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[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 15/03/2020 at 12:24, Eyersey1234 said:

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

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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]

  On 20/04/2020 at 12:42, MorrisItalSLX said:

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

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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.

[Zelandeth]

Whenever I see Setra coaches I'm reminded of one which visited us around 2003-5.  Was pretty old then, on an S or T plate we I recall.

I remember noting A: that it was styled unlike anything we tended to see here (think there was one Bova Futura we used to see occasionally and a couple of Neoplans - which always looked like they were from space), but it was mostly Plaxton Supremes, Paramount and the occasional Premiere with a few random Van Hool Alizees that we used to see regularly.  The second thing I very clearly remember was the truly glorious noise that it made when the party was back on board and they pulled off.  Reckon it must have been a big old turboed V8, guessing Mercedes sourced?  Only bus I've heard make a similar noise were the two ancient huge double deck coaches that Dougie Bain used to run...which also had knackered exhaust systems for extra bonus points...

[jon.k]

I used to live near the depot and go on Gwyn Jones coaches a bit. The coach I used to find interesting (this was about 15 years ago) was this one 

 

photography.

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[jon.k]

  On 07/12/2019 at 22:35, RoadworkUK said:

And possibly a Cummins LTA10-R to turn it into a RoadPacer

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A good article in Buses mag this month:

 

 

[martc]

^^^^ That has to be the April edition (published 1/4/2020). Please say that was the April edition.

[Eyersey1234]

  On 21/04/2020 at 09:16, martc said:

^^^^ That has to be the April edition (published 1/4/2020). Please say that was the April edition.

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Yes it was the April edition, Buses mag do an April fool every year. 

[martc]

  On 21/04/2020 at 09:47, Eyersey1234 said:

Yes it was the April edition, Buses mag do an April fool every year. 

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And that was this years? (fingers crossed).

[Eyersey1234]

Yes that was this years 

[martc]

That was close.

[jon.k]

It got me hook, line and sinker I must admit. I really wanted it to be true!

[Zelandeth]

  On 21/04/2020 at 18:03, jon.k said:

It got me hook, line and sinker I must admit. I really wanted it to be true!

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You and me both.

One of the reasons I despise April fool's jokes.  99% of the ones formatted like that I'll fully believe until someone points it out.  It's just how my brain works!

[jon.k]

It was when I googled it and found no mention of it online that I went back and saw the significance of the last paragraph. Then when I had recovered from my own foolishness I posted it up to catch other people out but it seems most people are too quick - sorry Zelandeth.

[Zelandeth]

  On 21/04/2020 at 19:18, jon.k said:

It was when I googled it and found no mention of it online that I went back and saw the significance of the last paragraph. Then when I had recovered from my own foolishness I posted it up to catch other people out but it seems most people are too quick - sorry Zelandeth.

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Don't worry about it.  It took me an entire afternoon in the office to realise that there was a similar motive behind an article in Route One a few years ago!