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Post by stephen01 on Jan 1, 2024 0:39:03 GMT 1
Haapy New Year. You know the drill.
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Post by joseph on Jan 1, 2024 2:31:53 GMT 1
If anybody spots anything today, apart from the 87, call the police first before reporting on here cos chances are it's been nicked lol
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Post by stephen01 on Jan 1, 2024 11:53:51 GMT 1
If anybody spots anything today, apart from the 87, call the police first before reporting on here cos chances are it's been nicked lol Well Yorkshire Buses are out on Rail Replacement as they've posted about on FB with LK07 AZZ been used so far. |
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Post by stantheman on Jan 2, 2024 23:03:31 GMT 1
AY 1711 noted failed and being hooked up for tow at Newton Bar at around 9.00pm this evening. It hasn’t tracked on Bus Times since June?
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Post by Penfold on Jan 3, 2024 17:40:59 GMT 1
AY 1711 noted failed and being hooked up for tow at Newton Bar at around 9.00pm this evening. It hasn’t tracked on Bus Times since June? 1711 been parked at the back of Belle Isle for the past several months with battery and engine problems. That is unless its moved since last Saturday 30th. Penfold |
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Post by Penfold on Jan 3, 2024 19:44:06 GMT 1
One of Yorkshire Buses 'purple' Scanias seen on the back of a Ripleys wrecker just coming out of Wood Lane Rothwell around midday today.
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Post by stephen01 on Jan 3, 2024 20:48:44 GMT 1
One of Yorkshire Buses 'purple' Scanias seen on the back of a Ripleys wrecker just coming out of Wood Lane Rothwell around midday today. Penfold from what i saw on FB on one of their enthusiast pages it sounds like YN06 WMM. |
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Post by stantheman on Jan 3, 2024 21:12:25 GMT 1
AY 1711 noted failed and being hooked up for tow at Newton Bar at around 9.00pm this evening. It hasn’t tracked on Bus Times since June? 1711 been parked at the back of Belle Isle for the past several months with battery and engine problems. That is unless it’s moved since last Saturday 30th. Penfold Ha, I must need to go to Specsavers. It was definitely FK-something, the last three reg letters. Be interesting to hear if it’s still at the back of Belle Isle. 1022 was tracking on the 110 at around that time - wonder if that machine was on a different vehicle? |
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Post by Penfold on Jan 4, 2024 15:07:58 GMT 1
1711 been parked at the back of Belle Isle for the past several months with battery and engine problems. That is unless it’s moved since last Saturday 30th. Penfold Ha, I must need to go to Specsavers. It was definitely FK-something, the last three reg letters. Be interesting to hear if it’s still at the back of Belle Isle. 1022 was tracking on the 110 at around that time - wonder if that machine was on a different vehicle? 1711 is now showing as 'away' on the allocations sheets this morning and not where it had been parked. A trip to Specsavers probably not be needed now !. Im reliably told that an E200 did a trip on the 110s around teatime too. Penfold |
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Post by stantheman on Jan 4, 2024 18:35:20 GMT 1
AY 1423 CX58 EWF on 444
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Post by stantheman on Jan 5, 2024 12:01:12 GMT 1
Ha, I must need to go to Specsavers. It was definitely FK-something, the last three reg letters. Be interesting to hear if it’s still at the back of Belle Isle. 1022 was tracking on the 110 at around that time - wonder if that machine was on a different vehicle? 1711 is now showing as 'away' on the allocations sheets this morning and not where it had been parked. A trip to Specsavers probably not be needed now !. Im reliably told that an E200 did a trip on the 110s around teatime too. Penfold I’m glad I’m not going mad. It was accompanied by a tow truck and a couple of cars. Wonder if it was on some kind of test run, but 9.00pm would be an odd time to do that. |
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Post by arriva1606 on Jan 5, 2024 15:18:39 GMT 1
i think I'm losing my mind, or if not then we've had a bit of everything in Leeds today
I've just seen a Bradford streetdeck on the 50 and 2 Leeds streetdecks on the X6, 37500 looked like it wanted to be a hybrid on the 7's and a ex-York Halifax B7RLE was on the 55
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Post by Penfold on Jan 5, 2024 18:22:12 GMT 1
1711 is now showing as 'away' on the allocations sheets this morning and not where it had been parked. A trip to Specsavers probably not be needed now !. Im reliably told that an E200 did a trip on the 110s around teatime too. Penfold I’m glad I’m not going mad. It was accompanied by a tow truck and a couple of cars. Wonder if it was on some kind of test run, but 9.00pm would be an odd time to do that. AY 1711 has I believe been taken to Volvo at Birstall for rectification work. Penfold |
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Post by livkait1621 on Jan 5, 2024 23:09:34 GMT 1
i think I'm losing my mind, or if not then we've had a bit of everything in Leeds today I've just seen a Bradford streetdeck on the 50 and 2 Leeds streetdecks on the X6, 37500 looked like it wanted to be a hybrid on the 7's and a ex-York Halifax B7RLE was on the 55 Yeah the 2 Bradford street decks are on loan to bramely but the 2 bramley streetdecks are meant to be staying in Bradford. I’m pretty sure 37500 is on the 7s cos Hunslet are getting rid of their hybrids due to the replacement battery’s being too expensive (I think). Unsure why Hunslet have a York single deck tho. |
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Post by joseph on Jan 6, 2024 6:31:38 GMT 1
i think I'm losing my mind, or if not then we've had a bit of everything in Leeds today I've just seen a Bradford streetdeck on the 50 and 2 Leeds streetdecks on the X6, 37500 looked like it wanted to be a hybrid on the 7's and a ex-York Halifax B7RLE was on the 55 Yeah the 2 Bradford street decks are on loan to bramely but the 2 bramley streetdecks are meant to be staying in Bradford. I’m pretty sure 37500 is on the 7s cos Hunslet are getting rid of their hybrids due to the replacement battery’s being too expensive (I think). Unsure why Hunslet have a York single deck tho. But the thing is, why didn't Bradford send the 2 ex Leeds buses to Bramley, you might as well not bother with all this farce with local brands. Some people seeing a green bus coming along Broadway might not think to look at the destination until it's too late as they're expecting the usual blue one, same too in Leeds with people not expecting a blue bus until they suddenly see the destination, especially on a route with no other services. |
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Post by kendall17 on Jan 6, 2024 7:41:00 GMT 1
I saw this "discussion" as to why Bradford didn't send the Leeds liveried buses on the First facebook page and there's a number of plausible reasons.
1st is that they were both out in service when the call came from Bramley (1 was in service all day) so that means swapping them out and then taking to Bramley - more hassle than it's worth.
2nd is maintenance schedules, Bradford may have them earmarked for a service etc in the coming days so chose to send 2 vehicles that aren't due anything anytime soon.
3rd is nobody cares what colour the bus is in Leeds, as long as it turns up with their destination on the screen. Sure the LeedsCity brand looks good, but there's so many other liveries/adverts/heritage in service, 2 vehicles out of nigh on 400 aren't going to make a blind bit of difference.
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Post by livkait1621 on Jan 6, 2024 8:54:32 GMT 1
Yeah the 2 Bradford street decks are on loan to bramely but the 2 bramley streetdecks are meant to be staying in Bradford. I’m pretty sure 37500 is on the 7s cos Hunslet are getting rid of their hybrids due to the replacement battery’s being too expensive (I think). Unsure why Hunslet have a York single deck tho. But the thing is, why didn't Bradford send the 2 ex Leeds buses to Bramley, you might as well not bother with all this farce with local brands. Some people seeing a green bus coming along Broadway might not think to look at the destination until it's too late as they're expecting the usual blue one, same too in Leeds with people not expecting a blue bus until they suddenly see the destination, especially on a route with no other services. Bradford do have a green bus, it’s the macmillan support bus. But I’d assume that the Bramley ones weren’t sent back cos they were either waiting to be serviced or were due to replace a Bradford bus that was coming out of service |
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Post by pricel on Jan 6, 2024 17:37:30 GMT 1
I saw this "discussion" as to why Bradford didn't send the Leeds liveried buses on the First facebook page and there's a number of plausible reasons. 1st is that they were both out in service when the call came from Bramley (1 was in service all day) so that means swapping them out and then taking to Bramley - more hassle than it's worth. 2nd is maintenance schedules, Bradford may have them earmarked for a service etc in the coming days so chose to send 2 vehicles that aren't due anything anytime soon. 3rd is nobody cares what colour the bus is in Leeds, as long as it turns up with their destination on the screen. Sure the LeedsCity brand looks good, but there's so many other liveries/adverts/heritage in service, 2 vehicles out of nigh on 400 aren't going to make a blind bit of difference. Instead of sending Bradford Buses, Halifax would have been perfect. Plenty of buses rotting away in the back of Elmwood not seeing service because it's the Christmas holidays. Would be useful as it would mean that Bradford wouldn't be down 2 public service vehicles but neither would Halifax. |
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Post by stephen01 on Jan 6, 2024 18:02:34 GMT 1
I saw this "discussion" as to why Bradford didn't send the Leeds liveried buses on the First facebook page and there's a number of plausible reasons. 1st is that they were both out in service when the call came from Bramley (1 was in service all day) so that means swapping them out and then taking to Bramley - more hassle than it's worth. 2nd is maintenance schedules, Bradford may have them earmarked for a service etc in the coming days so chose to send 2 vehicles that aren't due anything anytime soon. 3rd is nobody cares what colour the bus is in Leeds, as long as it turns up with their destination on the screen. Sure the LeedsCity brand looks good, but there's so many other liveries/adverts/heritage in service, 2 vehicles out of nigh on 400 aren't going to make a blind bit of difference. Instead of sending Bradford Buses, Halifax would have been perfect. Plenty of buses rotting away in the back of Elmwood not seeing service because it's the Christmas holidays. Would be useful as it would mean that Bradford wouldn't be down 2 public service vehicles but neither would Halifax. it would be but it's easy & quicker for Bradford, Bramley & HP to all support each other fleet wise as they are all in fairly close proximity to each other. Halifax & Huddersfield tend to send vehicles after easter normally but that might change slightly from Huddersfield point of view given they no longer have the uni shuttle. |
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Post by burtonsa02 on Jan 11, 2024 19:12:42 GMT 1
Saw an Arriva Interurban Gemini 2 (One of Selbys 1529, 1543 or 1545) arriving into Wakefield on the 189
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Post by jst on Jan 11, 2024 20:22:19 GMT 1
Saw an Arriva Interurban Gemini 2 (One of Selbys 1529, 1543 or 1545) arriving into Wakefield on the 189 Probably the same one as was on the 165 yesterday morning! I didn't get the number in the dark but was tracking as 1953. |
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Post by burtonsa02 on Jan 11, 2024 20:24:35 GMT 1
Saw an Arriva Interurban Gemini 2 (One of Selbys 1529, 1543 or 1545) arriving into Wakefield on the 189 Probably the same one as was on the 165 yesterday morning! I didn't get the number in the dark but was tracking as 1953. Yep too dark and I just saw it in the corner of my eye! Update: I believe its 1543, just saw it on the 189 at Wakefield Bus Station 13/01 |
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Post by WYBS on Jan 12, 2024 21:14:19 GMT 1
First York Low Height Streetdeck 35932 has been working out of Hunslet today.
It is heading down to First Potteries at some point.
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Post by burtonsa02 on Jan 14, 2024 22:07:51 GMT 1
Saw PJ05 ZVZ making an interesting appearance on the D1 yesterday
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Post by adam on Jan 15, 2024 12:59:41 GMT 1
AY 1013 spotted broken down at Swillington coming from Great Preston before it turns onto Aberford Rd on 0701 Garforth to Wakefield 175, spotted at 1155 so had been there for 4.5 hours
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