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Post by wirewiper on Dec 2, 2018 11:03:29 GMT
LOTS reports today that eight former Abellio E400s* have been acquired from a leasing company. Presumably once these have been refurbished they will allow some of the Scanias that have been temporarily resurrected to go.
* sorry, no IDs
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Post by snowman on Dec 2, 2018 11:11:21 GMT
LOTS reports today that eight former Abellio E400s have been acquired from a leasing company. Presumably once these have been refurbished they will allow some of the Scanias that have been temporarily resurrected to go. I wonder if initially they will run in Abellio spec, unchanged as Abellio returned them (apart from blinds etc) I can’t remember if the takeover of routes was to have buses upgraded to euroVI from the start, or phased in.
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Post by vjaska on Dec 2, 2018 11:43:07 GMT
LOTS reports today that eight former Abellio E400s* have been acquired from a leasing company. Presumably once these have been refurbished they will allow some of the Scanias that have been temporarily resurrected to go. * sorry, no IDsAhh explains why I saw a post elsewhere saying EN41-48 is replacing the lost deckers. The Scanias are indeed only covering and probably will be disposed of once these buses enter arrive & enter service.
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Post by ilovelondonbuses on Dec 2, 2018 12:02:56 GMT
LOTS reports today that eight former Abellio E400s* have been acquired from a leasing company. Presumably once these have been refurbished they will allow some of the Scanias that have been temporarily resurrected to go. * sorry, no IDsThat's interesting news. It has to be the 12 reg E400s from 9545-9558 batch, it is great that eight of them are coming back to London. To answer snowman's question, I think they will have to be refurbished up to Go-Ahead's spec before they enter service.
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Post by MoEnviro on Dec 2, 2018 12:33:43 GMT
LOTS reports today that eight former Abellio E400s* have been acquired from a leasing company. Presumably once these have been refurbished they will allow some of the Scanias that have been temporarily resurrected to go. * sorry, no IDsThat's interesting news. It has to be the 12 reg E400s from 9545-9558 batch, it is great that eight of them are coming back to London. To answer snowman's question, I think they will have to be refurbished up to Go-Ahead's spec before they enter service. It should be quite easy to work out ID’s, given Ensign are reporting 4 have gone to Big Bus London
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Post by ADH45258 on Dec 2, 2018 12:44:58 GMT
Any long-term replacements planned for SEN21 and the MECs?
Perhaps an add on to the 227 order to replace the MECs on the 358?
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Post by busoccultation on Dec 2, 2018 12:56:59 GMT
That's interesting news. It has to be the 12 reg E400s from 9545-9558 batch, it is great that eight of them are coming back to London. To answer snowman 's question, I think they will have to be refurbished up to Go-Ahead's spec before they enter service. It should be quite easy to work out ID’s, given Ensign are reporting 4 have gone to Big Bus London It looks like 9544-49/57/58 are ones that have acquired by Go Ahead as 9550/51/52 are now with Sullivan Buses and 9553-56 have just been acquired by Big Bus London (Assuming that GAL has acquired the 12 reg examples from Abellio).
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Post by lwldriver on Dec 2, 2018 14:07:43 GMT
It should be quite easy to work out ID’s, given Ensign are reporting 4 have gone to Big Bus London It looks like 9544-49/57/58 are ones that have acquired by Go Ahead as 9550/51/52 are now with Sullivan Buses and 9553-56 have just been acquired by Big Bus London (Assuming that GAL has acquired the 12 reg examples from Abellio). I drove a lot of these whilst I was at WL, would be nice to drive them again at MB. Remember 9544 is already Euro6
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Post by vjaska on Dec 2, 2018 15:07:05 GMT
Any long-term replacements planned for SEN21 and the MECs? Perhaps an add on to the 227 order to replace the MECs on the 358? I suspect they will order replacements with the 227 order - the SEN is more harder to predict.
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Post by DT 11 on Dec 2, 2018 15:08:36 GMT
Any long-term replacements planned for SEN21 and the MECs? Perhaps an add on to the 227 order to replace the MECs on the 358? I suspect they will order replacements with the 227 order - the SEN is more harder to predict. Probably replaced with a 10 Reg SE from the 300 wouldn’t surprise me.
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Post by IanF on Dec 2, 2018 15:41:06 GMT
I suspect they will order replacements with the 227 order - the SEN is more harder to predict. Replaced with a 10 Reg SE from the 300 wouldn’t surprise me. Surely too large as was a smaller SEN ensign have dealer stock that may fill the gap.
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Post by busoccultation on Dec 2, 2018 16:02:09 GMT
Replaced with a 10 Reg SE from the 300 wouldn’t surprise me. Surely too large as was a smaller SEN ensign have dealer stock that may fill the gap. I'd reckon that 10.2m SE from the 300 will probably go to Q for the P5 and then release SEN29 or a 9.3m 11 reg SE to MB instead.
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Post by sid on Dec 2, 2018 16:48:20 GMT
Any long-term replacements planned for SEN21 and the MECs? Perhaps an add on to the 227 order to replace the MECs on the 358? I wonder if they might lease some of the Stagecoach Citaro's that are currently on the 227?
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Post by DT 11 on Dec 2, 2018 16:49:51 GMT
Replaced with a 10 Reg SE from the 300 wouldn’t surprise me. Surely too large as was a smaller SEN ensign have dealer stock that may fill the gap. I saw SE121 was on the R11 yesterday which is 10.8m and some of the 13 Reg Enviro 200s have worked the R11 a few years ago.
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Post by londonbusboy on Dec 2, 2018 21:38:14 GMT
Any long-term replacements planned for SEN21 and the MECs? Perhaps an add on to the 227 order to replace the MECs on the 358? I've heard the Omnicity's are staying until at least June. 227 vehicle type still not confirmed.
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