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February 2014

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27-02-14:

  • News Page: Wheel Forward Streetlites In Service with photos of 162, 163 and 165. Thanks to Stuart Curwen, James Cusworth,  and Graham Low for these photos.
  • News Page: New Greenwave Route with photo of 411. Thanks to James Cusworth for this.
  • Reading Transport Fleet List: 421-34 will be registered YN14 MXP/MXR-Z/MYA-D. 422 is to be in generic silver as well as 421, with both expected in March. 423-29 are in build, whilst 430-4 have been delivered ready for 10th. 151, 152, 154, 155 and 156 have all now departed for Wrightbus (dealer) along with 153, although 153 and possibly others have since passed to Ventura sales (dealer). Thanks to Brian Coney for this.
  • Reading Transport Fleet List: Scania / Alexander Enviro 300SG demonstrator 400 returned to Scania on 25th, but was replaced by an unidentified Scania OmniCity double deck which will continue to cover for ongoing warranty work on the gas buses. It will use temporary fleet number 1100 and is in London red. It has yet to be decided which routes it will be used on.
  • Reading Transport Scania ND230 / East Lancs Olympuses: 843 has been repainted into the new Sky Blue livery, returning to service on 16th. Thanks to John Wheeler for this.
  • Carousel Buses Fleet List: 116 has arrived from Oxford Bus Company and gained The Blue Bus lettering. 931 has recently been withdrawn and sold for scrap. Thanks to Malcolm Crowe for this.
  • First Berkshire Fleet List: The Wright Streetlite Max are on order for Slough for delivery in April. Thanks to Brian Coney for this. 65863 returned to Southampton on 10th. 69931/2 entered service by 12th. Thanks to Mat Wooll for this.
  • Fleet Buzz Fleet List: 16261 is now in use with 16588/90 out of use, with the allocation of Olympians appearing fairly fluid with Basingstoke. Thanks to Paul Blackman for this.
  • Thames Travel Fleet List: 480 is in use as a mobile office at Hogwood. Thanks to Malcolm Crowe for this. 451-4 are thought to have all arrived with Plymouth Citybus now. At least 101 and 109 remain in service.
  • White Bus Services Fleet List: The two new Optare Solo SRs are to be registered YJ14 BBN/O. Thanks to Glenn De Sousa for this.
  • Oxford Bus Company Fleet List: 114 has been returned to service as a spare for the Chiltern Railways contract. Thanks to Ralph Adams and David Harper for this.
  • Stagecoach in Oxfordshire Fleet List: The registrations for 15933/4 are YN63 BYM/L not the reserve. Thanks to Paul Blackman for this.
  • Stagecoach in Warwickshire Fleet List: 36168 has returned to service at Nuneaton from reserve. 34644 has transferred from Northampton to Rugby. Thanks to Keith Wood for this.

15-02-14:

  • Reading Transport Fleet List: 163 entered service on 4th, 164 on 7th, 165 on 8th, 161 on 12th and 162 on 13th, 161's first duty being an unusual working on route 2 due to road closures. 153 left on 3rd heading for Lingfield. Last observations in service for the others so far were 151 - 4th, 152 - 12th, 154 - 11th, 155 - 5th, 156 - 12th. 312/3 are confirmed as Apple and Blackberry, 313 being in use by 10th and 312 still away for repaint. Thanks to James Cusworth, Brian Coney, Davie G and Martin for this. 1114 has gained a new ColourBus livery for Launch Pad, Reading Buses' charity of the year 2014, and was launched on 28th January following application on 27th.
  • Reading Transport Scania ND230 / East Lancs Olympuses: 844 has been repainted at Renault Trucks into the new Sky Blue livery, returning to service on 2nd. It lost its MegaRear for Just Tiles in the process.
  • Carousel Buses Fleet List: Volvo B7TLs 918-22, Leyland Olympians 923-25/27 and Volvo Olympians 928-31 are to be withdrawn and replaced by 10 Dennis Tridents recently withdrawn by Oxford Bus Company, with 3 more likely to follow later. 102 transferred in February running in partially debranded Oxford livery, which is very similar to Carousel livery. Thanks to Ralph Adams.
  • Courtney Buses Fleet List: YJ62 FYH has been repainted into purple livery. Thanks to David Stewart for this.
  • First Berkshire Fleet List: 65624 was withdrawn on 21 January having been replaced by the new Volvos 7900Hs. 44560 transferred from Slough to Bracknell in early February. 69934 went to Volvo for warranty work in early February. Thanks to Mat Wooll for this. BMC 68563 arrived on loan from First Southampton on 23rd January, returning on approx 28th. 33141/42/45/53 have had their wheelchair bays relocated to match the others from the batch, altering their seating capacity from H39/25F to H39/23F. Seating capacities in 33180-83 corrected to H39/24F whilst 33179 is H33/22F. Thanks to Brian Coney for this.
  • Weavaway Travel Fleet List: MAC 96P has been reregistered 461 XPB. YX63 ZVJ-P have received South Midland lettering, and ZVR/S for Newbury & District. R831 OVN  and S918 ANH have been repainted into the NBC inspired “Noah Vale” poppy red and white livery. Thanks to Dave Wilder for this.
  • White Bus Services Fleet List: Plaxton Primos KX57 FKW/OVC are on short term loan from Dawson Rental spending delivery of the new Optares
  • Oxford Bus Company Fleet List: Five new Volvo B11R / Plaxton Panther 2s are expected shortly for the Airline, thought to be 21-5 and registered AF-EF14 OXF. 84 and one other have gone on loan to Plymouth Citycoach for emergency rail replacement work.
  • Oxford Bus Company Fleet List: 1581-4 have had 8 seats removed to become H47/24F with room for 6 bicycles for use on Chiltern Railways replacement services between Oxford and Bicester starting today. No vehicles appear to have been added to the fleet as replacements. Airline 12-16 are being repainted into white for use on Airline and X90 joining recently treated 17-18 with 12-18 also being renumbered 41-7. 12-14 have been completed and renumbered along with 17/18. Thanks to Ralph Adams for this.
  • Stagecoach in Oxfordshire Fleet List: 33650 went on loan from Banbury to Witney on 1st. Thanks to Martin Townsend for this. Loaned 22936/41 now appear to be considered as transfers to Stagecoach West, with 22768-71 only in reserve pending service changes.
  • Stagecoach in Warwickshire Fleet List: 16729 has transferred from reserve at Rugby to Stratford. Leamington reserves 33460 and 33911 and Leamington 34121 have been withdrawn for disposal. Rugby 34398 has been withdrawn for return to Warwickshire County Council. Rugby 34491-3 have gone into reserve, being replaced by 34591/2, 34625 and 35218 transferred from Northampton. Megabus reserve 53028 has transferred to South Wales. Leamington reserve 47032 is to transfer to Northampton from 17 February.

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