6x ex-Lothian Buses Volvo B9TL on loan from Ensign Bus
6x ex-Lothian Buses Volvo B9TL on loan from Ensign Bus
Collection of Lothian B9TLs by Because Buses, on Flickr
Looks there’s about 6 of them at Saltmeadows on this photo
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So are they actually en route to ensign or are they GNE's?
Dan's Tweet seems to imply they're theirs.
https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/1374793030977388553
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(24 Mar 2021, 7:43 pm)streetdeckfan So are they actually en route to ensign or are they GNE's?Martijns response within the tweet to the same question, answers yes they are for GNE for additional capacity from 12th April.
Dan's Tweet seems to imply they're theirs.
https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/1374793030977388553
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(24 Mar 2021, 7:43 pm)streetdeckfan So are they actually en route to ensign or are they GNE's?Martijns response within the tweet to the same question, answers yes they are for GNE for additional capacity from 12th April.
Dan's Tweet seems to imply they're theirs.
https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/1374793030977388553
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(24 Mar 2021, 7:43 pm)streetdeckfan So are they actually en route to ensign or are they GNE's?
Dan's Tweet seems to imply they're theirs.
https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/1374793030977388553
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(24 Mar 2021, 7:43 pm)streetdeckfan So are they actually en route to ensign or are they GNE's?
Dan's Tweet seems to imply they're theirs.
https://twitter.com/Dan3942/status/1374793030977388553
Sent from my CPH1931 using Tapatalk
(25 Mar 2021, 8:02 pm)Dan Unlike the two which were pictured at Riverside last week, these six are on long-term loan from Ensign Bus Company (to whom Lothian Buses had sold them). They will aid extra vehicle requirements, following the disposal of buses to other parts of the Group, and extra vehicle requirements (i.e. shuttle buses to Nightingale Hospital, the conversion of bus 692 to become a COVID-19 mobile vaccination bus, etc).Will these be in public use or just on scholars and stuff
These are:
- 9056 (SN57 DFJ)
- 9057 (SN57 DFP)
- 9058 (SN57 DFU)
- 9059 (SN57 DFV)
- 9060 (SN57 DFX)
- 9061 (SN57 DFY)
All six are now at Saltmeadows Road, being prepared for service, ready for the increase in service levels from Saturday 10 April.
Go North East: 9060 / SN57DFX by Daniel Graham, on Flickr
Go North East: 9059 / SN57DFY by Daniel Graham, on Flickr
(25 Mar 2021, 8:02 pm)Dan Unlike the two which were pictured at Riverside last week, these six are on long-term loan from Ensign Bus Company (to whom Lothian Buses had sold them). They will aid extra vehicle requirements, following the disposal of buses to other parts of the Group, and extra vehicle requirements (i.e. shuttle buses to Nightingale Hospital, the conversion of bus 692 to become a COVID-19 mobile vaccination bus, etc).Will these be in public use or just on scholars and stuff
These are:
- 9056 (SN57 DFJ)
- 9057 (SN57 DFP)
- 9058 (SN57 DFU)
- 9059 (SN57 DFV)
- 9060 (SN57 DFX)
- 9061 (SN57 DFY)
All six are now at Saltmeadows Road, being prepared for service, ready for the increase in service levels from Saturday 10 April.
Go North East: 9060 / SN57DFX by Daniel Graham, on Flickr
Go North East: 9059 / SN57DFY by Daniel Graham, on Flickr
(01 Apr 2021, 10:35 pm)Big O Seems GNE have purchased the former B9TLs from Lothian; SN57 DFJ, DFA, DFU, DFV, DFX, DFY
Go North East has also taken into its fleet a number of vehicles on temporary loan, which, further to the vehicles above, will allow them to continue running 70+ extra vehicles on scholars/duplicate services to aid social distancing as a result of COVID-19, when service levels on the core commercial network resume, from 10 April. These are Scania CN94UB/Scania OmniCity 6513 (YP52 CTO) and Scania N94UB/East Lancs Esteem 6615 (YN06 JXZ) from the Metrobus fleet, allocated temporary fleet numbers 9054 and 9055 respectively, as well as former Lothian Buses Wright Eclipse Gemini bodied Volvo B9TLs SN57 DFJ/DFP/DFU/DFV/DFX/DFY from Ensign Bus Company, which have been numbered 9056 to 9061.
(01 Apr 2021, 10:35 pm)Big O Seems GNE have purchased the former B9TLs from Lothian; SN57 DFJ, DFA, DFU, DFV, DFX, DFY
Go North East has also taken into its fleet a number of vehicles on temporary loan, which, further to the vehicles above, will allow them to continue running 70+ extra vehicles on scholars/duplicate services to aid social distancing as a result of COVID-19, when service levels on the core commercial network resume, from 10 April. These are Scania CN94UB/Scania OmniCity 6513 (YP52 CTO) and Scania N94UB/East Lancs Esteem 6615 (YN06 JXZ) from the Metrobus fleet, allocated temporary fleet numbers 9054 and 9055 respectively, as well as former Lothian Buses Wright Eclipse Gemini bodied Volvo B9TLs SN57 DFJ/DFP/DFU/DFV/DFX/DFY from Ensign Bus Company, which have been numbered 9056 to 9061.
(02 Apr 2021, 12:37 am)reymyster9 These are loans, no? The Enthusiast Area says they are.
(02 Apr 2021, 12:37 am)reymyster9 These are loans, no? The Enthusiast Area says they are.
(10 Nov 2021, 5:20 pm)Keeiajs Didn't that happen weeks if not months ago?You're thinking of the Voyager Omnidekka's.
(10 Nov 2021, 11:07 pm)Keeiajs Oh my apologies. What are happening to them? Being retrimmed?No worries. I've got no idea, I didn't think they'd be kept but I'd imagine they would get the same treatment as those Omnidekka's (repaint and retrim)