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Recent content by AB93

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    Heating in electric buses

    Plenty of people on here saying the York ones (same type as Leicester) “don’t have heating” too - but they were toasty warm when I used them. Barring one bus that clearly had a fault.
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    Reductions to services prior to an eventual withdrawal

    I think you've partly answered your own question!
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    Stagecoach South & South East

    And the old branding still clearly visible on the cab door!
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    Provision of saloon heating in electric buses

    I travelled on First York Kite 63650 earlier which was toasty warm with air clearly blowing out of the vents. Evidentially, they do have built in heating. All the double decks I went on bar one had working heating too.
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    London Buses Discussion

    TGM London operations (and Byfleet ops in Surrey) sold to National Express in 2005 as part of Travel London, including the then 465 contract. That then became Abellio on sale in 2009. TGM itself was sold to Arriva in 2007 (December) as mentioned above. Slightly confusingly, the 465 contract was...
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    TfGM Bus franchising

    Indeed - note all the recently revised Go-Ahead company logos incorporating the Go-Ahead name much more prominently.
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    Brighton & Hove / Metrobus Discussion

    The last remaining Scania OmniDekka has been running out of Copthorne for about a week or so now.
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    Cameras instead of mirrors

    That assumes it's only one bus losing its mirror - if it goes into the back of the bus in front, you've then got two buses out of service and often a £££'s repair bill for a new rear window.
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    Xmas (Winter Festival) timetables 2023

    Southern Vectis have their Christmas arrangements, including the Christmas Day timetables, published in full in their 1st October timetable booklet.
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    Route that goes round loop twice - is this unique?

    Issues with the old Newport-bound 'Nettlecombe Lane' stop basically being in someone's front garden, and lack of suitable alternative location to re-locate it.
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    TFL Cross border services and capacity

    The 203 has a natural flow to Staines from Stanwell as the nearest town. And taking people from Staines to/from Hatton Cross etc. In contrast the 216 gets to Ashford where it is joined by the 117 and 290, both of which continue to Staines via much more built up areas than the 216's run down the...
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    Go South Coast

    Yes they do - and the bridge by Swindon station has only 10'0" clearance.
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Usually around Easter although one was on the loose the other day.
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    First West of England (Bristol, Bath & The West)

    Not during the winter.

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