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(28/09/2012 15:53)mic Wrote:  

(28/09/2012 11:34)Damien Wrote:  A Bolton contact tells me that there B9s are not going anywhere for a while :-)

is 37373 in new livery yet

Yep. Just 37402 to be done if not already then they are all done at BN.

[Scania3379man]

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why wigan need a B10Bs replace excels and darts? we dont need a B10Bs it is very old bus, let say 15 years old or more. pffft no thank you...we need stay excel until wigan sold that's it. think twice to depot or head office in oldham.

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Martyn

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well Oldham have done it again saw a 409 branded bus on 184 service today when they have loads of buses there

[Damien]

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(29/09/2012 08:11)mic Wrote:  well Oldham have done it again saw a 409 branded bus on 184 service today when they have loads of buses there

Well that pointless, and stupid is the allocator a bit think or what

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(29/09/2012 09:38)Damien Wrote:  

(29/09/2012 08:11)mic Wrote:  well Oldham have done it again saw a 409 branded bus on 184 service today when they have loads of buses there

Well that pointless, and stupid is the allocator a bit think or what

seems like it

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2 more B9s at pioneer are 37453/65

[gilesbus1]

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Sorry if this has already been mentioned but trailing around Bolton yesterday presumably being run in on a 519 was 36280 BD12TCJ a Volvo B9TL with Wright Eclipse Gemini II bodywork so looks like the report of some of these coming here is correct.

Also MX06 VOD B7RLE looks to have bene repainted and I also suspect that 36276 was seen being run in as well on a 570 but cannot confirm as it was some distance away.

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(29/09/2012 08:11)mic Wrote:  well Oldham have done it again saw a 409 branded bus on 184 service today when they have loads of buses there

Spotted that too in Oldham town centre around dinnertime today. Believe it was 33738 and was on its way to Huddersfield when I saw it.

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(29/09/2012 13:05)gilesbus1 Wrote:  Sorry if this has already been mentioned but trailing around Bolton yesterday presumably being run in on a 519 was 36280 BD12TCJ a Volvo B9TL with Wright Eclipse Gemini II bodywork so looks like the report of some of these coming here is correct.

Also MX06 VOD B7RLE looks to have bene repainted and I also suspect that 36276 was seen being run in as well on a 570 but cannot confirm as it was some distance away.

think that is 36279 76 is in Yorkshire

[gilesbus1]

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What is the reason incidentally for these two odd balls, would it now have made sense to move these to another fleet and order two more Enviro Enviro400's instead for later delivery, considering plenty must be still parked up as only one was seen on depot at Bolton yesterday everything else was B9TL. In terms of spares all this seems a nightmare. Obviously the two B9TL's have been put at Bolton because there are common body penels with the BD11 registered B7RLE's, but when it all adds up together would it now be simpler to have made Oldham entirely Enviro Enviro400 and cascaded the Volvo's out to Bolton to add to teh ones already there or other depots?

Incidentally all the Dart SLF's there had been piled into the withdrawal section of the yard, in the elcove so all look withdrawn.

As for Wigan that all remaisn unclear as to what will happen there. However I am suprised the Volvo B9TL's havcen't been moved out to Manchester along with the total services 32 and X34 and evening 33's and the staff who operate them regularly.

Gilesbus1