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(27/07/2012 14:16)mic Wrote: [ -> ]

(27/07/2012 14:14)Damien Wrote: [ -> ]

(27/07/2012 13:54)mic Wrote: [ -> ]a third bus on loan to Pioneer is Bury based 34028

40341 is in BN workshops 40381 as we know accident damaged and it looks like 40366 is in workshops somewhere

You can keep 34028 before it and 34291/4 are retired for good next month

it still has first manchester legals so it is on hire anyway think pioneer is getting 10 B7s from West Yorkshire

anyone seen solo 40313 not seen at Ashton since April

34028,34291/4 are due to go anyway next month as they had longer MOT's than the other p reg olys. So they are due to go when the new buses come

(27/07/2012 14:55)WWH44L Wrote: [ -> ]

(27/07/2012 14:06)mic Wrote: [ -> ]

(27/07/2012 14:02)WWH44L Wrote: [ -> ]BN Workshops are full of Darts being worked on!

is 40381 there

Don't know. Can only see from the road. There is a Dart in the top scrap car park but that was there before 40381 had it's accident. Think that may be 40362.

Btw - is school bus 68226 at BN or still at QS? I know BN had three of these 68225/7/9 but I saw four at the depot yesterday, three in the bottom corner (with two school Versas) but there was another Vexheil one in the depot yard.

found out the accident was casued when the driver had to take action due to a parked car in the way up that road

Not to sure whether this has been reported but apparently 154 Bury-NMGH service has now transferred to Queens Road Depot who have apparently got enough spare vehicles to cover if one of the Hybrids brakes down

Also from what I got told today regarding the incident involving a Dennis Dart near Oldham Mumps, drivers had reported problems with the vehicle a number of times recently as apparently its reverse gear doesn't work hence why it couldn't be shifted, and only in the past couple of weeks it was allocated to a duty on 64s which for the uninitiated involves a reverse in Middleton Bus Station, apparently a driver had loaded the passengers and went to reverse out of the stand then realised that he didn't have reverse so the passengers ended up on the next following service

Some Bury Spotting's this afternoon

37293 X35
37292 93
61137 474
69165 472
69166 163
60259 510
60260 94
60264 524
12007 135
60226 471
60276 510
60247 471
60234 469
12014 471
12013 135

BOLTON DARTS

40402 513
40371 512
49121 512

(27/07/2012 19:52)M60lad Wrote: [ -> ]Not to sure whether this has been reported but apparently 154 Bury-NMGH service has now transferred to Queens Road Depot who have apparently got enough spare vehicles to cover if one of the Hybrids brakes down

Also from what I got told today regarding the incident involving a Dennis Dart near Oldham Mumps, drivers had reported problems with the vehicle a number of times recently as apparently its reverse gear doesn't work hence why it couldn't be shifted, and only in the past couple of weeks it was allocated to a duty on 64s which for the uninitiated involves a reverse in Middleton Bus Station, apparently a driver had loaded the passengers and went to reverse out of the stand then realised that he didn't have reverse so the passengers ended up on the next following service

Would make sense, as I know 49118 is Queens Road's and I did always think Queens Road should do it, I know the hybrids at Bury all two of them, have been incredibly troublesome. Its more there area cheetham hill NMGH etc. Come to think of it being in Bury every day as I am. I don't remember seeing the By Hybrids of late

Evening sightings at Bolton Moor Lane

37424BN 8
37398BN 37 Didn't know it had been painted, doesn't that only leave 37395 now, out of that batch at BN With 37394,6,97,98,99 all done.

Also 66901,2 were both doing 501s in opposite directions

With 69169BN On late 582s

(27/07/2012 19:52)M60lad Wrote: [ -> ]Not to sure whether this has been reported but apparently 154 Bury-NMGH service has now transferred to Queens Road Depot who have apparently got enough spare vehicles to cover if one of the Hybrids brakes down

That might explain the additional journeys introduced this week (7.11am Prestwich-Bury, 6.30pm Bury-Prestwich), cut down on the dead running time.

Some misallocations today included:
31924 - 37.
31934 - 598.
31948 - 181/2.
31952 - 83.
40344 - 8.

There was also some form of B7RLE Eclipse 2 on the 8 too. Also, has something happened to Queens Road's B6s? I didn't see any of them today I don't think! :P

(28/07/2012 12:57)66905 Wrote: [ -> ]Damien, are you sure 69169 was on 582's because it took me to work on the 501 at 22:17. :-)


69169 by 66905, on Flickr

I meant 69159 John type o

Another missallocation

4000BN Dart on 512 my lord this is one hell of an uncomfortable dart.

Bury was the usual citaro And Bendi capital

60273 510
60234 472
12004 135
60248 94
37392 471
49121 513
49122 512
37409 8
37397 37