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RE: Electric vehicles - Storx - 21 Oct 2020
(19 Oct 2020, 10:16 pm)Drifter60 Do we know/have any idea where the StreetLites will go? Aren’t these slightly smaller than the others?
There's 17 Omnicities at Chester Le Street and Riverside then the 5 Mercedes on the Citylink 57.
Then you've got the 9 new electrics plus the 13 ex Consett B9TL's which are currently on the 26/27 so there's 22 buses spare there.
Wouldn't be surprised to see something like:
B9TL's - 93 / 94 still maybe + 25/13 (PVR 13)
Streetlites - 57 (PVR 5)
Displaced Versa's and the other 3 Streetlites replace the remaining spare Omnicities between the 2 depots which are often on the 28 and Quaylinks.
Then the next batch of the electrics on the 58 with that batch of Versas seeing off the remaining Citaros at Riverside.
RE: Electric vehicles - busmanT - 21 Oct 2020
(21 Oct 2020, 9:09 am)Storx There's 17 Omnicities at Chester Le Street and Riverside then the 5 Mercedes on the Citylink 57.Plus a very large number of older buses that should have been withdrawn but have been kept to run the school extras (56 or 60 buses used as extras I recall being mentioned)
Then you've got the 9 new electrics plus the 13 ex Consett B9TL's which are currently on the 26/27 so there's 22 buses spare there.
Wouldn't be surprised to see something like:
B9TL's - 93 / 94 still maybe + 25/13 (PVR 13)
Streetlites - 57 (PVR 5)
Displaced Versa's and the other 3 Streetlites replace the remaining spare Omnicities between the 2 depots which are often on the 28 and Quaylinks.
Then the next batch of the electrics on the 58 with that batch of Versas seeing off the remaining Citaros at Riverside.
RE: Electric vehicles - Michael - 25 Oct 2020
(21 Oct 2020, 5:42 pm)busmanT Plus a very large number of older buses that should have been withdrawn but have been kept to run the school extras (56 or 60 buses used as extras I recall being mentioned)
Wonder when they'll finally withdraw all the buses not needed.... be interesting to see if anyone has the money to buy them.
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Can anyone confirm what fleet numbers the Electric buses will be, since they should start to arrive in the next couple of weeks
RE: Electric vehicles - deanmachine - 25 Oct 2020
(25 Oct 2020, 6:00 pm)Michael Wonder when they'll finally withdraw all the buses not needed.... be interesting to see if anyone has the money to buy them.
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Can anyone confirm what fleet numbers the Electric buses will be, since they should start to arrive in the next couple of weeks
Don't see why they wouldn't be the 8xxx series, unless they're going to do an electric series, which would be short sighted imo.
RE: Electric vehicles - ne14ne1 - 26 Oct 2020
Note the silver grab handles on the doors, and the seemingly brown interior. That and the external base livery doesn't exactly scream GNE. Was it confirmed these are GNE's?
![[Image: 50450665328_d741d5c4e0_h.jpg]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50450665328_d741d5c4e0_h.jpg)
Go North East by West Yorkshire Bus Photo's, on Flickr![[Image: 50451362926_870870d2e8_h.jpg]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/50451362926_870870d2e8_h.jpg)
Go North East by West Yorkshire Bus Photo's, on Flickr
RE: Electric vehicles - JP6004 - 26 Oct 2020
(26 Oct 2020, 8:54 am)ne14ne1 Note the silver grab handles on the doors, and the seemingly brown interior. That and the external base livery doesn't exactly scream GNE. Was it confirmed these are GNE's?Yes
RE: Electric vehicles - ne14ne1 - 26 Oct 2020
(26 Oct 2020, 8:57 am)JP6004 Yes
RE: Electric vehicles - JP6004 - 26 Oct 2020
(26 Oct 2020, 9:18 am)ne14ne1Yes, its......different
RE: Electric vehicles - streetdeckfan - 26 Oct 2020
(26 Oct 2020, 8:54 am)ne14ne1 Note the silver grab handles on the doors, and the seemingly brown interior. That and the external base livery doesn't exactly scream GNE. Was it confirmed these are GNE's?
Don't forget what looks like green flooring!
Maybe they're going for the tree aesthetic
RE: Electric vehicles - JP6004 - 26 Oct 2020
(26 Oct 2020, 9:23 am)streetdeckfan Don't forget what looks like green flooring!Yes they seem to branching out
Maybe they're going for the tree aesthetic
RE: Electric vehicles - ne14ne1 - 26 Oct 2020
(26 Oct 2020, 9:31 am)JP6004 Yes they seem to branching out
Shame they didn't take a leaf out of their corporate design guide book ...if they even have one.
RE: Electric vehicles - JP6004 - 26 Oct 2020
(26 Oct 2020, 10:43 am)ne14ne1 Shame they didn't take a leaf out of their corporate design guide book ...if they even have one.Think your barking up the wrong tree
RE: Electric vehicles - mb134 - 26 Oct 2020
(26 Oct 2020, 9:23 am)streetdeckfan Don't forget what looks like green flooring!
Maybe they're going for the tree aesthetic
Green flooring sounds more like grass than tree to me.
RE: Electric vehicles - V514DFT - 26 Oct 2020
Thats errrm,bland
RE: Electric vehicles - omnicity4659 - 26 Oct 2020
Interesting to see what looks like a blue version of the new moquette design?
RE: Electric vehicles - Michael - 26 Oct 2020
(26 Oct 2020, 7:43 pm)V514DFT Thats errrm,bland
Aye it is atm because it hasn't been branded.
RE: Electric vehicles - ne14ne1 - 28 Oct 2020
Blue and green seats:
![[Image: ElbqLlnW0AEe9jW?format=jpg&name=small]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ElbqLlnW0AEe9jW?format=jpg&name=small)
https://twitter.com/martijngne/status/1321501031398858752?s=21
RE: Electric vehicles - Ambassador - 28 Oct 2020
I’m intrigued to see how this goes. Like the rest of the world, environment and emissions seem to have dropped right down the priority and view of the public and indeed government.
It has the risk of being another government funded folly but we shall see
RE: Electric vehicles - Storx - 28 Oct 2020
(28 Oct 2020, 8:44 pm)ne14ne1 Blue and green seats:
https://twitter.com/martijngne/status/1321501031398858752?s=21
I understand these are just new but surely the blue seats but with red head rests would look better on the refurbs of older stock rather than the contrasting red. A bit off topic but still.
RE: Electric vehicles - JP6004 - 29 Oct 2020
(28 Oct 2020, 8:44 pm)ne14ne1 Blue and green seats:IMO, they look horrible. So just as new style liveries and interior start to be rolled out, they mix it all up again just because they are electric. Definately not a fan so far.....apart from the cant rail lights
https://twitter.com/martijngne/status/1321501031398858752?s=21