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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Aug 25, 2018 21:32:33 GMT
With various plot twists concerning Metroline VMHs, I doubt any will reach HT for route 43, enabling it to remain VPL-operated until electric buses arrive. They will likely be Metrolines only remaining presidents, as I can't see the VP6xx from the H12 staying around, and the 5 VPs at AC probably won't last much longer I think these 5 VPs at AC will be replaced by VWHs returning from HT to AC when route 4 is withdrawn from Waterloo.
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Post by VWH1414 on Aug 25, 2018 21:58:41 GMT
They will likely be Metrolines only remaining presidents, as I can't see the VP6xx from the H12 staying around, and the 5 VPs at AC probably won't last much longer I think these 5 VPs at AC will be replaced by VWHs returning from HT to AC when route 4 is withdrawn from Waterloo. No VWHs are returning from HT, VWH2336/2337/2384/2413 are currently on loan to PA, and these should be withdrawn when these return, VWH2430 was also there but has since come back, unusually nothing has been withdrawn since its return, not that I'm complaining
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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Aug 25, 2018 22:05:01 GMT
I think these 5 VPs at AC will be replaced by VWHs returning from HT to AC when route 4 is withdrawn from Waterloo. No VWHs are returning from HT, VWH2336/2337/2384/2413 are currently on loan to PA, and these should be withdrawn when these return, VWH2430 was also there but has since come back, unusually nothing has been withdrawn since its return, not that I'm complaining I similarly much prefer VP/VPL to frogface VWHs. Although I mainly ride bus changes, I am pleased to have done a VP on route 17 (to celebrate their return to HT) in 2016 and a VPL last year on route 4 for convenience - and to avoid the indignity of a City bus trip with no Metroline buses.
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Post by YY13VKP on Aug 30, 2018 13:24:46 GMT
Metrobus 566 has been withdrawn. It hasn't been out since July and I don't expect it to be out tomorrow either
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Post by TBEJoseph on Aug 31, 2018 12:20:17 GMT
Any idea if the 2 DPSs have been withdrawn at SO yet?
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Post by vjaska on Aug 31, 2018 12:42:58 GMT
Any idea if the 2 DPSs have been withdrawn at SO yet? One was out yesterday and the other on the 28th - I'd imagine both would continue or at least one given the H9/H10 is short of one DE as far as I know.
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Post by TBEJoseph on Aug 31, 2018 12:48:35 GMT
Any idea if the 2 DPSs have been withdrawn at SO yet? One was out yesterday and the other on the 28th - I'd imagine both would continue or at least one given the H9/H10 is short of one DE as far as I know. Though one DE has transferred from BT today
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Post by VWH1414 on Sept 1, 2018 13:06:40 GMT
DPS30723-30727 all withdrawn according to lvf
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Post by snowman on Sept 1, 2018 15:53:28 GMT
DPS30723-30727 all withdrawn according to lvf Yes, others are expected to follow , once BEs enter service and buses get cascaded I think I-bus equipment has now been transferred to some of the new buses, so LVF automatically withdraws them if not already done.
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Post by hwfan on Sept 1, 2018 18:45:21 GMT
Don't know if this has been asked before, but what happened to the stagecoach 251** series of tempo hybrid's? I know that they have been withdrawn for many years now, but what was their fate?
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Post by VWH1414 on Sept 1, 2018 18:54:11 GMT
Don't know if this has been asked before, but what happened to the stagecoach 251** series of tempo hybrid's? I know that they have been withdrawn for many years now, but what was their fate? They were sold to Ensigns, although it doesn't seem as if they were sold as I cannot find any pictures of them after the ones of them in Ensigns yard, I would assume they are gone from there now although I have no idea where to.
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Post by busoccultation on Sept 1, 2018 19:06:45 GMT
Don't know if this has been asked before, but what happened to the stagecoach 251** series of tempo hybrid's? I know that they have been withdrawn for many years now, but what was their fate? They were sold to Ensigns, although it doesn't seem as if they were sold as I cannot find any pictures of them after the ones of them in Ensigns yard, I would assume they are gone from there now although I have no idea where to. I don't think any of those Tempos been sold as the entire batch have all been given SORN according to the DVLA.
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Post by snoggle on Sept 1, 2018 19:09:24 GMT
Don't know if this has been asked before, but what happened to the stagecoach 251** series of tempo hybrid's? I know that they have been withdrawn for many years now, but what was their fate? They were sold to Ensigns, although it doesn't seem as if they were sold as I cannot find any pictures of them after the ones of them in Ensigns yard, I would assume they are gone from there now although I have no idea where to. Didn't a couple of them end up with an operator in Richmond / Ripon in North Yorkshire or am I getting confused with the Metroline ones? I think that operator has ceased operation though.
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Post by VWH1414 on Sept 1, 2018 20:10:08 GMT
They were sold to Ensigns, although it doesn't seem as if they were sold as I cannot find any pictures of them after the ones of them in Ensigns yard, I would assume they are gone from there now although I have no idea where to. Didn't a couple of them end up with an operator in Richmond / Ripon in North Yorkshire or am I getting confused with the Metroline ones? I think that operator has ceased operation though. They were 2 ex Metroline ones OTH971 & 973 which went to Shauns Minibuses Ripon which ceased last year after the owner sadly passed away I believe. OTH974/975 also ended up somewhere in York with new registrations (OTH974 became OO8617 and OTH975 became OO8226) for a college I believe also, no idea where OTH972 went though.
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Post by VWH1414 on Sept 4, 2018 22:21:05 GMT
E45-48 at Sullivan buses have entered service, so I can't see TPL926/927 returning to service this school term - This means that no London operators now own Trident Presidents
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