(22/08/2012 18:14)trixmax2000 Wrote:  

(22/08/2012 11:20)27701 Wrote:  

(21/08/2012 22:52)trixmax2000 Wrote:  2947 was in the workshops all day

Is 2947 now Runcorn-based?

No my mistake it was 2948 in the workshops

(22/08/2012 16:55)mathias Wrote:  

(21/08/2012 22:52)trixmax2000 Wrote:  3137 as now been fitted with a transponder so should send most the time on the X30 when not covering for one of the x1 branded ones

Aren't transponders used to encourage traffic lights to turn green quicker?

I remember when they first started using them in London on Leyland Titans in the late 1980s as congestion was terrible back then (then again it's still terrible now)

(22/08/2012 18:17)trixmax2000 Wrote:  These are fitted to buses working into Chester to lower traffic bollards in Chester

(25/08/2012 18:53)27701 Wrote:  I had Pulsar 2 MX09 EKY (2940) on the X30, between Warrington and Chester, today. I have to say that this bus is an absolute shed! Its engine sounds odd, it rattles like hell at times and it vibrates and makes a loud humming noise - similar to Bootle-based CX58 FZK (2928), but that shed does does it after gear one... - when travelling at high speeds.

Interestingly, passenger numbers didn't justify the need of a Pulsar 2 on my journey, but, needless to say, I've used this service many times in the past when numbers have justified the allocated Pulsar 2. The 79C is different because if a Cadet is full, there's only usually a 15-minute wait for the next bus, whereas if a full X30 refuses to pick-up passengers along the route, in most places, there would be no next bus for about an hour. I think that that's the point that trimax2000 is trying/has tried to make.