Comments to User's photos John M.

One of these is regularily at Woods since pre-easter. Will try to check reg at some point of turn up. Not surprisd that might end up with them as well.

Oh, finally changed their "clipart" font

Yes, they don't look right at all :-)

These are so funny looking without the mirrors

I think all new vehicles from 2022 have the A??? and I guess the older ones will gradually be sold on?

Flage poles on the preview, made me to think — What kind of trolleybus line is opened?

Interesting. What is their current fleet number pattern? Some are with the letter A, some still just numbers.

Wow, that's pretty amazing :-)

This is a very interesting one. They pack Safety Coaches with the maximum possible options and perform various tests to see and show how it behaves. Never knew they sell those further to the operators.
This must be the most safe Tourismo in at least few surrounding countries.
Interesting, do the carrier realise what they own?
 
Here is a little part of Safety Coach life in Germany: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wET9nSNZMao

This is their new one, carrying the old plate of pre-restyle, which was sold to Poland.
Updated info in old profile: https://busphoto.club/vehicle/19734

I never even realised, a happy coincidence :-)

Oh, my attention to details
But. Even better. 15500th with too many 5 in the photo

It's 15500 picture. Sorry, boss.

Fleet 15, tour number 5 as 15000th picture. Nice timing
Congrats!

We were in Portsmouth over the weekend, and they’ve built a new bus road along Cascades Shopping and the NCP multi-storey, and all the buses heading to the city centre use it. Of course, I didn’t know about it beforehand and didn’t have a camera with me. Will make another trip later this month if I survive the dead standstill on the Chichester bypass on the way there

No classification change and as far as it is know, no planned changes until Series 600 launch. Still unsure what to do with abnormally overgrown Mercedes and MAN generations.

If model and classification is the same just as well leave as is?

Setra received facelifts, you can see the difference here. New grille and new side logo, but model or classification did not change officially. Should we keep them as is?

Clearcoat noticeably faded in the last 11 years. But nice it is still alive and running   

The only 'ST' numbered NBFL, it is actually shorter than the standard 'LT' ones :-)

We are still far from full Yutong invasion, because of their product range and our standstill motorways (the only large electric Yutong is on test with NatEx YD24 EUB and can only run twice Stratford - Stansted before the long charge) But for 100-150 miles these diesels are perfect.
While every second factory was complaining about post Covid, the Chinese went ahead and created a product that might not look appealing, it’s not super comfortable, but it can handle point A to point B routes in a loop. I checked VOSA recently for one of them. 73 plate made more miles than standard NateEx Caetano

Whippet is out of Flixbus as of now, complaining about low commissions from them. First Bus is taking over, has already started operations, and is introducing 21 new Yutong buses.
 
It looks like they’ll be using First Bus’s existing city presence to subsidise the Flixbus routes.
We’ll see how it plays out.

Wright StreetDeck Hydroliner

Oh, the Covid one. Sat for 2 years in MAN factory since ex.works

Wright StreetDeck Electroliner

Really interesting, how Kavanagh, running Setras for at least 20 years, ended up buying this in 2019.
Marqoos catched this in Ireland then as well https://busphoto.club/view/1843/

Photo taken a few weeks after https://busphoto.club/view/14671/

Now with revised Jurassic Coaster Titles.

First "City Reds" will close in February 2023 and First will withdraw from Southampton. Go Ahead Bluestar will take over.

Possibly the last vehicle I will see in Bournemouth / Yellow Buses livery as they ceased trading on the 4th August 2022. The coach operation may carry on with National Express.

Ляяяя какой

Wooow, What a catch! Thought it is sent somewhere for parts to South Africa. Hat off to the owner that it is preserved and brought back to the initial look

This is interesting according to MAN service data. Got Engine failure on delivery in 2002, was sent back to Munich for repairs, then came back to Dealer in 2003 and at that time MAN issued a few recalls while travelled, so they fixed them for about a year and in 2004 it was finally delivered to Sim's Travel, Cumbria and got 04 plates. Unfortunately, no info on the very first plate. Might be the trade plates.
 
By the way 11800 pic on site and this interesting story Congrats and thanks

Интересный аппарат

And here we are. VDL Groep has closed VDL Bus & Coach Division by producing the last bus "Citea" today on 3 Feb 2022. Since today, the owner, VDL Groep will convert the bus and coach factory to the ecological housing module production.

Thanks Andrejs, I was hoping you would spot this and add details :-)

What a find Added Netherlands details.
Very interesting 55 Plate as well. Looks like DVLA just put import date, not the registration

As Bognor is 7 miles away from me now, still trying to locate their garage to do a spot run
They restarted local routes and school runs on a regular basis, coaches seen every day, but the office is still closed to walk in and ask.

Very interesting conversion. By the old pics, it was already produced with low front, but door fitted later, which looks very foreign, comparing for example with Megabus ones, which had a double door for the wheelchair initially. Thanks for photo

Цитата (AndrejsB, 18.01.2022 21:04):
>One of two drivers passed away
Oh, shit. RIP to him.
Crazy cause.

Unfotunately yes. One of two drivers passed away then

Absolutely no chances.
Looks crazy...

Oh my word, I guess the driver didn't have much chance, looks very serious :-(

In 2020 heavily crashed in Ukraine https://usionline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/0d796a5c-2386-42d8-970c-51239ce5e39d.jpg

Oh wow! I heard about it but never seen. Thanks. If I know correct, these were supposed to be made for Hong Kong, but later administration and bankrupt of the factory crossed all plans.
That chassis layout is their style. Same as on old MCWs https://busphoto.club/view/4428/

As far as I remember, these (logo in bold) are Majestic Travel and the other two (straight letters and stripes) are Majestic Tours. So I vote for Majestic Travel (Hortons)

Or just have these as Majestic Travel (Hortons).

Not sure Andrejs, These are Majestic (Hortons) and I think we only have 4 so far. Not to be confused with Majestic (Bluebird of Neath) and Majestic (Dealtop) which are all separate carriers and not related in any way

I think it is the time to put Majestic as a separate Brand. Not the first and not the last on site
How would be the best to name them, not to confuse them wth other, not related Majestics?

Guys! Don't argue This is Scania, which was built in two countries. Chassis - Sweden, Body - Finland (Lahti city). Its name is Lahti OmniExpress, and there is no need to make a separate model in the list, since there are no differences from the standard Scania. Most likely it is the Lahti OmniExpress 340 or 360...

So, let's vote how we do We can leave these as Scania OmniExpress, or put Lahden OmniExpress under Scania. Something similar to EastLancs/Darwen

Reading the Wikipedia entry for this I reckon go with Scania OmniExpress as it says they were built by Lahden but would be known as "Scania OmniExpress" :-)

Not sure about these. Any ideas how to keep these? We have one Lithuanian in the list as well which is questionable.
 
They were basically, always made by Lahden finnish bodyshop on Scania chassis, but always sold as Scania OmniExpress. Same with Touring HD which is practically built by Higher, but still sold as Touring HD.
 
But the thing is, not all of these do have second long Serial, what is definitely makes it Lahden VIN

I created. Because, why not It was an event, so, yes.
Myself, still have some 2013 Worthing to load to the site. Will try in the shortest time

I only have 8 new photos from this day Andrejs but if you think a new gallery is needed? 2021 WHOTT Running Day, Dorchester

Was this WHOTT running day? Can do gallery if needed John

Thanks for letting me in, rpr is a very lucky survivor as John Caines bought her from a scrapyard in 1985, he sold her in 1995, she was sold again not long after, around 1996, she was used for various parts for another Val. It was bought on the 6th of December 2015 and was yet again saved from the gas axe.

Welcome from me also, I was beaten to the correction by Admin :-p

Welcome to the Club Vxmad. Hope you'll like it here. Thank you for correction!

The build date for RPR738K is 1971, she was bought at the end of the season and kept back until the following year which gives her a registration date of 1972