688 on Bath 3 this afternoon. 32669 must have had its engine repaired then.Will 32008 have its engine repaired?See there’s a few allocation changes relating to Weston depot. 4 x B9s there - all from Lawrence Hill. What’s being shipped out? Perhaps the two Eclipses heading off?
Also, 32688 has indeed gone to Wells as “predicted”
Wessexbuses
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apparently 43905 and 53054 have been withdrawn/scrapped can anyone confirm this please
TheGrandWazoo
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69440 - it was debranded (with 69439) some months ago https://flic.kr/p/2cX6pLa odd considering that it was part of the 178 ME conversion
Edit: this has already been covered above so sorry for the duplication!
Interesting to see that Steve White reports that an ex-York Mercedes Citaro bendy bus is being trialled on the U1 in Bath. I'm a big fan of these and would welcome them. I'd be surprised if they comply with Bath's forthcoming (watered-down) clean air zone though.
Interesting to see that Steve White reports that an ex-York Mercedes Citaro bendy bus is being trialled on the U1 in Bath. I'm a big fan of these and would welcome them. I'd be surprised if they comply with Bath's forthcoming (watered-down) clean air zone though.
Whiteway215
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The first day of the trial must have been a success-11111 out and about on U1 this morning. Love the full York P&R livery but hope it doesn't confuse the students! 32688 on U2. 32673 on 172/174.
Tommy Walters
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The students won't get confusuex
The students won't get confused!! We've already had Coaster, Slow-Coaster, plain Blue, plain white, plus all the other hired in buses back in October!! Strange how it's being trialled so late in the uni year though, buses rarely run 100% full at this point with exams in full swing!!
The students won't get confused!! We've already had Coaster, Slow-Coaster, plain Blue, plain white, plus all the other hired in buses back in October!! Strange how it's being trialled so late in the uni year though, buses rarely run 100% full at this point with exams in full swing!!
Trials for the following academic year often take place late in the preceding year. Passengers number wise a bendy takes More than a decker with quicker loading/unloading so passengers number wise isn’t an issue.
Presumably it’s route testing and checking suitability
WelshBluebird
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Indeed, probably trialing it when it is quieter so any kinks / issues can be worked out before it gets crazy busy!
NorthernSpirit
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They probably would have been suprised to see York based fleet in Bath, similar to how suprised I was when seeing First Leeds skylines in Bristol in December. Really I should post this in the First West Yorkshire and York thread but I do think that First Leeds is dispensing with the Leeds skylines livery and replacing it with the LeedsCity livery instead, similar to how the Badgerline brand is used for Weston town services.
These Citario's should still have their First York P&R route diagrams in them which are located where the internal advertising is normally stuck, as the Turquoise Line diagram is slightly different to all the others (clue: look at the First logo on them).