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Post by SILENCED on May 12, 2018 18:52:57 GMT
You would've thought that with the arrival of DW301-325 that TC would've removed 133/N133 from their blinds, but they haven't. But why waste money if they had spare blinds to use in these buses? So true, they had the sets taken out of DW248/250-8/275/6 and some of the BN/N floaters that spent some time there before moving to GY/DX/WN ... so imagine most of the DW301-25 batch will have reused blinds.
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Post by M1199 on May 12, 2018 18:55:07 GMT
Some of the 10reg DE’s and a MMC DEL at UX have U11 on their blindsets.
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Post by galwhv69 on May 12, 2018 19:13:15 GMT
Some of the 10reg DE’s and a MMC DEL at UX have U11 on their blindsets. There was something that it is a ferry bus private route but not sure how true it is
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Post by vjaska on May 12, 2018 20:29:36 GMT
Note down observations of routes that shouldn't be on a blindset but are (eg.424 and 485 on the 315 Sen's) One of the omnicities at C still has 118 I believe You do realise that blinds for routes at other garages are put on a blind set to aid flexibility - it’s not up to us to decide what shouldn’t be on a blind set apart from the obvious situation where older routes are on there though you wouldn’t change a blind set unless it was absolutely necessary.
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Post by galwhv69 on May 12, 2018 20:48:06 GMT
Note down observations of routes that shouldn't be on a blindset but are (eg.424 and 485 on the 315 Sen's) One of the omnicities at C still has 118 I believe You do realise that blinds for routes at other garages are put on a blind set to aid flexibility - it’s not up to us to decide what shouldn’t be on a blind set apart from the obvious situation where older routes are on there though you wouldn’t change a blind set unless it was absolutely necessary. Fair point,that was a rubbish example I gave
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Post by 6HP502C on May 12, 2018 21:27:36 GMT
Funny this topic should come up! Was just in Lewisham watching Q's EH81 scrolling on the 185 and saw a Romford Market destination - just which routes is it blinded for? Looking at LVF I'm surprised at how many garages it has operated out of since the second half of 2017!
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Post by 6HP502C on May 12, 2018 21:31:03 GMT
Some of the 10reg DE’s and a MMC DEL at UX have U11 on their blindsets. There was something that it is a ferry bus private route but not sure how true it is No - it was a route proposed to serve the Uxbridge Industrial Estate which never saw the light of day. Certainly no ferry buses at UX when I drove out of there, a lot of the drivers had cars or lived within walking distance of the garage.
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Post by snoggle on May 12, 2018 21:31:52 GMT
Funny this topic should come up! Was just in Lewisham watching Q's EH81 scrolling on the 185 and saw a Romford Market destination - just which routes is it blinded for? Wonder if it is a night bus cover bus and they've stuck blinds for the N15 on it? I was slightly bemused to see a range of Barking destinations on a NB4L on the 76 as it went out of service at T Hale recently but, of course, the vehicles were swapped between garages so there is a clear reason in this instance.
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2018 21:35:27 GMT
Funny this topic should come up! Was just in Lewisham watching Q's EH81 scrolling on the 185 and saw a Romford Market destination - just which routes is it blinded for? Looking at LVF I'm surprised at how many garages it has operated out of since the second half of 2017! I think it was posted here that the N15 is on the newer blinds at Q.
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Post by ThinLizzy on May 12, 2018 21:35:39 GMT
RM has 175 on their Scania/E400s. NS has the 372 on the E400 MMCs. The Optare Versas for BK have the 145 on it. Also I remember the E200s having the 387 too, but I’m pretty sure they’re no longer on it. The E200MMCs (and probably the E200s with new WOBs in) have 296, 323 and 549 on the blinds as well.
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Post by 6HP502C on May 12, 2018 21:36:42 GMT
Funny this topic should come up! Was just in Lewisham watching Q's EH81 scrolling on the 185 and saw a Romford Market destination - just which routes is it blinded for? Wonder if it is a night bus cover bus and they've stuck blinds for the N15 on it? I was slightly bemused to see a range of Barking destinations on a NB4L on the 76 as it went out of service at T Hale recently but, of course, the vehicles were swapped between garages so there is a clear reason in this instance. I thought that might have been it.
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Post by planesandtrains on May 12, 2018 21:45:45 GMT
Epsom blind sets have everything on them, regardless of the size of bus. Funnily enough carried over from the old management to the new, as the 67 plate SDE's have this feature as well.
Fulwell also have everything on the blinds (Bar 33 on all of the deckers) , plus a few ones from other routes that run close but from other garages by for flexibility (Eg when TV operate southern section of 281 during disruption).
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Post by ThinLizzy on May 12, 2018 21:47:09 GMT
At Limebourne, even before their the takeover of Travel London the Caetano-bodied Dart SLFs had full route/destination blinds for the C1 and 211
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Post by redexpress on May 12, 2018 22:29:57 GMT
Some Sullivan buses have (or used to have) one or two central London routes on their blinds for filming purposes.
Operators sometimes add routes that they are bidding for, to save the expense of adding inserts or new blinds if they win the route. Looks a bit odd when they don't win the route though. Arriva had 626 on some blinds at one point - obviously this was before Sullivan started hoovering up all the north London school routes. Metroline had 168 on the blinds at HT way back in 2002; in the event it took them 13 years to win the route, by which time those blinds were long gone, and the route started off at W anyway!
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Post by rj131 on May 12, 2018 23:21:13 GMT
RM has 175 on their Scania/E400s. NS has the 372 on the E400 MMCs. The Optare Versas for BK have the 145 on it. Also I remember the E200s having the 387 too, but I’m pretty sure they’re no longer on it. Yes the 387 has been removed from the Enviro200s, and most Enviro400 MMCs at BK for that matter. The Enviro200s at BK have got 323 on the sets, and the 62 and 145 have been removed along with the 387 so I imagine we won't be seeing any single deck on double decker route workings in the near future. The Enviro400 MMCs at BK have the 179, which will come in handy come later this year and they also have the 277 (and I think 287) on them. I know the old set on the Enviro400 MMCs had the 275 on them but I'm not sure if that's still the case with the newer set that most of them carry. Something quite unusual is that the Enviro400s at WH seem to have the 686 on them for some reason, although I'm not too sure if that's the case with the ones that have been reblinded for the 474. Stagecoach definitely seem to be the biggest culprit in terms of blinding vehicles for extra routes not running at that garage, I presume it just makes transfers easier should the need arise. GAL do it somewhat as well, but only really where two garages are run quite closely alongside one another, ie RR and SI. First back in the day did it all the time, the WVNs at NP have all sorts of weird and wonderful routes on them. A typical 357/476 Ex-First dayglo blindset has 58, 67, 179, 191, 231, 259, 341, 357, 476, school routes D6 and D7 (made it easy when WVNs went to SI to cover for the D7’s refurbs). I wonder what the old 18 VWs had on them ...
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