23 Aug 2014, 9:15 pm
#118
(23 Aug 2014, 8:47 pm)Robert Probably, i know they were there in 2003 but cant find any pics of either before hand so yes, id probably say that you're right.
In addition to the photo linked to in my post above, I've found another from December 2002 - so I think we can safely assume that they have indeed worked for Percy Main for all of their lives at GNE. I'll confirm this in my e-mail tomorrow though.
That's another 13 vehicles done (I've done as much as I can for now with 3885-89), bringing the total up to 514/689... Round that up to be approx. 75% of the entire fleet!
Tomorrow's plan?
In addition to getting the news done tomorrow, I intend to get all of the 25 Scania L94UBs new in 2001 done, and I'll also try and do all 35 Volvo B7TLs (this should be fairly easy, given that I've already done half of the job by jotting down when they arrived into the fleet, what their fleet number down in London was, etc). If I manage to get all of this done, I intend on getting the ex-Arriva and ex-Oxford Volvo B10BLEs done, given that they've joined the fleet fairly recently and haven't moved about too much, so that should be pretty easy too. That should take us up to 602/689 (approximately 87% complete).
In reality, that 87% will soon become a higher percentage, with a number of vehicles being withdrawn prior to the new academic school year. For obvious reasons, I'm not going to waste time on adding information for the Volvo Olympians, withdrawn vehicles, or "Lime" branded vehicles. I'm not going to do anything for the withdrawn buses in the fleet (for obvious reasons), nor am I going to do anything for the remaining Olympians in the fleet (given that some will be withdrawn in a week's time and the remaining ones by Christmas) - we're looking at this getting to >90% without me doing a thing...
So... What's left?
- Dennis Tridents 3801-3804, 3858-3880
- Volvo B10BLEs 4896-4925
- ..and at a push, Volvo B10BLEs 4841-4843, 4845-4847
The repaints for the above have most likely already been done by me early on in the project, and it'll be a case of going through the Fleet Archive to add as much as we can before turning to GNE for help again.
I'm setting no targets for getting this completed by a certain date, but I am eager to get it finished before I go back to school...
