I'm starting to count down these days as if i am off for a fortnight now. Finish at 130 today and it's a beautiful morning. You can't beat cycling at 4am. We have a chap at our depot who does iron man competitions and he goes out cycling at 2am and covers about 100 miles at a time. I doubt i will ever take it that seriously. Got some top brass coming to look round the depot today to it's looking clean and tidy, or should i say tidier than usual! I'm just sat in stockport on my last of two 330s before breaktime on 19002 which is a great bus. Recently back from the paintshop too looking and sounding like brand new. I'm not sure what they do with them but it works. It's spotless inside too. This picture was taken on my first trip. Not sure how it will turn out on a bigger screen but as always the sunrise on a nice day is always good to see. Well unless i see anything out on my bike thats me for 3 days hope you all have a good weekend. I will and hope i will remember it too. Lol.
Nice picture ! In my bus yesterday 333 summat on the 347, it had done 641xxx kilometres,thats a long way! I remember asking when I was at Hyde Rd what happened to old buses , and was told the engines are usually used in tugs ect , where they will chug along forever!
ReplyDeleteI am sure I saw 22138 at Ashton this week but it could have been something else
ReplyDeleteis the remains of 18373 still at Hyde Rd I have it on my weekly news fleet list but not on the stagecoach one
The take over of Arriva by Deutsche Bahn has taken place today.
ReplyDeleteis that Arriva as a whole in the uk
ReplyDeleteSure is.
ReplyDeleteThanks Chris. Hope your enjoying your new job at Ashton. 22138 should be at Princess i think. Nice to see a few none favorite buses go elsewhere. 22134 i saw on the X5. We only ran it on the 347 coz it doesnt like hills or fast roads lol
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ReplyDeletedoes that mean 22134 is at Princess also not seen 22105/17/18/40 at Ashton for ages
No the X5 is run by Stockport depot. 22134 22105 i have seen at stockport dont know about the rest. Bus allocations wont settle until the 5th when hybrids go into action and spare buses are moved about so i wouldnt worry about it for now
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ReplyDeletejust got a new 350 time table and all the peak changes are 2mins later from uppermill towards Ashton and 4 mins later from Hey farm
I'm sure you said once that 19002 was the slowest Enviro at Ashton (confirmed by myself happening to catch it once). Is she a bit faster now?
ReplyDelete22143 is another that recently moved to Ashton?
19002 seems to gave had the full works. Drives well. Looks good and is spotless inside. Im sure you will see it at somepoint
ReplyDelete22143 has been there ages
ReplyDeleteFirst Ashton have got rid of all the volvo double decks and now got arrows 31938 to 45 along with 31925/27/33/37/49 which have been there ages