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Post by Connor on Nov 27, 2023 17:24:35 GMT
Not in London service, it's a trainer bus at present but TE906 can hit just somewhere between 60-70 mph ![;)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/wink.png)
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Post by COBO on Dec 6, 2023 15:52:31 GMT
Does the 242 enter the Central London ULEZ?
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Post by wirewiper on Dec 6, 2023 16:02:25 GMT
Does the 242 enter the Central London ULEZ? Yes it does - part of Aldgate High Street and Aldgate Bus Station are inside the zone. So any bus on the 242 needs to be hybrid or electric.
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Post by wirewiper on Dec 6, 2023 16:16:35 GMT
Just wondering what's the fastest you've been on a bus. Mine is about 45mph on the 203s MCL30307. The fastest speed officially recorded for a standard service bus was just over 80mph, this was recorded by Reading Buses 420, a Scania KUB270 / Alexander-Dennis Enviro300 GS on 19th May 2015. Fortunately this speed was achieved under controlled conditions on the Millbrook Test Track in Bedfordshire, and not on the streets of Reading! The speed trial was part of #projectvroom, which did have a serious purpose - to demonstrate the viability of Compressed Natural Gas as an alternative fuel source for buses. The bus received only minor modifications for the trial, the main one being the fitting of reinforced tyres. The Cow Poo Bus by Julian Walker, on Flickr
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Post by COBO on Dec 10, 2023 22:17:48 GMT
To ask might be a silly question but did the Leyland bus manufacturer have a factory in Park Royal?
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Post by SILENCED on Dec 10, 2023 22:36:38 GMT
To ask might be a silly question but did the Leyland bus manufacturer have a factory in Park Royal? Pretty sure it was in Workington. That's the place my memory connects to Leyland Buses.
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Post by capitalomnibus on Dec 10, 2023 22:39:10 GMT
To ask might be a silly question but did the Leyland bus manufacturer have a factory in Park Royal? I believe they purchased Park Royal Vehicles bodybuliders from AEC. The Leyland Titan was the last bus to be built there.
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Post by Dstock7080 on Dec 11, 2023 3:06:25 GMT
I believe they purchased Park Royal Vehicles bodybuliders from AEC. The Leyland Titan was the last bus to be built there. ACV Associated Commercial Vehicles (formerly AEC) was merged with Leyland Motors Group in 1962, the Park Royal site closed with Titan production in July 1980.
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Post by astock5000 on Dec 11, 2023 5:13:29 GMT
To ask might be a silly question but did the Leyland bus manufacturer have a factory in Park Royal? Pretty sure it was in Workington. That's the place my memory connects to Leyland Buses. Workington was opened as a new factory to produce the Leyland National, later taking over production of Titans (as said above) and Olympians (initially produced in the former Bristol factory, as the VR's replacement), with the National being replaced by the Lynx. Earlier generations of Leyland buses would have been built in Lancashire, but as mentioned, with the various takeovers / mergers by the 1970s they had acquired several other factories with AEC, Bristol, etc. These gradually closed as their product range was simplified, Leyland lost some market share, and later on deregulation also affected orders of full-size buses. In the case of Park Royal industrial relations issues also contributed to its closure.
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Post by matthieu1221 on Dec 20, 2023 21:57:07 GMT
londonbusroutes.net has updated the Xmas and NYE pages with all the available information as of now.
Route 148's "hour [long] gap around 0600 (as on Good Friday)" seems to stick around once again this year.
Would anyone happen to know why it is the 148 and seemingly only the 148 that has this oddity?
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Post by Catford94 on Dec 21, 2023 0:45:48 GMT
londonbusroutes.net has updated the Xmas and NYE pages with all the available information as of now. Route 148's "hour [long] gap around 0600 (as on Good Friday)" seems to stick around once again this year. Would anyone happen to know why it is the 148 and seemingly only the 148 that has this oddity?
I can't explain this specific one.
At the risk of possibly saying what people already know, London 24 hour routes do have a separate bit of the contract for what TFL specify as 'night' journeys, even though the route number (in this case) N148 only exists on paper and in systems and isn't seen by the public.
Operationally, night journeys are mostly part of the previous operating day's bus / duty schedule - although there are a few occasions where an early starting 'day' bus and driver starts with a 'night' journey, and / or a few night buses / drivers finish their night's work with a journey on the following day's 'day' service.
Bank holiday weekends, and days round Christmas and New Year can get complicated with night bus services, as you have (for example) a Sunday night service leading in to a Sunday day service when it's a Sunday followed by a bank holiday Monday, so occasionally special schedules / duties (maybe just for one or two buses) have to be created.
Christmas week is more complicated as it tends to be a Saturday day service followed by a weekday night service followed by another Saturday day service.
The failing here, and if it happened around Good Friday (which is Saturday service), seems to be there's journey/s that would normally run on a Saturday morning (maybe journeys being done by a Friday night duty / bus) that are not being operated here.
Whether it's something in the contract that doesn't match, or something in the way the operator has put their schedules together has not taken this in to account, I couldn't say. For it to happen more than once - even if it was too late to sort out at Easter - seems more than just unfortunate...
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Post by yunus on Dec 23, 2023 14:01:44 GMT
Do newer original EUROVI Diesel MMCs have regenarative braking? Or is it only a Hybrid/Electric vehicle feature?
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Post by SILENCED on Dec 23, 2023 14:07:44 GMT
Do newer original EUROVI Diesel MMCs have regenarative braking? Or is it only a Hybrid/Electric vehicle feature? Where would it store the energy?
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Post by yunus on Dec 23, 2023 16:01:29 GMT
Do newer original EUROVI Diesel MMCs have regenarative braking? Or is it only a Hybrid/Electric vehicle feature? Where would it store the energy? Spot on point, my error again 😂. Even Smart Hybrids have capacitors so when the driver kindly breaks it stores energy whereas conventional Diesels solely use their fantastic engines.
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Post by Volvo on Dec 24, 2023 17:43:39 GMT
May sound like a stupid question but why do most of not all single door buses have a manually operated ramp?
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