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Post by wirewiper on Aug 26, 2018 9:37:43 GMT
<snip> Local coach operator Grayscroft has a depot in the Town Centre at Victoria Avenue and operates school buses and also market-day services from Mablethorpe, including a Tuesday run to Grimsby and a Tuesday/Friday run to Louth via Theddlethorpe, Saltfleetby & Grimoldby. <snip> I forgot to mention that Grayscroft has some ex-Metrobus London Scania OmniDekkas in its fleet for the school and market-day runs. I also snapped an ALX400-bodied Dennis Trident of Hunt's Coaches in Chapel St Leonard's on the no. 7 Skegness-Alford route. It was formerly Stagecoach London 18232 and still carries its London registration LX04 FXY. Hunt's of Alford ex-Stagecoach 18232 at Chapel St Leonard's on route 7 (Skegness-Alford), August 2018, on Flickr Brylaine of Boston also have a few ex-Stagecoach London Tridents which operate on several of their routes radiating out of Boston. I snapped a couple of those when I was passing through the area, I will post those later.
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Post by wirewiper on Aug 28, 2018 8:41:56 GMT
As promised, here are some photos of Ex-Stagecoach London ALX400-bodied Dennis Tridents now at work with Brylaine Travel of Boston, Lincs. Brylaine Travel of Boston Ex-Stagecoach London 18234 at Sibsey on route B11 (Spilsby-Boston), August 2018, on Flickr Brylaine Travel of Boston ex-Stagecoach London 17428 in Boston on route IC7 (Boston-Skegness), August 2018, on Flickr Brylaine Bus, Lincolnshire Ex-Stagecoach London 17782 at Keal Coates on route B11 (Spilsby-Boston), March 2016, on Flickr Brylaine bus in Boston Ex-Stagecoach London 17755 in Boston on route B13 to Spading, August 2016, on Flickr
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Post by 725DYE on Dec 3, 2018 17:35:06 GMT
Just got back from Gdańsk, Poland. By far the best 4 days of 2018 for me. What a fantastic city and great people. The transport here is excellent. As with many Central European cities the trams are just brilliant and so are the buses. The trains were quite good too - certainly better than Southern and SWR . And it was all so cheap! Have honestly made some wonderful friends for life as well. I don't often say this but it was very sad coming back to England today
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Post by ibus246 on Dec 11, 2018 17:07:14 GMT
I’m currently in Rome. Can rest assured bus usage is far from declining here - most buses i’ve seen are packed to the rafters which appears to be the norm. Their Metro is very simple and basic. If it were any other city I’d imagine the metro would be far more comprehensive but attempting to dig in a place like Rome is impossible for obvious reasons! Oh and there is banditry too - (!) flic.kr/p/PK98u6Lots of lovely Merc citaros too!
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Post by snoggle on Dec 11, 2018 22:59:16 GMT
I’m currently in Rome. Can rest assured bus usage is far from declining here - most buses i’ve seen are packed to the rafters which appears to be the norm. Their Metro is very simple and basic. If it were any other city I’d imagine the metro would be far more comprehensive but attempting to dig in a place like Rome is impossible for obvious reasons! Oh and there is banditry too - (!) flic.kr/p/PK98u6Lots of lovely Merc citaros too! Bus use in Rome is insane on some routes. How buses have burst into flames while you are there? The whole ATAC organisation is under siege. There was some sort of local referendum recently as to how it should be run with the politicians squabbling like alley cats as to who is to blame for the exploding buses and general inefficiency of the operation.
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Post by busaholic on Dec 11, 2018 23:25:03 GMT
I’m currently in Rome. Can rest assured bus usage is far from declining here - most buses i’ve seen are packed to the rafters which appears to be the norm. Their Metro is very simple and basic. If it were any other city I’d imagine the metro would be far more comprehensive but attempting to dig in a place like Rome is impossible for obvious reasons! Oh and there is banditry too - (!) flic.kr/p/PK98u6Lots of lovely Merc citaros too! Bus use in Rome is insane on some routes. How buses have burst into flames while you are there? The whole ATAC organisation is under siege. There was some sort of local referendum recently as to how it should be run with the politicians squabbling like alley cats as to who is to blame for the exploding buses and general inefficiency of the operation. Didn't Rome's second metro line take about thirty years to build, or something like that (I think there were a few hiatuses during that period)? Makes Thameslink/Crossrail and the rest child's play in comparison! My only experience of Rome's public transport came on a school trip, so you can infer how long ago it was, but I did get to travel on a single deck trolleybus for the first time in my life. When I say on it, I don't mean inside it, we were clinging to the outside, and that's how busy the route was. It passed our 'hotel', was numbered route 64 and every trolleybus I saw during the few days we were there was packed to the gunnels. I believe there were some ancient trams down by the station, but don't recollect seeing them.
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Post by snoggle on Dec 12, 2018 0:28:42 GMT
Bus use in Rome is insane on some routes. How buses have burst into flames while you are there? The whole ATAC organisation is under siege. There was some sort of local referendum recently as to how it should be run with the politicians squabbling like alley cats as to who is to blame for the exploding buses and general inefficiency of the operation. Didn't Rome's second metro line take about thirty years to build, or something like that (I think there were a few hiatuses during that period)? Makes Thameslink/Crossrail and the rest child's play in comparison! My only experience of Rome's public transport came on a school trip, so you can infer how long ago it was, but I did get to travel on a single deck trolleybus for the first time in my life. When I say on it, I don't mean inside it, we were clinging to the outside, and that's how busy the route was. It passed our 'hotel', was numbered route 64 and every trolleybus I saw during the few days we were there was packed to the gunnels. I believe there were some ancient trams down by the station, but don't recollect seeing them. The ancient trams, on the inter urban, are still there to some extent. Unfortunately one interurban route has been cut back severely by part of new Metro Line C. You are quite right that Metro construction takes a long time - the rest of Line C is taking forever to creep across the central area. www.urbanrail.net/eu/it/rom/roma.htmOn my one trip to Rome I caught in a horrendous rain storm (no brolley) and ended up on a 64 (run with Citaros) back to my hotel. All I did was drip an enormous puddle on to the bus floor to the great amusement of the locals on the bus.
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Post by galwhv69 on Dec 12, 2018 16:26:21 GMT
Didn't Rome's second metro line take about thirty years to build, or something like that (I think there were a few hiatuses during that period)? Makes Thameslink/Crossrail and the rest child's play in comparison! My only experience of Rome's public transport came on a school trip, so you can infer how long ago it was, but I did get to travel on a single deck trolleybus for the first time in my life. When I say on it, I don't mean inside it, we were clinging to the outside, and that's how busy the route was. It passed our 'hotel', was numbered route 64 and every trolleybus I saw during the few days we were there was packed to the gunnels. I believe there were some ancient trams down by the station, but don't recollect seeing them. The ancient trams, on the inter urban, are still there to some extent. Unfortunately one interurban route has been cut back severely by part of new Metro Line C. You are quite right that Metro construction takes a long time - the rest of Line C is taking forever to creep across the central area. www.urbanrail.net/eu/it/rom/roma.htmOn my one trip to Rome I caught in a horrendous rain storm (no brolley) and ended up on a 64 (run with Citaros) back to my hotel. All I did was drip an enormous puddle on to the bus floor to the great amusement of the locals on the bus. lol 😂😂😂,as the locals were amused,that rarely happens there I guess?
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Post by busaholic on Dec 13, 2018 0:19:03 GMT
Didn't Rome's second metro line take about thirty years to build, or something like that (I think there were a few hiatuses during that period)? Makes Thameslink/Crossrail and the rest child's play in comparison! My only experience of Rome's public transport came on a school trip, so you can infer how long ago it was, but I did get to travel on a single deck trolleybus for the first time in my life. When I say on it, I don't mean inside it, we were clinging to the outside, and that's how busy the route was. It passed our 'hotel', was numbered route 64 and every trolleybus I saw during the few days we were there was packed to the gunnels. I believe there were some ancient trams down by the station, but don't recollect seeing them. The ancient trams, on the inter urban, are still there to some extent. Unfortunately one interurban route has been cut back severely by part of new Metro Line C. You are quite right that Metro construction takes a long time - the rest of Line C is taking forever to creep across the central area. www.urbanrail.net/eu/it/rom/roma.htmOn my one trip to Rome I caught in a horrendous rain storm (no brolley) and ended up on a 64 (run with Citaros) back to my hotel. All I did was drip an enormous puddle on to the bus floor to the great amusement of the locals on the bus. The main amusement on my trip was, inadvertently, caused by me in the 'hotel' when a group of us 15/16 year olds were smoking in a room when a teacher came in and, in an attempt to camoflage my cigarette, I reached up to put it on a chandelier and brought the whole edifice down. Still, for the only time in my whole school life I was briefly considered 'cool'.
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Post by wirewiper on Jun 22, 2019 16:32:21 GMT
Another repeat visit to Lincolnshire has revealed changes to Interconnect route 59. Since 28th April it no longer operates between Mablethorpe and Louth, this part of the route has been replaced by extending Interconnect route 51 (Grimsby-Louth) to Mablethorpe. In Mablethorpe both the 51 and 59 now operate to the Sea Life centre at the north end of the town. Route 59 has also gained a small diversion in Chapel St Leonard's and now double-runs to the recently-opened North Sea Observatory (free entry - well worth a visit if you are in the area). Hunt's of Alford operates ex-CT Plus DE5 and DE6, East Lancs Esteem-bodied Dennis Darts that were new for the W13 in 2007 and withdrawn from London service ten years later. DE5 is still in its London condition and seems to be the regular performer on route 96 between Mablethorpe, Alford and Spilsby. The 96 is operated under contract to Lincolnshire County Council and Hunt's took over from Brylaine of Boston last year in 2017. DE6 is in allover white and sometimes operates Hunt's main route, the 7 between Alford and Skegness. Hunt's of Alford Ex-CT Plus DE5 on route 96 at Sutton-on-Sea, June 2019 Londoner in Lincolnshire Ex-CT Plus DE6 on route 7 at Winthorpe, Skegness, August 2017
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Post by snowman on Jul 28, 2019 15:23:24 GMT
On holiday in Madeira, where many roads have steep hills (1 in 5 is common in places, some are steeper) I saw one bus and checked the road against a pole, it was 1 in 5 so they are steep for bus routes Plenty of buses, especially in Funchal (island has population of about 255,000 quite an old selection of buses, many over 20 years old, most seem to be high floor, 3 large steps minimum Have discovered they intend to buy 129 electric buses by 2022 (and from next year when a new hydroelectric scheme opens 50% of electricity on the island will be renewables) Some pictures of examples www.flickr.com/groups/3206802@N21/pool/page1/
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Post by vjaska on Jul 28, 2019 16:40:49 GMT
On holiday in Madeira, where many roads have steep hills (1 in 5 is common in places, some are steeper) I saw one bus and checked the road against a pole, it was 1 in 5 so they are steep for bus routes Plenty of buses, especially in Funchal (island has population of about 255,000 quite an old selection of buses, many over 20 years old, most seem to be high floor, 3 large steps minimum Have discovered they intend to buy 129 electric buses by 2022 (and from next year when a new hydroelectric scheme opens 50% of electricity on the island will be renewables) Some pictures of examples www.flickr.com/groups/3206802@N21/pool/page1/Is it me or do the Volvos look similar to Optare Vectas? Thanks for sharing, might have to inform my Madeirian work colleague about this so not sure she'll be interested too much
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Post by M1199 on Jul 28, 2019 20:11:43 GMT
On holiday in Madeira, where many roads have steep hills (1 in 5 is common in places, some are steeper) I saw one bus and checked the road against a pole, it was 1 in 5 so they are steep for bus routes Plenty of buses, especially in Funchal (island has population of about 255,000 quite an old selection of buses, many over 20 years old, most seem to be high floor, 3 large steps minimum Have discovered they intend to buy 129 electric buses by 2022 (and from next year when a new hydroelectric scheme opens 50% of electricity on the island will be renewables) Some pictures of examples www.flickr.com/groups/3206802@N21/pool/page1/When I was in Madeira last year, was shocked to find so many standard floor vehicles in service, made a nice change though, riding a rickity 20yr old Volvo! In fact I thought they performed a lot better than their newer Low Floor cousins! 1 B10M I rode, 311 I think, had a lovely sounding ZF box on it, very musical as it went through the gears, reminded me a lot of how the LLW’s sounded!
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Post by galwhv69 on Aug 23, 2020 18:30:35 GMT
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