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Post by redbus on Apr 18, 2024 20:54:13 GMT
Not as bad as some (most) of the TEHs when they were on the 107... goodness me Oh goodness me I’ve seen videos of some of those TEHs barely making it up the hills on the 107. I took one of the 13-reg TEHs on the 210 and it really struggled on Highgate Hill, never mind the 107. Awful vehicles What I don't understand is this. When the TEHs were new, they went really well, what has happened to them?
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Post by rj131 on Apr 18, 2024 20:55:59 GMT
I photographed this batch when they were new for the 7 in 2014. The refurb has done them no favours. They look awful. I disagree there, the #1 G3’s front lights are far too fiddly and over designed imo. Being cynical a bit of a disguise for an otherwise half-a*sed facelift. So painting it all red to me makes it look much cleaner and neater 😀
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Post by rj131 on Apr 18, 2024 21:18:05 GMT
Oh goodness me I’ve seen videos of some of those TEHs barely making it up the hills on the 107. I took one of the 13-reg TEHs on the 210 and it really struggled on Highgate Hill, never mind the 107. Awful vehicles What I don't understand is this. When the TEHs were new, they went really well, what has happened to them? Probably not knowing how to maintain them properly. Like another member said earlier, the G2 VWHs are difficult to maintain and keep running, the early TEHs are probably the same
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Post by vjaska on Apr 19, 2024 0:55:55 GMT
Oh goodness me I’ve seen videos of some of those TEHs barely making it up the hills on the 107. I took one of the 13-reg TEHs on the 210 and it really struggled on Highgate Hill, never mind the 107. Awful vehicles What I don't understand is this. When the TEHs were new, they went really well, what has happened to them? This doesn't entirely tally with my experience - the 5 original TEH's were good motors and the 60 reg were decent but the others wern't great particularly the 13 reg batch which were awful at W. The 16 became my steed for Saturdays across a number of years as I had a fixation with riding all the 292 VLP's and I used to bus it everywhere at the time. The TEH's that were on the 32 have been run further into the ground when at EW on the 113, really is no surprise the state they're in and I did say when the 32 was retained on the basis of LT's that those TEH's will likely start to be withdrawn given their unreliability.
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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Apr 20, 2024 5:13:05 GMT
Luckily I go to Manchester very often so will definitely go on the prowl for these buses can barely believe they’re 10 years old tbh, they certainly don’t look it Does seem a bit far in advance to be preparing the buses, but nothing like a bit of forward planning. I wonder if they’ll keep the same fleet numbers!!!! As your quite knowledgeable about Manchester, is there any indication what routes these are going on and are these routes mainly town work or cross country? As I live in Stockport I am about to list some sample routes in the Manchester Bee Network thread
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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Apr 20, 2024 5:13:56 GMT
When routes 228 & 316 gain Volvo BZLs, will the DELs just reconvert route 190 or will any move to any other route?
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Post by southlondonbus on Apr 20, 2024 7:06:18 GMT
When routes 228 & 316 gain Volvo BZLs, will the DELs just reconvert route 190 or will any move to any other route? I'd imagine recovering as the VWs are probably needed for the E1 and 697.
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Post by eal1ngvolvo483 on Apr 20, 2024 9:14:11 GMT
When routes 228 & 316 gain Volvo BZLs, will the DELs just reconvert route 190 or will any move to any other route? I'd imagine recovering as the VWs are probably needed for the E1 and 697. Has it been confirmed that E1 is getting VWs?
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Post by borneobus on Apr 20, 2024 12:19:14 GMT
As your quite knowledgeable about Manchester, is there any indication what routes these are going on and are these routes mainly town work or cross country? As I live in Stockport I am about to list some sample routes in the Manchester Bee Network thread ...and as you're a Stockport local, how's the shiny new 'Stockport Interchange' working out? (I haven't been to Stockport for many years but understood it resembled a bomb-site with all the work going on...)
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Post by kmkcheng on Apr 20, 2024 16:40:41 GMT
I'd imagine recovering as the VWs are probably needed for the E1 and 697. Has it been confirmed that E1 is getting VWs? Yes according to LOTS
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Post by eal1ngvolvo483 on Apr 20, 2024 16:49:51 GMT
Has it been confirmed that E1 is getting VWs? Yes according to LOTS Nice, will be interesting to have a TE working alongside it.
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Post by COBO on Apr 20, 2024 17:28:16 GMT
Too bad they got rid of ex First VWs.
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Post by MetrolineGA1511 on Apr 20, 2024 20:47:10 GMT
As I live in Stockport I am about to list some sample routes in the Manchester Bee Network thread ...and as you're a Stockport local, how's the shiny new 'Stockport Interchange' working out? (I haven't been to Stockport for many years but understood it resembled a bomb-site with all the work going on...) Some of the choices of which routes use which stops is quite clever allowing for onward connections. A downside is that you have to cross a road to use routes that do not terminate at Stockport, most notably route 199. Route 192 doesn't even use the bus station, but then with sometimes 3 buses waiting to depart it probably wouldn't work out. Also, the cafe is yet to open in the bus station.
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Post by yunus on Apr 20, 2024 23:27:31 GMT
Is route 31s current alloc of Volvo Hybrids moving with it to HT on the 4 of May? I thought WJ would of had space for both the 28 & 31!
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Post by kmkcheng on Apr 20, 2024 23:45:59 GMT
Is route 31s current alloc of Volvo Hybrids moving with it to HT on the 4 of May? I thought WJ would of had space for both the 28 & 31! The VMHs will be moving with the 31 to HT
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