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Post by planesandtrains on Dec 12, 2017 20:40:27 GMT
Would be nice to have a Stagecoach South including coastliner 700 vehicle finder . How about a Brighton and Hove or Travel West Midlands notable large operators with high vehicle PVRs . food for thought if only . It depends whether an operator makes their data available, like Reading Buses did.
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Post by wirewiper on Jan 24, 2018 9:52:12 GMT
Over the next few days, one of the Reading Buses Wright Streetdecks (901-906) normally used on orange routes 13/14 will be trialled on Green Line 702. Today (24th January) 904 is doing the honours.
Cross-posted from The Reading Buses Thread.
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Post by planesandtrains on Jan 24, 2018 10:31:59 GMT
Over the next few days, one of the Reading Buses Wright Streetdecks (901-906) normally used on orange routes 13/14 will be trialled on Green Line 702. Today (24th January) 904 is doing the honours. Cross-posted from The Reading Buses Thread. I have heard good things about those, saves me another trip to Reading where I got so distracted on the Claret Spritzer Scania I was riding that I forgot to ride one
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Post by wirewiper on Jan 29, 2018 13:22:03 GMT
My own personal obs (rather than findings on RVF) from Friday 26th January.
417 (pink Scania saloon) operating route 10a - this route is normally in the hands of 2x gas-powered Optare Solos 183-186. Seen on the 12.10 Reading Station Thames Valley Science Park.
531, the DAF DB250 / East Lancs Lowlander recently acquired from Panther Travel and still in their livery. Seen in Dee Park operating the 15.15 (SDO) Denefield School-Central Reading.
218 (purple E400 hybrid ex-route 17, but no longer carrying route branding) operating bronze route 11 - I rode it on the 16.45 Coley Park-Central Reading, the first time in some years I have ridden a 'decker from Coley Park although of course they were the norm when route 24 ran through to there. Also a residual schooday 924 journey remained until recently.
218 was covering for bronze Scania saloon 419 - which appeared on Community Link route 28a during the evening peak! Seen operating the 17.25 Reading Station-Kentwood Hill. The Community Link routes are due to be withdrawn at the end of March as Reading Borough Council no longer wishes to support them.
757 (Royal Blue 33 E400 MMC) on emerald route 6 departing Reading Station around 17.50 - at least the vehicle was the correct type.
1201 (jetblack 1 E400) on leopard route 3, operating the 17.55 Reading Station-Arborfield Garrison.
These observations suggest that Reading Buses is not as strict about allocating branded buses to the correct route as it once was. In mitigation though, Reading's traffic congestion has worsened considerably of late; and the long-term closure of Cow Lane in one direction is having repercussions through Central Reading and Caversham and along the Oxford Road, playing havoc with the schedules particularly during the commuter peaks.
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Post by planesandtrains on Feb 8, 2018 10:24:47 GMT
133 on the TVB 2 420 on the 500
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Post by RandomBusesGirl on Feb 21, 2018 18:32:14 GMT
That Monday 62reg Courtney buses Solo SR on the 702 was sadly a login/ghost entry - you should have seen my face when I witnessed the generic MMC 759 eventually turn up I actually got the confirmation the very bus wasn't in service directly from the Reading Buses twitter account - good luck with that if I asked the TfL account for one of their vehicles!
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