Slowly getting a chance to catch up on events.
Thought it best to start with a round up of the Oxford buses for Plymouth Citybus with the confirmed fleet numbers for the whole batch
| No. | Reg | Chassis | Body | Seats | New | Livery |
| 5025 | OE11YNJ | Alexander Dennis Trident E40H | Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 | H47/30F | Jun 2011 | Red |
| 5026 | OE11YNK | Alexander Dennis Trident E40H | Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 | H47/30F | Apr 2011 | maroon |
| 5027 | OE11YNL | Alexander Dennis Trident E40H | Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 | H47/30F | Jun 2011 | Red |
| 5028 | OE11YMY | Alexander Dennis Trident E40H | Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 | H47/30F | Apr 2011 | Purple |
| 5029 | OE11YMZ | Alexander Dennis Trident E40H | Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 | H47/30F | Apr 2011 | Maroon |
| 5030 | OE11YNO | Alexander Dennis Trident E40H | Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 | H47/30F | Apr 2011 | Purple |
| 5031 | OE11YNM | Alexander Dennis Trident E40H | Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 | H47/30F | May 2011 | Red |
| 5032 | OE11YNN | Alexander Dennis Trident E40H | Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 | H47/30F | May 2011 | Red |
| 5033 | OE11YNP | Alexander Dennis Trident E40H | Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 | H47/30F | May 2011 | Maroon |
| 5034 | OE11YNF | Alexander Dennis Trident E40H | Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 | H47/30F | May 2011 | Red |
| 5035 | OE11YMX | Alexander Dennis Trident E40H | Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 | H47/30F | Apr 2011 | Red |
| 5036 | OE11YNB | Alexander Dennis Trident E40H | Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 | H47/30F | May 2011 | Red |
| 5037 | OE11YNC | Alexander Dennis Trident E40H | Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 | H47/30F | Jun 2011 | Red |
| 5038 | OE11YNH | Alexander Dennis Trident E40H | Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 | H47/30F | Jun 2011 | Red |
| 5039 | SN60BXW | Alexander Dennis Trident E40H | Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 | H45/31F | Oct 2010 | Go CORNWALL bus |
I may not be fully up to date on the liveries for this batch as they are progressing through the paintshop.
5029 seen approaching St Budeaux on service 12 from Bude. 17 May 2024
© Mark Bailey – with thanks
Slightly annoyed these have mainly been put on Cornwall routes, like most things… Thought they were replacing the Scanias?
ReplyDelete5039 is in plain red but carries a bright rear end advert for Plymouth Active
ReplyDeleteAnd front end logo for Cornwall. Make it make sense!!
DeleteIt seems not for long! This week's edition of the Oxford & Chilterns Bus Page has input from Luke Marion, head of the Oxford companies to say that "we will be moving our fleet numbering to a 5 digit system in the not too distant future as part of the roll out of a new Go-Ahead group engineering system which requires all buses nationwide to have a unique number." Ten Enviro 400s newly acquired from National Express West Midlands have been allocated the first such numbers.
ReplyDeleteInteresting! There have been rumours in the past.
DeletePlymouth will be prefixed 7xxxx. Simple numbering expected, 550 would become 70550. 4011=74011 etc
DeleteThat could be quite clever given that there's nine distinct fleets. Is the idea to change the first character if a bus moves from, say, Plymouth to Oxford? Of course, London, currently has an alpha-numeric system but a parallel four digit fuelling number. So Plymouth is 7xxxx and Oxford 8xxxx.
DeleteWhich of course means vehicles will still need renumbering when they transfer between companies, which seems to defeat the point of a national numbering scheme, unless of course the point of the scheme is to immediately identify where the vehicle is allocated.
DeleteIt makes sense from a group perspective and I suppose it was inevitable at some point, but at the same time each subsidiary will lose some of its individually.
ReplyDeleteI did ask this a week or so back but maybe the comment didn't get through. There is now a Megabus service from 27 June from Plymouth to London. One return Th/F/Sa/Su/M - does anyone know who is operating it, and with what vehicle?
ReplyDeletehttps://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/new-megabus-service-connecting-plymouth-9371024
Also First South West's orders for Taunton's ZEBRA2 have been announced as 12 Yutong U11DD, 4 Yutong single-decks and 9 Wrightbus single-decks
https://www.route-one.net/news/first-bus-orders-169-yutong-electrics-for-zebra-2-successful-bids/