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Post by lazy_eye_metaphor on Dec 23, 2021 15:11:13 GMT
14164 enters service on the 180
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Post by lazy_eye_metaphor on Dec 24, 2021 10:20:59 GMT
14164 enters service on the 180 And now, only 14166 remains yet to enter service
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Post by VPL630 on Dec 24, 2021 19:48:57 GMT
Stagecoach have a few buses parked in our yard tonight
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Post by snowman on Dec 24, 2021 21:47:18 GMT
Stagecoach put few more of its new electric buses in service today
Now just one remaining 14166 to enter service
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Post by dashing0ne on Dec 25, 2021 8:21:32 GMT
Stagecoach put few more of its new electric buses in service today Now just one remaining 14166 to enter service Assuming all TT VH's back at LI ready for the 733 in January.
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Post by 10121ddo on Dec 25, 2021 23:45:47 GMT
Small Christmas request for the more knowledgable on the forum. Have been a little out of the loop with any bus news since summer. Been reading about routes rumoured to be / confirmed to be taking PVR hits recently. Anything coming the 275’s way? Or will it remain at a max of 13 PVR during Schooldays?
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Post by busoccultation on Dec 26, 2021 1:06:30 GMT
Small Christmas request for the more knowledgable on the forum. Have been a little out of the loop with any bus news since summer. Been reading about routes rumoured to be / confirmed to be taking PVR hits recently. Anything coming the 275’s way? Or will it remain at a max of 13 PVR during Schooldays? Pretty much about 85% to 90% of the recent cuts since the Summer so far have been around the Zone 1/2 parts of London, so the 275 should hopefully be 'safe' from any reductions and keep it's PVR of 13 on a 12 mins service on Mon-Sat.
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Post by mkay315 on Dec 29, 2021 11:51:41 GMT
Mr Views from the upper deck has come up with another South London video (DJ Khaled's voice ANOTHER ONE!!!! hahaha) Here's the 96 from Bluewater to Woolwich in 1999 using the Volvo Olympian. Enjoy folks www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNzGb55DXlE
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Post by bus12451 on Dec 29, 2021 15:44:27 GMT
Mr Views from the upper deck has come up with another South London video (DJ Khaled's voice ANOTHER ONE!!!! hahaha) Here's the 96 from Bluewater to Woolwich in 1999 using the Volvo Olympian. Enjoy folks www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNzGb55DXlEThank you for sharing. I use the 96 all the time for work so it was interesting to see what things looked like along the route back then compared to now. Woolwich and Bexleyheath town centres have changed alot over the past 20 years, Plumstead High Street looks mostly the same. The bits of Dartford shown in the video looks similar to now other than Market Street which was partly pedestrianised.
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Post by ThinLizzy on Dec 29, 2021 15:48:44 GMT
Mr Views from the upper deck has come up with another South London video (DJ Khaled's voice ANOTHER ONE!!!! hahaha) Here's the 96 from Bluewater to Woolwich in 1999 using the Volvo Olympian. Enjoy folks www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNzGb55DXlE must give this a watch, the 96 with the Volvo Olympians was always a great trip out
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Post by mkay315 on Dec 29, 2021 18:36:46 GMT
Mr Views from the upper deck has come up with another South London video (DJ Khaled's voice ANOTHER ONE!!!! hahaha) Here's the 96 from Bluewater to Woolwich in 1999 using the Volvo Olympian. Enjoy folks www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNzGb55DXlEThank you for sharing. I use the 96 all the time for work so it was interesting to see what things looked like along the route back then compared to now. Woolwich and Bexleyheath town centres have changed alot over the past 20 years, Plumstead High Street looks mostly the same. The bits of Dartford shown in the video looks similar to now other than Market Street which was partly pedestrianised. Funny enough I remembered when T and BW Olympians were sent to PD in 1999 as those two garages were starting their low floor revolution on their double deckers.
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Post by mkay315 on Dec 29, 2021 18:37:19 GMT
Mr Views from the upper deck has come up with another South London video (DJ Khaled's voice ANOTHER ONE!!!! hahaha) Here's the 96 from Bluewater to Woolwich in 1999 using the Volvo Olympian. Enjoy folks www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNzGb55DXlE must give this a watch, the 96 with the Volvo Olympians was always a great trip out You'll enjoy it, especially the non stop section of the route.
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Post by lazy_eye_metaphor on Dec 31, 2021 11:08:27 GMT
14166 has entered service on route 180 today, so completing the introduction of the new batch of electrics at PD.
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Post by mkay315 on Jan 6, 2022 16:21:48 GMT
I know the 58 is currently ran by tower transit but one thing that has always eluded me was how come U (when it was operational) never actually operated the route but it was ran by T?
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Post by busoccultation on Jan 6, 2022 16:39:31 GMT
I know the 58 is currently ran by tower transit but one thing that has always eluded me was how come U (when it was operational) never actually operated the route but it was ran by T? The same even can be said with the first 5 years of Stagecoach running the 179 from T only really done to avoid any route shuffles and it sort of a pain for driver changeovers from Ilford/Gants Hill to Leyton than having the route from BK in the first place by moving the 101 to WH at the time to make space, after few years of them running the 179 and BK losing the 5, Stagecoach have realised that it would be better for the 179 to run from BK on its new contract in 2018.
The 179 from T was much more of a strange one as it didn't serve either Leyton or Walthamstow unlike the 58 which served both of those places.
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