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Post by Londonbuses54 on Apr 19, 2020 21:48:43 GMT
Abellio walworth had a MIGHTY bus room. I take it that is the one being spoken about here. Believe it or not, i got permission first time around to ‘fill my boots’. So i currently have a tonne of smartblinds from various garages which were stashed in the room under hundreds of blinds and boxes. Sadly, I wasn’t informed of them soon to be chucked out, so I have none of the old Travel London ones, or connex ones You're lucky you got that offer! I had a feeling it was going to be cleared out as a couple of months ago there were some changes to the walking areas in the shed and the room next door had been done up. Sure thing, two weeks later and the room had (mostly) been cleared out. There was one corner they didn't quite get and some of the blinds there were Connex. None of the original non-DDA Trident blinds though sadly. Other garages have a much more lean operation - I've been around and there's nothing of interest left at BC or QB. Ive also tried them two. QB did have some 2018 NRM sets which were cool, but they got send to WL to be chucked out. BC said they didn’t have anything, but doubt that very much haha. Any idea of which smartblinds are kept still in WL? Any yellow ones still?
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Post by TB123 on Apr 19, 2020 21:54:07 GMT
You're lucky you got that offer! I had a feeling it was going to be cleared out as a couple of months ago there were some changes to the walking areas in the shed and the room next door had been done up. Sure thing, two weeks later and the room had (mostly) been cleared out. There was one corner they didn't quite get and some of the blinds there were Connex. None of the original non-DDA Trident blinds though sadly. Other garages have a much more lean operation - I've been around and there's nothing of interest left at BC or QB. Ive also tried them two. QB did have some 2018 NRM sets which were cool, but they got send to WL to be chucked out. BC said they didn’t have anything, but doubt that very much haha. Any idea of which smartblinds are kept still in WL? Any yellow ones still? I've a BC smart blind set at home somewhere. Absolutely immaculate. Came out of one of the 10 plated Enviros that moved over to Walworth a couple years back.
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Post by M1104 on Apr 20, 2020 11:06:42 GMT
E54 now at Plymouth Citybus as fleet number 477
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Post by YY13VKP on Apr 20, 2020 16:01:16 GMT
Abellio walworth had a MIGHTY bus room. I take it that is the one being spoken about here. Believe it or not, i got permission first time around to ‘fill my boots’. So i currently have a tonne of smartblinds from various garages which were stashed in the room under hundreds of blinds and boxes. Sadly, I wasn’t informed of them soon to be chucked out, so I have none of the old Travel London ones, or connex ones You're lucky you got that offer! I had a feeling it was going to be cleared out as a couple of months ago there were some changes to the walking areas in the shed and the room next door had been done up. Sure thing, two weeks later and the room had (mostly) been cleared out. There was one corner they didn't quite get and some of the blinds there were Connex. None of the original non-DDA Trident blinds though sadly. Other garages have a much more lean operation - I've been around and there's nothing of interest left at BC or QB. Most garages seem to have chucked out their old blinds recently, C have given me loads of their old ones over time and I took quite a few during a recent clear out. I have a full set of 2013 smart blinds from one of the 434 buses which I'm hoping to put to use eventually. Alas, MB didn't have much left by the time I visited there last August.
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Post by grahamk748 on Apr 22, 2020 22:12:06 GMT
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Post by M1104 on Apr 22, 2020 23:29:35 GMT
Driven both these machines, both at the time pretty decent. M817 was officially a 295-allocated bus when the route converted back to Ms from the step entrance DRL Darts. The route at the time was based at Battersea Base (BB), then the outstation of Stockwell.
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Post by grahamk748 on Apr 25, 2020 21:38:10 GMT
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Post by grahamk748 on Apr 30, 2020 6:55:54 GMT
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Post by grahamk748 on May 5, 2020 19:30:01 GMT
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Post by 6HP502C on May 10, 2020 22:53:34 GMT
I saw former N Olympian G554 VBB parked on the road in New Addington in its bright orange guise today.
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Post by grahamk748 on May 15, 2020 16:48:50 GMT
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Post by galwhv69 on May 18, 2020 18:53:32 GMT
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Post by M1104 on May 19, 2020 10:39:11 GMT
That used to be one of the favourites among night bus drivers, along with PVL157.
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Post by capitalomnibus on May 19, 2020 12:13:26 GMT
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Post by M1104 on May 21, 2020 23:02:19 GMT
WVL118 with Go-Ahead Ireland as a trainer bus. Photo credit to Aled Kalwoski
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