Buses around Plymouth : Buses Outside Plymouth Week

Monday, 15 February 2016

Buses Outside Plymouth Week - Bristol

Buses Outside Plymouth Week

Bristol

Blog post from: http://www.swhite.org.uk/steve/jan.htm

Good evening everyone

Here is the first of seven blog posts detailing the bus scene around the UK at the moment.

First of these is is Bristol, which is not too far from Plymouth (well, at least compared to what's coming up later in the week):

The first Virtual Electric Enviro 39191 was shown to the public recently. Its built to London spec so seats 64 (39up 25down) its dual doored so the wheelchair ramp is on the middle door so i guess this will be the only time when the middle door is in use. There are 2 charging plates to recharge the batteries 1 at UWE the other at Hengrove Depot a 7 minute charge during layover should give enough power for 20 minutes of driving on battery power. The bus uses GPS to switch the engine off when it enters certain parts of the city to reduce emissions so its Electric around town and on Gloucester Road its due to enter service latter next month.

39191	SN65ZGS	HE	ADL	E40H VE	Ar	H39/25D
39192		HE	ADL	E40H VE	Ar	H39/25D

Virtual Electric 39191.

Another 3 vehicles have arrived on load at Bath they are Former Berkshire Scania,s 65724-6 which have recently been on loan at Weymouth.

65724	LK55ABZ	BH	Sca	L94UB	Wt	B43F
65725	LK55ACF	BH	Sca	L94UB	Wt	B43F
65726	LK55ACJ	BH	Sca	L94UB	Wt	B43F

65724 currently on loan in Bath

The first of the ex Yorkshire B7s has arrived. With the following ex Bradford buses now in Bath.

30857	W712CWR	BH	Vo	B7TL 10.7M	Ar	H49/29F
30866	W721CWR	BH	Vo	B7TL 10.7M	Ar	H49/29F
30867	W722CWR	BH	Vo	B7TL 10.7M	Ar	H49/29F
30870	W726CWR	BH	Vo	B7TL 10.7M	Ar	H49/29F

30857 in Bath.

Allocation changes

32089/91 LH - MH

32095/8 MH - LH

32099 LH - HE

32277 Leicester - BH- now at LH

32335-8 LH - HE

32350/1 MH - LH

33508/50 HE - WM

41795 Trainer - u

42557 BH - Essex

42914/38 BH - First East of England

42968 LH - WS - Now BH

44915 BH - WM

53401 BH - WS

66301/45 MH - LH

66734 WM - BH

68570 Trainer - First South West @ Taunton

69437 BH - WS

69457/8 HE - WS

All of the non DDA vehicles listed last month came of the road most before the end of the year. Most will be scrapped but several B10B,s will be converted to Trainers 62198 has started conversion already.

Repaints

62198 converted to a trainer has now been repainted all over red. 66104 is in receiving attention and 66206 is in the paint shop it looks like these are also for the training fleet.

Some of the Orange fronted buses are now receiving route branding Enviro,s for the 1 and Gemini,s for 2.