va59
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Post by va59 on Oct 7, 2024 14:32:22 GMT
15 uninterrupted BZL's on the 58 today.
Whoppers.
Enjoy East London, enjoy. 👍
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Post by exbox on Oct 7, 2024 16:48:45 GMT
15 uniterrupted BZL's on the 58 today. Whoppers. Enjoy East London, enjoy. 👍 ..ending what must surely be the most protracted route conversion ever. It's taken almost four months to commission about 20 buses. Normally four weeks would be considered quite a lengthy period to prepare a fleet of that size for service. Does anyone know the reason? |
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Oct 7, 2024 16:52:47 GMT
15 uniterrupted BZL's on the 58 today. Whoppers. Enjoy East London, enjoy. 👍 ..ending what must surely be the most protracted route conversion ever. It's taken almost four months to commission about 20 buses. Normally four weeks would be considered quite a lengthy period to prepare a fleet of that size for service. Does anyone know the reason? I believe the 58 used buses from the D7 batch, followed by a top up of its own. The D7s contract started considerably earlier so I expect there was a pause in deliveries. |
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Post by ! ALEED on Oct 7, 2024 17:57:58 GMT
It seems as though a B5LH MMC has strayed on to the D8, unfortunately I have no pictures, but they are doing amazing on the route. I hope to see the other one on the route soon!
(FYI, 13102 is on the route, 13101 hasn't gone on it yet)
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Post by atb123 on Oct 7, 2024 18:03:12 GMT
It seems as though a B5LH MMC has strayed on to the D8, unfortunately I have no pictures, but they are doing amazing on the route. I hope to see the other one on the route soon! (FYI, 13102 is on the route, 13101 hasn't gone on it yet)  Heres 13102 out on D8 at Stratford |
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Post by ! ALEED on Oct 7, 2024 18:04:56 GMT
It seems as though a B5LH MMC has strayed on to the D8, unfortunately I have no pictures, but they are doing amazing on the route. I hope to see the other one on the route soon! (FYI, 13102 is on the route, 13101 hasn't gone on it yet) Heres 13102 out on D8 at Stratford Thank you! |
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Post by idk123 on Oct 7, 2024 18:52:21 GMT
I think electrification has finally started at HK today, in the yard, half of the ground was digged up and there were digger. It could just be sewage work but I think it’s electrification
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Post by mark on Oct 7, 2024 18:53:03 GMT
15 uniterrupted BZL's on the 58 today. Whoppers. Enjoy East London, enjoy. 👍 ..ending what must surely be the most protracted route conversion ever. It's taken almost four months to commission about 20 buses. Normally four weeks would be considered quite a lengthy period to prepare a fleet of that size for service. Does anyone know the reason? The conversion of the 507 and 521 to BEVs started at the end of August 2016 but the final examples didn’t enter service until late January 2017. |
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Post by ! ALEED on Oct 7, 2024 18:57:16 GMT
I think electrification has finally started at HK today, in the yard, half of the ground was digged up and there were digger. It could just be sewage work but I think it’s electrification I do hope it is for electrification, just as long as it doesn't take as long as TH and hopefully D7 can start converting! |
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Post by exbox on Oct 7, 2024 19:31:59 GMT
..ending what must surely be the most protracted route conversion ever. It's taken almost four months to commission about 20 buses. Normally four weeks would be considered quite a lengthy period to prepare a fleet of that size for service. Does anyone know the reason? The conversion of the 507 and 521 to BEVs started at the end of August 2016 but the final examples didn’t enter service until late January 2017. But it was a brand new technology back then so it is understandable to an extent. No such excuse for the 58 - I wonder if the BZLs were found to have major defects and had to be reworked before entry into service. |
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Post by andyc on Oct 7, 2024 19:51:25 GMT
The conversion of the 507 and 521 to BEVs started at the end of August 2016 but the final examples didn’t enter service until late January 2017. But it was a brand new technology back then so it is understandable to an extent. No such excuse for the 58 - I wonder if the BZLs were found to have major defects and had to be reworked before entry into service. As has been mentioned above, the initial batch of 10 were originally for the D7 and diverted to the 58 - the others are from the 277 batch, and have been slow to be delivered. The last one 86190 only arrived this week. |
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Post by cl54 on Oct 7, 2024 20:47:59 GMT
But it was a brand new technology back then so it is understandable to an extent. No such excuse for the 58 - I wonder if the BZLs were found to have major defects and had to be reworked before entry into service. As has been mentioned above, the initial batch of 10 were originally for the D7 and diverted to the 58 - the others are from the 277 batch, and have been slow to be delivered. The last one 86190 only arrived this week. There were also problems with the LED displays which had to be replaced. |
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Post by WH241 on Oct 7, 2024 21:18:12 GMT
As has been mentioned above, the initial batch of 10 were originally for the D7 and diverted to the 58 - the others are from the 277 batch, and have been slow to be delivered. The last one 86190 only arrived this week. There were also problems with the LED displays which had to be replaced. Did the LED problem affect this batch as well? I thought it was just the 276 buses? |
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on Oct 7, 2024 21:25:47 GMT
There were also problems with the LED displays which had to be replaced. Did the LED problem affect this batch as well? I thought it was just the 276 buses? It seems to be a variety of Mobitec buses that it's happening to, there's seemingly an issue with some of Arriva's ESs too now. |
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Post by vjaska on Oct 7, 2024 22:10:19 GMT
15 uniterrupted BZL's on the 58 today. Whoppers. Enjoy East London, enjoy. 👍 ..ending what must surely be the most protracted route conversion ever. It's taken almost four months to commission about 20 buses. Normally four weeks would be considered quite a lengthy period to prepare a fleet of that size for service. Does anyone know the reason? I’m sure the 235 beat this - four months to commission an electric allocation seems pretty decent compared to other examples which took over a year at least (not referring to the 507/521 but more recent examples, see 297 for example) |
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