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Post by lc1 on May 9, 2007 19:57:21 GMT
Slightly off topic, sorry - but what are you getting your shares at, £19 something like the rest of us or is the drivers rate different? Yeah for this lot, I'm getting some (191 to be precise) from last year at £14 something lastest price is £26 something so already a nice little profit.
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Post by M1104 on Dec 1, 2007 13:58:33 GMT
Does anyone know if Travel London's bidding for any routes in the Croydon/Crystal Palace area....ie the 358, 466, 405, etc? Same query with Arriva and London General.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2007 23:13:25 GMT
I can't see London General bidding for 358, 466 and 405 as Metrobus operate them? A Go Ahead company bidding against another? It would be like saying London General bidding for the X26 when Metrobus are running it.
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Post by Steve80 on Dec 2, 2007 22:30:07 GMT
Does anyone know if Travel London's bidding for any routes in the Croydon/Crystal Palace area....ie the 358, 466, 405, etc? Same query with Arriva and London General. When are these routes out for tender? Can't see metrobus losing any of these routes imo. One passenger at crystal palace was moaning about the 358 drivers for some reason last month. Also, theres alot of buses I not seen before at BC so I sure theres enough buses to cover should they win any of them. There alot of drivers here who talk fondly about the 405 when it was at connex.
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Post by M1104 on Dec 16, 2007 18:43:18 GMT
Does anyone know if Travel London's bidding for any routes in the Croydon/Crystal Palace area....ie the 358, 466, 405, etc? Same query with Arriva and London General. When are these routes out for tender? Can't see metrobus losing any of these routes imo. One passenger at crystal palace was moaning about the 358 drivers for some reason last month. Also, theres alot of buses I not seen before at BC so I sure theres enough buses to cover should they win any of them. . I've noticed on the latest batch of tenders that contracts won by a different operator are ordering new buses. Selkent's route 177 was retained and even there the company have ordered new Scanias identical to the SP class on route 148. Going back a few months to when Travel London were trying to push the V reg. Tridents to Travel West Midlands, why couldn't they have simply sent the 51 reg. Tridents up there and ordered new euro4 buses for the 3? At least TWM would've been more satisfied as those euro3 Tridents are in much better condition (apart from the engine management on some, but they are easily programmable). I always thought London companies had first priority regarding new buses, especially to keep up with TfL's forever changing conditions; ie' forward staircase, large bus blinds, euro4 engines, plug in doors, no tip up seats, etc.
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Post by M1104 on Dec 17, 2007 13:13:37 GMT
According to a reliable source, planning permission has been granted to Travel London for a small new garage at Cunard Road, North Acton.
Capacity has been stated as 16 single deckers and 22 double deckers. Anyone know what routes could be transfered here, or are they for future tenders?
Just out of interest, the 211 starts from Hammersmith, the C1 from White City and the 452 from Kensal Rise. I'm not too sure of their distances from North Acton.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 17, 2007 21:16:14 GMT
Is that where the 207 bendys were originally to have been based before planning permission was denied and the hayes garage was opened? C1 starting from white city looks quite quick along the A4, hammersmith and kensal rise slightly further but not a million miles away.
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Post by M1104 on Dec 21, 2007 5:36:21 GMT
Route 434 has been awarded to Travel London, or should I say National Express: London. I assume it will operate from Beddington.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2007 18:35:26 GMT
Route 434 has been awarded to Travel London, or should I say National Express: London. I assume it will operate from Beddington. Battersea and Walworth are packed to the rafters.
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Post by M1104 on Dec 21, 2007 20:40:16 GMT
Route 434 has been awarded to Travel London, or should I say National Express: London. I assume it will operate from Beddington. Battersea and Walworth are packed to the rafters. True, but i've been told Battersea have applied to Wandsworth Council for planning permission to increase the size of QB.
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Post by Steve80 on Dec 22, 2007 3:35:10 GMT
Yes with new facilities and increased capacity. They say they hope to start work during summer 2008.
I assume the 434 would go to BC although theres no mention of it in the garage. They normally put such information on the noticeboard.
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Post by M1104 on Dec 29, 2007 14:19:51 GMT
Yes with new facilities and increased capacity. They say they hope to start work during summer 2008. I assume the 434 would go to BC although theres no mention of it in the garage. They normally put such information on the noticeboard. It could be with everything more or less on hiatus during the Xmas period a notice may be placed early January. I've noticed 9052 on route 3 over the last few days in a row. Are Volvos being re introduced on the 3? Appearantly this is an additional Volvo rather than a replacement for one of the other five buses. Having said that, 9071 is off the road for accident repair, but is still at BC (still blinded on 157).
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Post by Deleted on Dec 29, 2007 16:12:06 GMT
According to a reliable source, planning permission has been granted to Travel London for a small new garage at Cunard Road, North Acton. Capacity has been stated as 16 single deckers and 22 double deckers. Anyone know what routes could be transfered here, or are they for future tenders? Just out of interest, the 211 starts from Hammersmith, the C1 from White City and the 452 from Kensal Rise. I'm not too sure of their distances from North Acton. From North Acton, Hammersmith (211) is about 3 miles away; White City (C1) is 2 miles, and Kensal Rise (452) is around 1.5 - 2 miles away.
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Post by Steve80 on Dec 29, 2007 20:27:41 GMT
Yes with new facilities and increased capacity. They say they hope to start work during summer 2008. I assume the 434 would go to BC although theres no mention of it in the garage. They normally put such information on the noticeboard. It could be with everything more or less on hiatus during the Xmas period a notice may be placed early January. I've noticed 9052 on route 3 over the last few days in a row. Are Volvos being re introduced on the 3? Appearantly this is an additional Volvo rather than a replacement for one of the other five buses. Having said that, 9071 is off the road for accident repair, but is still at BC (still blinded on 157). Yes thats probably right. All the space in the noticeboard is used up for the xmas messages about pay etc. Haven't been at work since xmas eve so maybe they changed it by now? I driven that volvo on the 3. Its exactly the same as the others in BC. Why couldn't they get the ones from WL as there much better In fact why did we get another volvo? and I have no idea why they put it on the 3 especially as I heard that TFL officials met up with travel london to discuss about the poor performance of the route 3 which hadn't reached its targets since the renewal in february. I also hear that they told the controllers to get rid of certain drivers on the 3 route. I could name several drivers that should get off the route ;D And they should get rid off the slow buses on the 3s. Most of the 9761-74 ranges. The 9751-59 have faster accelaration imo but they seem to put them on the 157. However, since I came back from holiday I noticed 9740 and 9758, two fast buses, have got new side mirrors so obviously someone must have damaged those buses. Last time I drove 9740 the fast accelaration seem to have been tampered with
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Post by M1104 on Dec 30, 2007 1:19:58 GMT
It could be with everything more or less on hiatus during the Xmas period a notice may be placed early January. I've noticed 9052 on route 3 over the last few days in a row. Are Volvos being re introduced on the 3? Appearantly this is an additional Volvo rather than a replacement for one of the other five buses. Having said that, 9071 is off the road for accident repair, but is still at BC (still blinded on 157). Yes thats probably right. All the space in the noticeboard is used up for the xmas messages about pay etc. Haven't been at work since xmas eve so maybe they changed it by now? I driven that volvo on the 3. Its exactly the same as the others in BC. Why couldn't they get the ones from WL as there much better In fact why did we get another volvo? and I have no idea why they put it on the 3 especially as I heard that TFL officials met up with travel london to discuss about the poor performance of the route 3 which hadn't reached its targets since the renewal in february. I also hear that they told the controllers to get rid of certain drivers on the 3 route. I could name several drivers that should get off the route ;D And they should get rid off the slow buses on the 3s. Most of the 9761-74 ranges. The 9751-59 have faster accelaration imo but they seem to put them on the 157. However, since I came back from holiday I noticed 9740 and 9758, two fast buses, have got new side mirrors so obviously someone must have damaged those buses. Last time I drove 9740 the fast accelaration seem to have been tampered with 9052 is actually a WL bus (part of their 9001-9064 allocation). it's on loan to BC until one of the Volvos from Hayes becomes available, I assume that will be in March 2008 when the H50 becomes 350 and only one Volvo is needed on route instead of up to four. BC should be getting part of the 9066-69 allocation, which I believe are 55 reg, but with plug in doors and CCTV screens like your 06 reg. batch. The reason 9052 is on the 3 is because it doesn't have full blinds for the 157 (WL accidently sent a 55 reg bus when it should've been an old style route blind bus. one...ie 54 reg. Volvo 9001-20). As for the 9761-74 Trident range, most of them are fast....except 9764 and 9772, which seems to have faulty pumps. In any case, it's not worth allocating only the fast Tridents on the 3 because: 1) it will just be sitting in traffic up west. 2) the bus may be fast today, then slow tomorrow (especially with engines that are more computer orientated like your 9739-9834 batch) By the way, why do your Tridents over-revv during drive? Those buses must be exhausting quite a lot of waste fuel. I'm guessing the compressors are not correctly set. The Tridents I notice it on are: 9727/31/32/34/35/47/48/52/53/60/61/62/64/67 and 68. Also some of Transdev older ALX400 ZF Volvos and London Central's PVLs do it as well. All these buses are on ZF. The only Voith buses i've known to hear over-revving as some of the euro 3 DLAs from TH and DLA ?13 from BN.
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