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Post by rj131 on Jul 5, 2024 17:26:03 GMT
Looks like T217 is the last T standing at WN Last of the W3 batch of Ts remaining at WN. Possibly retained to replace T262 from the 329 batch, which has been withdrawn and sold for scrap. What happened to T262?
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Post by richard on Jul 5, 2024 18:12:17 GMT
Looks like T217 is the last T standing at WN Last of the W3 batch of Ts remaining at WN. Possibly retained to replace T262 from the 329 batch, which has been withdrawn and sold for scrap. Strange seeing the W3 fully hybrid! I've not seen any Ts for at least a Month now
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Post by rj131 on Jul 5, 2024 18:16:54 GMT
Last of the W3 batch of Ts remaining at WN. Possibly retained to replace T262 from the 329 batch, which has been withdrawn and sold for scrap. Strange seeing the W3 fully hybrid! I've not seen any Ts for at least a Month now Also strange seeing Wright buses on what was a ‘black sheep’ staunch ADL route. Because of its fleet legacy I think the HAs would have suited it much better tbh, but oh well
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Post by COBO on Jul 5, 2024 18:22:11 GMT
Did the W3 T’s have blinds for the other WN routes?
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Post by kbuses on Jul 5, 2024 18:57:54 GMT
Last of the W3 batch of Ts remaining at WN. Possibly retained to replace T262 from the 329 batch, which has been withdrawn and sold for scrap. What happened to T262? Sorry no idea 🤷♂️
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Post by kbuses on Jul 5, 2024 19:11:22 GMT
Did the W3 T’s have blinds for the other WN routes? T209/211/213/217/224/225&226 all worked the 221 and T209/211/215/216/217/224/225&226 all worked the 144 and T204-212/214-226 all worked the 329. Hv201-206 seem to be mainly route bound to the W3 since arriving from EC. At present only a couple of appearances on route UL55 (204&205) and a couple of 10-15 log ons on the 221 (203&206).
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Post by dace2 on Jul 5, 2024 20:14:23 GMT
Did the W3 T’s have blinds for the other WN routes? Only 7 of them. T209, T211, T215, T224-226. Then T217 got reblinded around this year. For W3s HVs are HV242, 248, 323 and I think HV206 which also has 329 on it. HV233-235, 237, 243, 245-247 which those have WN blinds except 329.
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Post by richard on Jul 5, 2024 22:27:17 GMT
Strange seeing the W3 fully hybrid! I've not seen any Ts for at least a Month now Also strange seeing Wright buses on what was a ‘black sheep’ staunch ADL route. Because of its fleet legacy I think the HAs would have suited it much better tbh, but oh well I did like the DWs on the W3 it was just something different from a T. Thinking about it I haven't seen a single DW on the route for ages now
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Post by capitalomnibus on Jul 5, 2024 23:53:20 GMT
That may only be a loan as it should be a 329 vehicle unlike T217 which is a native WN motor I thought it started from [LV]
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Post by capitalomnibus on Jul 6, 2024 0:01:59 GMT
Last of the W3 batch of Ts remaining at WN. Possibly retained to replace T262 from the 329 batch, which has been withdrawn and sold for scrap. What happened to T262? Heavy front offside damage on the 329. Driver likely to have fallen asleep at the wheel and crashed the bus into the central reservation island heading back towards the garage just after Palmers Green junction. Severe hidden chassis damage and front offside axle, and wheelarch pushed back, as well as other front and offside panels damaged.
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Post by redexpress on Jul 6, 2024 14:00:18 GMT
Strange seeing the W3 fully hybrid! I've not seen any Ts for at least a Month now Also strange seeing Wright buses on what was a ‘black sheep’ staunch ADL route. Because of its fleet legacy I think the HAs would have suited it much better tbh, but oh well Depends how far you want to go with the legacy. W3 was (in practice if not on paper) fully VLW for years before the move to LV saw it downgraded back to DLA.
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Post by rj131 on Jul 6, 2024 14:16:08 GMT
Also strange seeing Wright buses on what was a ‘black sheep’ staunch ADL route. Because of its fleet legacy I think the HAs would have suited it much better tbh, but oh well Depends how far you want to go with the legacy. W3 was (in practice if not on paper) fully VLW for years before the move to LV saw it downgraded back to DLA. Yeah fair enough, wasn’t aware of the VLWs. I’ve only been into London bus since about 2010/11 so I’ve only known the W3 with the Ts, I was aware of the DLAs too On your topic of in practice if not on paper allocations, I’ve always wondered why AD have such a (rather unique) habit of completely changing on paper allocations, and not with strays but with nearly the whole daily allocations The 340’s SWs got changed with Ts (but that’s understandable due to SW issues) But the 34 has nearly fully used the 102’s 66-reg HVs nearly constantly over the last 5 years The 141 likes using the 14-reg HVs on paper for the 34 (I know a few are surplus) And the 102 seems to mostly use the older 141 G2 HVs Not to mention the constant switching of the 102/329 older and newer Ts, AND the 102 constantly using nearly all of the 329’s T while it also used a lot of 14 and 66 reg HVs, while the 329 was at AD garage that is. It’s very peculiar so much so that most of the buses spend barely any time on their own on-paper routes. I can’t recall any other garage that does this to such an extent
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Post by bigbaddom1981 on Jul 6, 2024 14:55:58 GMT
I’ve noticed the recent HVs at Wood Green using blind sets from I presume Ts as they are the dayglo green colour so looks odd as only ever seen white in the newer HVs
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Post by dace2 on Jul 6, 2024 15:54:52 GMT
I’ve noticed the recent HVs at Wood Green using blind sets from I presume Ts as they are the dayglo green colour so looks odd as only ever seen white in the newer HVs Just imagine AR doing the same thing. They used to use dayglo aswell.
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Post by dace2 on Jul 6, 2024 15:57:59 GMT
The day 64 is supposed to have electrics introduced. Looks like their fully using Ts.
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