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Post by ilovelondonbuses on May 17, 2020 19:14:26 GMT
View AttachmentJust walked past Beddington Cross garage, there's about 9 of these new E400s parked up ready for the 270.(photo taken from the pathway so sorry for the ropey quality) Can't wait for the Abellio Beddington Cross takeover of route 270 to happen at the end of the month. Definitely my most anticipated takeover of the year alongside Arriva South Croydon taking over the 405 in August with the new HTs and Abellio Twickenham finally getting a fully 24 hour double deck route in the form of route 285.
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Post by LK65EBO on May 17, 2020 19:35:51 GMT
Just walked past Beddington Cross garage, there's about 9 of these new E400s parked up ready for the 270.(photo taken from the pathway so sorry for the ropey quality) Can't wait for the Abellio Beddington Cross takeover of route 270 to happen at the end of the month. Definitely my most anticipated takeover of the year alongside Arriva South Croydon taking over the 405 in August with the new HTs and Abellio Twickenham finally getting a fully 24 hour double deck route in the form of route 285. I just wanna see those Arriva Enviro 400 MMCs
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Post by southlondonbus on May 17, 2020 19:47:21 GMT
So do I. Kind of a shame now the 466 isn't getting new buses as undoubtedly they would have ordered the same. I wonder how much they will stay on the 405.
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Post by TB123 on May 17, 2020 19:59:52 GMT
Just walked past Beddington Cross garage, there's about 9 of these new E400s parked up ready for the 270.(photo taken from the pathway so sorry for the ropey quality) Can't wait for the Abellio Beddington Cross takeover of route 270 to happen at the end of the month. Definitely my most anticipated takeover of the year alongside Arriva South Croydon taking over the 405 in August with the new HTs and Abellio Twickenham finally getting a fully 24 hour double deck route in the form of route 285. Looking forward to seeing new buses at TC but a bit disappointed to see it leave GoAhead - often talk to the 405 drivers when I'm working at Redhill and they are a lovely bunch. Only a few are moving over to Arriva with the route. I'm sure they'll do a good job but it is a bit of a shame to see it go after 17 years.
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Post by TB123 on May 17, 2020 20:00:38 GMT
So do I. Kind of a shame now the 466 isn't getting new buses as undoubtedly they would have ordered the same. I wonder how much they will stay on the 405. Don't see them being used on many other routes - and from what I hear from a friend of mine who works down there, that's most likely to be the case.
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Post by george on May 17, 2020 20:01:51 GMT
Just walked past Beddington Cross garage, there's about 9 of these new E400s parked up ready for the 270.(photo taken from the pathway so sorry for the ropey quality) Can't wait for the Abellio Beddington Cross takeover of route 270 to happen at the end of the month. Definitely my most anticipated takeover of the year alongside Arriva South Croydon taking over the 405 in August with the new HTs and Abellio Twickenham finally getting a fully 24 hour double deck route in the form of route 285. I'm also looking forward to it, to be honest I was looking forward to QB taken on a non LT route but obviously that is no longer happening but still nice to have a BC route in Putney. My most anticipated takeover for me is the 285 mainly because it's a tender I had predicted for a while. I think if you last most people overall the 25 would the one their most looking forward to.
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Post by rif153 on May 17, 2020 20:57:15 GMT
Just walked past Beddington Cross garage, there's about 9 of these new E400s parked up ready for the 270.(photo taken from the pathway so sorry for the ropey quality) Can't wait for the Abellio Beddington Cross takeover of route 270 to happen at the end of the month. Definitely my most anticipated takeover of the year alongside Arriva South Croydon taking over the 405 in August with the new HTs and Abellio Twickenham finally getting a fully 24 hour double deck route in the form of route 285. I agree TF taking over the 285 is very exciting, finally some conventional hybrids for the garage and will be very interesting to have an Abellio decker route in Kingston.
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Post by LK65EBO on May 17, 2020 20:58:37 GMT
Can't wait for the Abellio Beddington Cross takeover of route 270 to happen at the end of the month. Definitely my most anticipated takeover of the year alongside Arriva South Croydon taking over the 405 in August with the new HTs and Abellio Twickenham finally getting a fully 24 hour double deck route in the form of route 285. I agree TF taking over the 285 is very exciting, finally some conventional hybrids for the garage and will be very interesting to have an Abellio decker route in Kingston. It's interesting that TF finally has its own double decker route.
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Post by rif153 on May 17, 2020 21:00:10 GMT
I agree TF taking over the 285 is very exciting, finally some conventional hybrids for the garage and will be very interesting to have an Abellio decker route in Kingston. It's interesting that TF finally has its own double decker route. Well they do have the 267 though of course that hardly ''feels'' like an Abellio route because it has the LT interior.
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Post by LK65EBO on May 17, 2020 21:01:33 GMT
It's interesting that TF finally has its own double decker route. Well they do have the 267 though of course that hardly ''feels'' like an Abellio route because it has the LT interior. Oops forgot about the 267. The 267 still feels like a London United route to me. Whenever I think about the 267 the first thing that comes to my mind is London United.
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Post by george on May 17, 2020 21:02:58 GMT
I agree TF taking over the 285 is very exciting, finally some conventional hybrids for the garage and will be very interesting to have an Abellio decker route in Kingston. It's interesting that TF finally has its own double decker route. Don't forgot the garage had the U5 briefly as well.
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Post by george on May 17, 2020 21:04:29 GMT
It's interesting that TF finally has its own double decker route. Well they do have the 267 though of course that hardly ''feels'' like an Abellio route because it has the LT interior. I'm really hoping just like 205 drivers being typed trained on the new 25 buses, 267 drivers will be typed trained on the new 285 buses so there's a chance of a stray.
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Post by LK65EBO on May 17, 2020 21:04:51 GMT
It's interesting that TF finally has its own double decker route. Don't forgot the garage had the U5 briefly as well. Yep, I remember that. Going back further down the line I seem to remember that TF had the 350 with the Enviro 400MMCs. This was short lived however and the Enviro 400MMCs were swapped to the U5 with brand new Enviro 200MMCs taking their place on the 350.
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2020 21:23:00 GMT
Can't wait for the Abellio Beddington Cross takeover of route 270 to happen at the end of the month. Definitely my most anticipated takeover of the year alongside Arriva South Croydon taking over the 405 in August with the new HTs and Abellio Twickenham finally getting a fully 24 hour double deck route in the form of route 285. I agree TF taking over the 285 is very exciting, finally some conventional hybrids for the garage and will be very interesting to have an Abellio decker route in Kingston. I can see the 285s buses getting the SK20 registrations
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Post by SILENCED on May 17, 2020 21:34:18 GMT
I agree TF taking over the 285 is very exciting, finally some conventional hybrids for the garage and will be very interesting to have an Abellio decker route in Kingston. I can see the 285s buses getting the SK20 registrations Possible if built at Falkirk, but if the batch is built at Scarborough they will be Y*20
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