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Post by vjaska on Oct 13, 2019 12:30:23 GMT
This vehicle is now with Lynx in Norfolk (Reading Buses has sold all seven of its ex-London DWs). The registration X100 RDG has been transferred to Scania OmniDekka 801. Select registration by Julian Walker, on Flickr Meanwhile DW55 has now been re-registered UWW3X, believe this used to belong to a Leyland Titan? Nearly, it used to belong to a former Cambus & Stagecoach Leyland Olympian
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Post by wirewiper on Oct 13, 2019 13:28:51 GMT
Meanwhile DW55 has now been re-registered UWW3X, believe this used to belong to a Leyland Titan? Nearly, it used to belong to a former Cambus & Stagecoach Leyland Olympian ... which was new originally to West Yorkshire PTE (Passenger Transport Executive) in 1982. Following bus deregulation and privatisation of the former PTEs in the later 1980s, Yorkshire Rider (as WYPTE had become) sold off many of its Olympians as due to their young age they had a relatively high value on the second-hand market.
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Post by wirewiper on Oct 29, 2019 9:27:02 GMT
Slough & Windsor service changes from Sunday 3rd November: 2 (Dedworth-Windsor-Slough): New timetable with regular hourly daytime service. Co-ordinated with route 10 to provide a regular 30-minute frequency between Dedworth and Windsor. 4 (Slough-Maidenhead): daily evening journeys operated by Thames Valley Buses under contract to Slough Borough Council revert to First Berkshire. 5 (Slough-Cippenham): minor changes to early morning journeys to improve reliability. New larger buses to increase capacity due to growing demand (three E200 MMCs which are already in service). 6 (Slough-Knolton Way): the Sunday service operated by Thames Valley Buses under contract to Slough Borough Council reverts to First Berkshire. 10/10A/10S (Dedworth-Windsor-Datchet-Heathrow Terminal 5): new timetable, with regular hourly daytime service developed in partnership with Heathrow Airport. Will incorporate route 11. 11/11S (Slough-Datchet-Heathrow Terminal 5): incorporated into route 10/10A. The schoolday 11S journeys are renumbered 10S. 15 (Slough-Eton Wick-Maidenhead): minor early morning timetable changes to improve reliability. Fares: revised fares will be introduced, and fares on Thames Valley routes, Green Line 702/703 and Courtney Buses 16/16A (Maidenhead-Dedworth-Windsor) will be coordinated over common sections. Boost reduced-rate fares will be available to all passengers aged 5-18 inclusive. Timetables will appear on both the Reading Buses and the Courtney Buses websites soon. As well as the Slough and Windsor changes listed above, from Sunday 3rd November there will be timetable changes (mostly minor) on Courtney Buses routes 16/16A, 53, 128, 156, 162/162A and 171/172; and on Reading Buses "little oranges" routes 19B and 19C. To clarify the route 10/10A and 11/11S changes: from 3rd November route 10 is simplified, with all journeys operating between Dedworth and Heathrow Terminal 5 as route 10 via Wraysbury. Garage journeys will no longer operate in service between Bracknell and Dedworth, and there will no longer be a service via Horton Village (numbered 10A). Occasional journeys will operate to and from Slough instead of Windsor & Dedworth; these will be numbered 10A (they would previously have been numbered 11) with the journeys via Slough Grammar School and Langley renumbered from 11S to 10S - interestingly the 10S journeys appear to operate on Monday-Friday non-schooldays as well.
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Post by richard on Oct 29, 2019 14:11:51 GMT
There's a video of ex DW55 (LJ04LEU), now X100RDG, being thrashed along the M4 on the Brentford flyover on the 702. Engine sounds awful, like a knackered washing machine on its final spin cycle youtu.be/0Lt8PaTuowIThis vehicle is now with Lynx in Norfolk (Reading Buses has sold all seven of its ex-London DWs). The registration X100 RDG has been transferred to Scania OmniDekka 801. Select registration by Julian Walker, on Flickr Of the 5 DWs they had what were they?
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Post by wirewiper on Nov 1, 2019 16:29:13 GMT
A very interesting development: Reading Buses has been working with Slough Borough Council and Heathrow Airport to develop a new route, linking Terminal 5 with Colnbrook Village, Iver, Shreding Green and Langley. The route will be numbered 459, which reintroduces an old London Country route number previously associated with the Iver area. A full seven-days-a-week will commence from Monday 3rd February, with journeys from 03.00 until after midnight. However from Monday 4th November until Friday 20th December Reading Buses will be running a limited free preview service over the route between 09.30 and 14.30 on Mondays-Fridays, using a fully-electric vehicle. A second period of preview service will operate on Mondays-Fridays from Thursday 2nd to Friday 31st January, using a gas-powered single decker. For a route map and preview timetable, click on the link: www.reading-buses.co.uk/new-bus-link-heathrow-airport
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Post by wirewiper on Dec 8, 2019 18:31:40 GMT
Reading Buses has announced its services over the Christmas and New Year period, timetables to appear shortly.
Christmas Eve - normal Monday-Friday service until early evening, except on route 42 2hich will operate to the Saturday timetable. Last buses on most routes will be around 19.00-20.00, but routes 5, 6, 17, 21 and 26 will have a limited late evening service until around 23.00.
Christmas Day - no services.
Boxing Day - Special service on routes which normally operate on a Sunday. Most services will start around 09.00 and finish around 18.00. Thames Valley Buses routes 2 and 10 will operate to the Sunday timetable and special timetables will operate on Courtney Buses routes 108, 150, 156, 171, 172 and 194 in Bracknell, some of these are supported financially by Bracknell Forest Council.
Friday 27th December - Saturday service, except Greenwave services will operate to the Monday-Friday timetable.
Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th December - normal Saturday and Sunday service.
Monday 30th December - Saturday service, except Greenwave services will operate to the Monday-Friday timetable. The night service on routes 17 and 21 will operate hourly.
New Year's Eve - Saturday service, except Greenwave services will operate to the Monday-Friday timetable. Greenwave services will finish early at around 20.00, but a full Saturday evening service will operate on other routes including 24-hour service on routes 5, 6, 17, 21 and 26 after midnight.
New Year's Day - Sunday service on routes which have a Sunday timetable.
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Reading Buses has announced changes to its lion 4/X4 and tiger 7 routes and timetables from Monday 6th January.
Route 4 will be amended in Bracknell to operate via South Hill Road between Great Hollands Shopping Centre and Bracknell Town Centre, and will no longer operate through the Crown Hill and Birch Wood areas - these will still be linked to Bracknell Town Centre by Courtney Buses routes 171/172. A few journeys will operate via the Waitrose Distribution Centre in Doncastle Road for shift change times. The X4 route is unchanged.
Due to low usage the timetable for route 7 is being cut quite dramatically; there will now be just five return journeys (four on Saturdays) between Reading and Fleet, with three additional journeys between Reading and Spencers Wood only. The evening and Sunday journeys between Reading and Riseley that are operated under contract to Wokingham Borough Council will continue to operate, at slightly revised times. Apart from these journeys, the timetable looks to have been designed so that the service can be operated by a single vehicle. Reading Buses states that there will be changes to other services in February which will give alternatives for the Spencers Wood and Three Mile Cross area. Also from 6th January, the current restriction on picking up passengers in the Reading area on inbound journeys will be lifted.
From the same date school route 84 (Chiltern Edge) will have a revised timetable and will be rerouted in Caversham, school route 92 (Bohunt) will gain an extra afternoon journey on Mondays-Thursdays and there will be a few minor timetable changes to Newbury & District routes 1A/1C.
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Post by wirewiper on Jan 4, 2020 18:38:27 GMT
Reading Buses has issued preliminary details of changes to "the leopard" group of routes along Shinfield Road, to be effective from Monday 3rd February.
Route 3b (Bracknell) is to be withdrawn. The service was introduced in September 2017 to coincide with the opening of the new Lexicon Centre in Bracknell and in anticipation of housing developments along the route, but these have not materialised to the extent envisaged and loadings are poor. Passengers wanting to travel between Shinfield/Arborfield and Bracknell can still use the hourly leopard 3 to Wokingham and change there to the lion 4 and X4. The resources saved will be used to increase capacity at the busier Reading end of the route.
Route 3 will be adjusted to run every 20 minutes between Reading and Arborfield Green, with one journey an hour continuing to/from Wokingham as at present. The journeys terminating/starting at Arborfield Green will be extended to serve new housing in Sheerlands Road and Nine Mile Ride Extension.
Route 9 will become a leopard route, and will be extended from Whitley to Three Mile Cross, Spencers Wood, Shinfield and Thames Valley Science Park.
Route 10 will be renumbered 8. It will still operate to Spencers Wood via Thames Valley Science Park and Shinfield, but will be linked to route 9 creating links across Spencers Wood in both directions and to the new housing in the Croft Gardens area.
Maps and timetables for the revised leopard routes will be issued later in January.
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Post by wirewiper on Jan 22, 2020 14:07:07 GMT
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Post by vjaska on Jan 22, 2020 14:39:00 GMT
Just to clarify, is the current 459 arrangement in place until 31st January using a gas powered vehicle?
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Post by wirewiper on Jan 22, 2020 15:37:38 GMT
Just to clarify, is the current 459 arrangement in place until 31st January using a gas powered vehicle? It is; until 31st January there is a limited service between 09.30 and 14.30 on Mondays-Fridays and usually operated by a gas bus.
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Post by vjaska on Jan 22, 2020 15:41:53 GMT
Just to clarify, is the current 459 arrangement in place until 31st January using a gas powered vehicle? It is; until 31st January there is a limited service between 09.30 and 14.30 on Mondays-Fridays and usually operated by a gas bus. Thanks, appreciate the confirmation.
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Post by wirewiper on Feb 3, 2020 11:44:24 GMT
The Reading Buses "Charity of the Year" for 2020 is Sport In Mind, a national organisation that supports mental health and well-being through sporting activity.
Interestingly the news article reveals that the all-over advertising wrap for the charity has this year been applied to an ADL Enviro400, rather than Scania OmniCity 1114 which has carried the Charity of the Year wrap for several years. Could this be a sign that the remaining six OmniCitys are leaving the Reading Buses fleet this year?
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Post by snowman on Feb 11, 2020 13:11:02 GMT
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Reading buses new YY69TNE and YY69TNF looks like they have sunroofs, USB, tables, wifi, some rear facing seats etc
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Post by SILENCED on Feb 11, 2020 14:02:58 GMT
/photo/1 Reading buses new YY69TNE and YY69TNF looks like they have sunroofs, USB, tables, wifi, some rear facing seats etc Compare that to a London MMC ... #London3rdRateBuses! Electric buses are not so great if they are as basic as a London bus inside. Fact is London buses are some of the most basically spec'ed vehicles coming of the UK production lines.
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Feb 11, 2020 14:18:22 GMT
/photo/1 Reading buses new YY69TNE and YY69TNF looks like they have sunroofs, USB, tables, wifi, some rear facing seats etc Compare that to a London MMC ... #London3rdRateBuses! Electric buses are not so great if they are as basic as a London bus inside. Fact is London buses are some of the most basically spec'ed vehicles coming of the UK production lines. Have something like that in London and it will be completely ruined in two weeks. A fight will probably soon break out over who gets to use the air charge docks as well. That said you probably don't need all this luxury in London for most routes, many people don't ride really long distances like they do outside of London. The issue in London is the service is too slow and there's too much traffic which puts people off. London buses are functional and it makes sense to attract people back with a usable service rather than wasting it on unnecessary bells and whistles.
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