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Post by holland1987 on Mar 25, 2011 0:12:40 GMT 1
Does anyone know the location of ex Coastliner buses.
I know the following.
Volvo Olympian Alexander Royale
L8-9YCL Geldard's
P426-29UUG Ensignbus
Leyland Olympian NC
K2-7YCL Centrebus
Volvo B10BLE
YD02UMX Transdev York
Can anyone tell me where other buses are including other Royales, old ECW Olympians, Merc mini's, Tigers, B10B's etc
Would be very very very grateful.
Thanks.
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Post by kendall17 on Mar 25, 2011 0:44:26 GMT 1
All the W--- CWX Olympians are with First.
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Post by Jamie on Mar 25, 2011 0:46:21 GMT 1
All the W--- CWX Olympians are with First. Indeed, all allocated to Great Yarmouth depot. Not forget there are the odd ones of the M reg batch with First Glasgow IIRC. |
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Post by kendall17 on Mar 25, 2011 1:04:04 GMT 1
Ahh the M--- UYG batch? The ones with the Royale badge thingy on the front?
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Post by Burnside on Mar 25, 2011 8:01:20 GMT 1
B521UWW still at Keighley
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Post by holland1987 on Mar 25, 2011 12:32:55 GMT 1
C479YWY is as i know parked at HCT from Shamrock buses.
What about all the old Beaver's, Tigers etc
The Tigers went to EYMS but moved on where ?
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Post by Jamie on Mar 25, 2011 12:44:51 GMT 1
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Post by holland1987 on Mar 25, 2011 13:05:31 GMT 1
They must have some very high mileage on them.
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Post by timelesstable on Mar 25, 2011 14:34:09 GMT 1
They must have some very high mileage on them. True but I would rather have a high mileage bus which had been operated over the Coastliner Terrain rather than one of a simular age which operated day in day out on stop start heavy urban traffic up and down the hills for 15-16 hours each day. |
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Post by 576 Gemini 2 on Mar 25, 2011 17:21:58 GMT 1
M922,923 and 925 UYG are First. M924 UYG was scrapped after catching fire when it was with Keighley and District
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Post by Burnside on Mar 25, 2011 22:35:08 GMT 1
They must have some very high mileage on them. I'm sure i read somewhere that they accumulated 100,000 miles a year and were replaced after 5 years. |
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Post by timelesstable on Mar 26, 2011 8:23:54 GMT 1
They must have some very high mileage on them. I'm sure i read somewhere that they accumulated 100,000 miles a year and were replaced after 5 years. 2,000 miles per week or 300 miles per day, high I agree but a high percentage in top gear. Contrast that to a bus doing half the mileage on stop start heavy Urban traffic in the lower gears, it's engine revolution would be greater. |
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Post by holland1987 on Mar 27, 2011 17:18:47 GMT 1
M922,923 and 925 UYG are First. M924 UYG was scrapped after catching fire when it was with Keighley and District M924UYG was intended for a rebody by Alexander. Shame it never happened as it may of been an ALX400 body. |
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Post by stevieinselby on Mar 27, 2011 20:35:24 GMT 1
They must have some very high mileage on them. I'm sure i read somewhere that they accumulated 100,000 miles a year and were replaced after 5 years. Coastliner have a policy of replacing their fleet with new buses about every 5 or 6 years, and cascading the old ones to other divisions of the group (hence the batch of Olympians in Keighley with "YCL" plates). This means that the premium long-distance route can retain top-notch vehicles, and other divisions get good quality buses without the expense of buying brand-new. I'd say 100k miles in a year sounds plausible - a typical routecard is three return trips between Leeds and Scarborough, which comes to about 400 miles in a day. |
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Post by timelesstable on Mar 27, 2011 21:08:43 GMT 1
I'm sure i read somewhere that they accumulated 100,000 miles a year and were replaced after 5 years. Coastliner have a policy of replacing their fleet with new buses about every 5 or 6 years, and cascading the old ones to other divisions of the group (hence the batch of Olympians in Keighley with "YCL" plates). This means that the premium long-distance route can retain top-notch vehicles, and other divisions get good quality buses without the expense of buying brand-new. I'd say 100k miles in a year sounds plausible - a typical routecard is three return trips between Leeds and Scarborough, which comes to about 400 miles in a day. Does the daily 400 miles require a re-fuelling stop or do the YC Geminis have extra large fuel tanks? |
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Post by holland1987 on Mar 27, 2011 23:57:13 GMT 1
Malton depot has a petrol pump i believe.
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Post by Jamie on Mar 28, 2011 1:00:24 GMT 1
Coastliner have a policy of replacing their fleet with new buses about every 5 or 6 years, and cascading the old ones to other divisions of the group (hence the batch of Olympians in Keighley with "YCL" plates). This means that the premium long-distance route can retain top-notch vehicles, and other divisions get good quality buses without the expense of buying brand-new. I'd say 100k miles in a year sounds plausible - a typical routecard is three return trips between Leeds and Scarborough, which comes to about 400 miles in a day. Does the daily 400 miles require a re-fuelling stop or do the YC Geminis have extra large fuel tanks? I suspect given most of the journeys are made in high gears in the gearbox surely this then goes on a Eco Drive almost similar to cars? I remember there was a discussion when the First Eastern Counties Gemini's turned up if they would cop out on the road but they have the same size takes as a normal B9TL and even the B7TL Gemini's drafted from Norwich cope fine and they do similar distances per day. |
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Post by Jack on Mar 28, 2011 9:19:32 GMT 1
Does the daily 400 miles require a re-fuelling stop or do the YC Geminis have extra large fuel tanks? I think that was a shortfall with the Presidents as their fuel tanks weren't large enough therefore having to be refueled during the day. |
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Post by holland1987 on Mar 28, 2011 11:03:03 GMT 1
Where are the Tigers G431-5MWU the ones that sounded like Leyland lynx's.
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Post by Burnside on Mar 28, 2011 12:58:19 GMT 1
At least one was with EYMS until recently.
They sounded like Lynxes due to having Cummins L10 engines as Leyland were no longer making the TL11.
Always wondered why L10 engined Lynxes didn't sound like L10 engined Olympians?
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Post by holland1987 on Mar 28, 2011 16:55:01 GMT 1
Perhaps a different engine size ?
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Post by timelesstable on Mar 28, 2011 18:44:58 GMT 1
At least one was with EYMS until recently. They sounded like Lynxes due to having Cummins L10 engines as Leyland were no longer making the TL11. Always wondered why L10 engined Lynxes didn't sound like L10 engined Olympians? Vertical version in the Olympians against a Horizontial in the Lynx......... |
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Post by PinkHours on Mar 29, 2011 0:04:06 GMT 1
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Post by holland1987 on Mar 29, 2011 0:35:10 GMT 1
Im sure some went to H&D in 1996 and were painted in blue ?
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Post by Burnside on Mar 29, 2011 6:50:14 GMT 1
You might be right there. The predecessor to today's X52 (Harrogate - Ilkley) was branded Ebor Link or Ebor Express or something using dark blue Plaxton Paramounts
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