"New" Open Toppers
"New" Open Toppers
Saturday marked the first use of the DAFs on the Toon Tour, 6998 was out in use, and bus times claims 3999 was the other vehicle, but I strongly suspect it may have been 6997 using the ticket machine from 3999 mainly because 3999 was parked in Percy Main depot at around 2pm in a line with withdrawn 3997 / 3998.
(21 May 2022, 6:58 pm)Rapidsnap Saturday marked the first use of the DAFs on the Toon Tour, 6998 was out in use, and bus times claims 3999 was the other vehicle, but I strongly suspect it may have been 6997 using the ticket machine from 3999 mainly because 3999 was parked in Percy Main depot at around 2pm in a line with withdrawn 3997 / 3998.Do 3997 & 3998 have to be withdrawn.
(21 May 2022, 6:58 pm)Rapidsnap Saturday marked the first use of the DAFs on the Toon Tour, 6998 was out in use, and bus times claims 3999 was the other vehicle, but I strongly suspect it may have been 6997 using the ticket machine from 3999 mainly because 3999 was parked in Percy Main depot at around 2pm in a line with withdrawn 3997 / 3998.Do 3997 & 3998 have to be withdrawn.
6999 is likely to be replacing 3999.
Also the 3 B7TLs have been sold already.
6999 (897EYX) has been painted into Toon Tour livery. Which has suprised me as I thought it would have gone into Roadstripe, unless that role is to be fulfilled by 6900.
is strange to see a Euro 6 sticker on a President and a DAF in particular. yes i know its a cummins but still is weird. There should be some lovely moments where the DAF's will scream around and will not allow you to hear the Tour Audio
(27 May 2022, 6:59 pm)KingSlayerRBLX is strange to see a Euro 6 sticker on a President and a DAF in particular. yes i know its a cummins but still is weird. There should be some lovely moments where the DAF's will scream around and will not allow you to hear the Tour Audio
(27 May 2022, 6:59 pm)KingSlayerRBLX is strange to see a Euro 6 sticker on a President and a DAF in particular. yes i know its a cummins but still is weird. There should be some lovely moments where the DAF's will scream around and will not allow you to hear the Tour Audio
(27 May 2022, 7:16 pm)ne14ne1 We missed hearing several chunks of commentary from the previous President’s engines, hence why I hoped these ones would’ve had their headphone sockets left in tact, but unfortunately they haven’t.It's often not just engine noise that disrupts the audio experience, not GNE but I remember doing the Eastbourne Sightseeing tour last summer with only speakers to listen to the commentary to and I heard very little of the audio commentary because of the breeze, much prefer the option of having headphone ports to plug into as volume is adjustable to be able to listen to the audio more clearly, assuming they were also removed by GNE as I would assume they only have audio commentary in English whereas a lot of these sightseeing tours are multilingual.
(27 May 2022, 7:16 pm)ne14ne1 We missed hearing several chunks of commentary from the previous President’s engines, hence why I hoped these ones would’ve had their headphone sockets left in tact, but unfortunately they haven’t.It's often not just engine noise that disrupts the audio experience, not GNE but I remember doing the Eastbourne Sightseeing tour last summer with only speakers to listen to the commentary to and I heard very little of the audio commentary because of the breeze, much prefer the option of having headphone ports to plug into as volume is adjustable to be able to listen to the audio more clearly, assuming they were also removed by GNE as I would assume they only have audio commentary in English whereas a lot of these sightseeing tours are multilingual.
What is the logic behind removing them?
Surely they can be tied into the same audio stream as the speakers with minimal effort
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(28 May 2022, 12:28 pm)streetdeckfan What is the logic behind removing them?
Surely they can be tied into the same audio stream as the speakers with minimal effort
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(28 May 2022, 3:17 pm)Dan They can’t.surely you can turn the volume up on the announcements. think it is needed cause the DAF's will scream over the audios
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(28 May 2022, 3:17 pm)Dan They can’t.surely you can turn the volume up on the announcements. think it is needed cause the DAF's will scream over the audios
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The seats they have now are just as bad as the Urban 90s. Zero padding.
Are these the first DAF DB250’s after the Spectras? If so that is a very long time ago
Just an idea but on many other sightseeing tours they have people on the buses doing the commentary and it makes it a lot more enjoyable for a passenger! Doesn't have to be anything flashy! Could even be weekends only but people enjoy having that commentary told to them by a person on board rather than an audio recording of someone who doesn't sound very local!
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