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Post by alexander on Dec 16, 2012 14:32:26 GMT
Travelled on 30938 today and spotted a number 5793 in the top right hand corner above upper deck window , is this an old fleetnumber ?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2012 14:39:29 GMT
Travelled on 30938 today and spotted a number 5793 in the top right hand corner above upper deck window , is this an old fleetnumber ? Yes, that is an old West Yorkshire fleet number. Some of the ex Bradford BLEs have got them on the cab windows and 30880 has too. |
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Post by busman3 on Dec 16, 2012 14:53:05 GMT
There are a few FSY buses with the old fleet numbers on and I think some of the ex London stuff as the old numbers in the cab on a plate with the height if I remember correctly
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2012 14:58:20 GMT
Some of the original South Yorkshire B10LEs have got old numbers inside on the destination blind box like a lot of the B10Ms did.
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Post by Arriva Wakefield on Dec 16, 2012 17:22:12 GMT
Quite why Bradford put the old fleetnumbers on the cab windows at the time of the renumbering I don't know, unless they were still allocating by those numbers, but even so am surprised they have lasted so long, as must be nearly 10 years since the renumbering.
Saying that, Glasgow were still allocating local numbers to new vehicles until a few years ago (have a feeling the ex SY Geminis may have got local DVxxx fleetnumbers on paper)
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2012 22:43:51 GMT
Are Glasgow not still giving local numbers Arriva Wakefield?
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Post by Arriva Wakefield on Dec 17, 2012 10:55:32 GMT
Not heard of any being reported for a while.
Mind you there wasn't always logic used when allocating them.
The first batch of Tridents were numbered in order of arrival even though they knew which ones were coming, so could have been numbered in order.
Their first batch of Geminis were numbered between DV1 & DV100 (in order) but there are only 84 buses, do there was a gap of 16 numbers left around the DV60-80 mark.
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Post by busman3 on Dec 17, 2012 12:02:46 GMT
When we had the sy renumbering i did for my own use a conversion chart i gave a copy to a friend funny i saw a few drivers using the same chart to work out what they were looking for . Understand that fsy engineering still used old numbers for a while. Bus as said above for a number to appear for so long is surprising.
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