Bus Shite

[willswitchengage]

I guess at the end of the day white is the cheapest and most future-proof colour and minimal vinyls are easy to apply. Places like Manchester will become boring as all the buses will become white - First's recent refresh is very dull too. Again, I preferred the strong colours of the old blue/pink livery. At least the London buses look smart and are easily recogisable in that deep red colour.

[LightBulbFun]

for me its a bit too pastel, I prefer the deep vibrant colours of the old stagecoach livery

but that shouldn't come as a surprise, as I grew up with it, most of East London's bus routes where tendered by stagecoach!

I personally miss the old swirls round the back, it contrasted well with the overall red that London buses are  

[Asimo]

Where are the  "zero-emisions" busses**to come from?   

Are there any (that aren't a trolley-bus)?   

Or is this just a bit of Boris-spin?

**Is busses really the plural of bus?

[martc]

47 minutes ago, Asimo said:

Where are the  "zero-emisions" busses**to come from?   

Are there any (that aren't a trolley-bus)?   

Or is this just a bit of Boris-spin?

**Is busses really the plural of bus?

One is old hat, the other the future, can you guess which is which?

[Crackers]

Possibly one for the EBAY BARGINZ thread. 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/bedford-Val-italian-job-bus-mini-doormobile-business-venture-collector-classic/283776210462

Strewth. 

[Inspector Morose]

Dubiously obtained registration included as well? 

[busmansholiday]

Stagecoach's new app is good as it now gives you live tracking of buses. Just sat in the pub and it looks pretty as accurate for what's going past me.

[willswitchengage]

On 2/12/2020 at 11:36 AM, Asimo said:

Where are the  "zero-emisions" busses**to come from?   

Are there any (that aren't a trolley-bus)?   

Or is this just a bit of Boris-spin?

**Is busses really the plural of bus?

BYD makes chassis that ADL has bodied as a single decker. I see them increasingly frequently in London but have never travelled on or read about them.

Brighton buses has bought a load of E400 electric things which are apparently 'range extended'. My Grandad uses them on his route and told me they really are fully electric. Surprising too as they're used on a very hilly route. Plenty of them on their official fan-site:

http://history.buses.co.uk/history/currentfleet/welcome.htm

The plural of bus is bi.

[Zelandeth]

Been on one of the BYD ADL things once.  Main memory?  That it rattled like a 30 year old PS being driven down a cobbled street flat out and that it looked like the glazing was about to part company with the bodywork at any moment.

[busmansholiday]

11 minutes ago, Zelandeth said:

Been on one of the BYD ADL things once.  Main memory?  That it rattled like a 30 year old PS being driven down a cobbled street flat out and that it looked like the glazing was about to part company with the bodywork at any moment.

Remember being on a couple of year old Ikarus in Romania back in 1991 where the windows were already being held in with wooden wedges.

Good to see progress on the transport mode for the masses of the future.

[busmansholiday]

Good to see that Stagecoach's new single deck livery didn't last long.

Have version 2.

[Noel Tidybeard]

On 1/11/2020 at 9:51 PM, bramz7 said:

What's the oldest REVENUE earning bus you've seen lately? I'm in Bristol and saw W809PAE in use, a Volvo B7(?) with ALX400 bodywork in use with First and their motley fleet of newish and not so new stuff. Listed as a 9.6 litre engine. 

 

nx wm may just have that crown with MOF225 which does go out earning monies

[The Old Bloke Next Door]

NX Walsall Depot yesterday.

[Eyersey1234]

New bus shite, 2 brand new ADL Enviro200 MMC on their delivery run stopped at Woodall Services today

 

Edited to add I'm told they are part of a batch destined for Plymouth. 

[busmansholiday]

Interesting that they have west country registrations rather than the usual S (built at Falkirk) or Y (built at Scarborough).

Go Plymouth, or actually Go Cornwall won a massive 8 year contract not long ago for contracted bus services in Cornwall which involved investment in new buses.

[Eyersey1234]

I was surprised about that too, the trend now is to have the manufacturer register them as apparently its easier. 

[willswitchengage]

On 3/15/2020 at 12:24 PM, Eyersey1234 said:

I was surprised about that too, the trend now is to have the manufacturer register them as apparently its easier. 

There used to be some weird ones there. IIRC all VDL buses were registered by Arriva as they owned the distribution rights in the UK or something - so Arriva was the subtext on their number plates.

Haven't watched this yet but could be interesting viewing for those self-isolating here:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000ggpr

[Eyersey1234]

I've also seen some new E200 MMCs being delivered to London with London registrations lately, no pics as I was driving 

[Noel Tidybeard]

i do believe the new BYD/ADL deckers have started to trickle into NXWM

[somewhatfoolish]

Oz bus shite from a grauniad pictorial about the Freedom Riders.

[MorrisItalSLX]

Does anyone know about this UK based ex Sydney Transport Albion Venturer? Searching the UK plate suggests it arrived their in 2007.

[Eyersey1234]

My chariot on the 15th April. Painted in a special Hull Heritage livery. 

[catsinthewelder]

Lockdown seems to have left this in the carpark near work.

 

[Eyersey1234]

Must admit I like the Darts, always found them nice to drive. The Enviro200s I find a nice steer as well just a shame they are so rattly. 

[gm]

1 hour ago, MorrisItalSLX said:

Does anyone know about this UK based ex Sydney Transport Albion Venturer? Searching the UK plate suggests it arrived their in 2007.

I'm pretty sure that picture was taken in Glasgow at the bus museum on one of their open days, I was there a couple of years back and posted pics earlier on in this thread although, if memory serves, it might belong in Lathalmond bus museum, up near Knockhill in fife

i shall have a look back and see if I can find it

[gm]

sorry, it was in news24

 

 

was definitely in the Scottish bus museum up in Lathalmond back in June 2016 - built in Glasgow, spent it's working life in Australia, came back to Scotland to be restored

 

 

[gm]

Glasgow bus museum open day 2018

 

[gm]

https://www.svbm.online/exhibits

still there by the looks of it, near the top of page 2

 

[Coprolalia]

Howdy bus-shiters.

I do enjoy reading this thread but know naff all about buses. Round my end it's mainly Cardiff Bus, NAT Group and Edwards Coaches. Cardiff Bus  use some proper shite, including some late-90s/ early 00s Dennis Darts and bendy buses.

These chaps are local to my work and they've always seemed a proper old-school local coach company...

Probably nothing exciting there.

Thanks for the interesting reads!

[busmansholiday]

The one on the right, an early Irizar bodied Scania (around 2004 ish) is nice. Bit slow on the take off but I used to like them as a drive.