(22 Mar 2016, 8:50 pm)Kuyoyo wrote Sad day for all - major change to the Derbyshire Wayfarer tickets from the Derbyshire County Council Transport page
(04 Oct 2017, 7:13 pm)S813 FVK wrote The final batch of E200MMCs of this round of orders for TrentBarton have now started to be delivered. They are the shorter variant for the allestree routes replacing the Optare Solo SRs currently allocated: https://flic.kr/p/Y7uRSi
(14 Oct 2017, 8:07 am)Kuyoyo wrote 503 has now been refurbished and repainted into a new 'Spondon Flyer' livery (screenshotted photos below taken from the 'Fans of the Wellglade Group' Facebook Group and are @ Miles Williams)
(10 Nov 2017, 11:53 am)Kuyoyo wrote Rumours are now about that the former Spondon Flyer Versas will be moving onto the 'My15' alongside the current examples with talk of the long-mentioned extension of the route to East Midlands Airport (originally planned when the B7RLE were delivered in 2009 - they, indeed, had blinds for both the Airport and Heanor when delivered).
(15 Oct 2017, 5:50 pm)Kuyoyo wrote Where the Solos currently used on the Allestree are going is currently unknown - but considering the major of the former 'Nines' Solos are still awaiting re-allocation some 10 months after the E200MMCs entered service on there, I wouldn't expect 492-7 to turn up somewhere quickly.
(17 Jul 2018, 1:39 pm)Kuyoyo wrote Trent Barton
‘Skylink Express’ is revised from this coming Sunday - it will now be ‘Skylink Clifton’ using 3 Scania L94UBs formerly used on ‘Skylink Nottingham’ to replace the unreliable Scania/Irizar i4s.
(02 Aug 2018, 12:28 pm)Kuyoyo wrote Trent Barton
The first Indigo E200MMC is on show at Long Eaton today - YY18TPO which will be 207. Seemingly confirming the Indigo batch (which are the 11.5m Cummins 4 cylinder engine version) are 201-15. The two ‘Mango’ liveried spares on order are said to be the same model so in theory should be 216/7. The 13 ‘i4’ examples are the 11.7m six cylinder model (as per the ‘Mickleover’, ‘Mainline’ and ‘Skylink’ examples).
(02 Sep 2018, 1:47 pm)Tamesider wrote Does anyone have an up to date fleet list for Nottingham City Transport? Googling only finds hopelessly out-of-date versions anbd/or numerically the first 30 or so buses - which have probably now be sold.
In particular, I'm after registration details of the E400Citys (incl. any known to be on order) and any other new deliveries since November 2016 - noting 431-3 are reported "up thread". Note, I do not subscribe to "TwitFaceAgram".
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(12 Sep 2018, 7:12 pm)Tamesider wrote BLOTW report about 13 more E200Ms for Trent Barton with registrations in the YX68 ULx range. Does anyone know he fleet numbers or which number series will be used ie following on from 128 or 217, possibly?
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(12 Sep 2018, 7:34 pm)S813 FVK wrote They should just follow on from the indigo batch.
They're for the i4 service replacing the Tempo SRs. I believe one (unbranded bar the light up logo on the front) was used as part of a Careers Roadshow held by ADL in Manchester.
(12 Sep 2018, 10:25 pm)Kuyoyo wrote The ‘i4’ E200s should be 129 onwards, as they have the six cylinder engine rather than the 4 cylinder version found in 201-7/51-69.
(07 Oct 2018, 1:45 pm)Tamesider wrote Have these actually been rumbered yet? BLOTW originally quoted 129-141, then due to a registration mix up, they were quoted as 128-140 - obviously wrong, as there is already a "128" - but now they are showing as 218-230.
(07 Oct 2018, 6:41 pm)Kuyoyo wrote The first one is currently being used for familiarisation - that’s 129 (YX68 ULA). It’s the first to feature the new ‘Smart Mirrors’ - cameras in place of wingmirrors.
(07 Oct 2018, 7:00 pm)S813 FVK wrote Another bit of technology waiting to go wrong!
Will be interesting to see whether or not it actually makes driving easily. The rest of the batch have regular wingmirrors: