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[ytcbarnsley2006]

I go away for a long weekend, and all hell breaks loose.

The 4 Volvo B10M deckers (901-4 in old money) - those used on the X19 and X32 until a few years back - will be leaving Yorkshire soon and go on to permanent short-haul Megabus.com work. All 4 have been seeing inceasing Megabus useage of late, indeed 902 is currently off the road after blowing it's engine on the M1 near London whilst on such work.

To cover for the eventual departure of the 4, and provide a few extra spare vehicles, the following came in to Barnsley last week:

3 x B6/Alexander from store at Holbrook. 2 still in Terrier livery, one repainted into Stagecoach livery. The two Terrier livered ones will go this week once the 2 vehicles below are in use:

2 x Volvo B10M/Alexander ex Stagecoach in Warwickshire. They are H reg vintage (but still quite tidy) and were new to Burnley.

2 x Dennis Dart/Alexander ex Chesterfield.

Longer term some decent decker stock should be coming from elsewhere within the group.

[westgate]

thats good then good about the B10m buses cant wait to see them is it h617 and h623 reg or am i mistaken?

shame about 901/2/3/4 going onto megabus work be good to see some new buses coming into barnsley and yorkshire.

cant wait to see the new volvo b10ms

[westgate]

Will there be any new low floor buses for stagecoach in yorkshire this year apart from the 22 new buses coming in december?

and when will sheffield get some double deckers in stagecoach livery for routes such as the 120 and new routes aswell which may become popular?

[lboyle]

good news there but will any of these ex buses be for rotherham?

[ytcbarnsley2006]

lboyle said:

good news there but will any of these ex buses be for rotherham?

No, as I said, BARNSLEY given that is where 3 of the 4 B10M deckers that are going are/were allocated

[Luke]

Where is volvo 962 is it permanantly based at Rawmarsh or is it on loan

When are the deckers coming and what types. Are they coming to replace the metrobuses aswell

[firstbus26]

Hi,

I think that Stagecoach will order 30 new low floor for Barnsley for 12 month time. I don't know what that for?

Any idea?

Rotherdam will get new Evolution of 10 or 20 buses come this month or November.

am I right?

Martyn

[ytcbarnsley2006]

luke1990 said:

Where is volvo 962 is it permanantly based at Rawmarsh or is it on loan

When are the deckers coming and what types. Are they coming to replace the metrobuses aswell

962 and 980 moved to Rawmarsh from Barnsley at the start of this month with two boards of work (1x79, 1x227_. 133 also moved at the same time as an additional low floor for repaint cover.

The details on which deckers are coming and where from keeps changing, so I'll wait until something is firmed up before posting on here, don't forget though that ideally Yorkshire needs low height deckers, full height ones can not be operated in certain areas (i.e. anything out of Shafton depot) due to low railway bridges etc, which makes finding suitable stock rather more difficult.

[ytcbarnsley2006]

firstbus26 said:

Hi,

I think that Stagecoach will order 30 new low floor for Barnsley for 12 month time. I don't know what that for?

Any idea?

Rotherdam will get new Evolution of 10 or 20 buses come this month or November.

am I right?

Martyn

Are you asking me or telling me ?

Not sure where Rotherdam is, but Rawmarsh will shortly be getting the 7 MAN/Evolutions ordered last year by Tracky, which have been totally re-specced to Stagecoach standards. Doubt Stagecoach will buy any more MCV bodies, so I think you're up on cloud cookoo with the 20 Evolutions.

[traction25]

Indeed have to agree with you ytcbarnsley that the 2 H plate B10Ms are in good condition for their year even if a bit old fashioned. They even have the old red YTC style moquette on their seats and with the new displays fitted they look very clean outside. These new orange electronic displays are a bit of a change from the blurry/feint systems fitted to the other 3 B10s from Cumbria and those awful similar ones the H reg Olympians arrived with! At least the ones on the B10s all now seem to be functioning again, the ones on 20751 even all show the same number!

The 2 J reg Darts also seem in suprisingly good condition inside for their age, though the engine on 32806 does sound a bit ropey!

[manclad]

Stagecoach Manchester have the complete allocation of enviro deckers now that Newcastl has theres. Thats 117! These are and will inevitably dsplace ALX 400 tridents. I would have thought that they would be getting rid of the early models, however, the ones leaving seem to be 55 plates. So far a few have left for Devon so don't be surprised if som end up in Yorkshire. The Alx400 should fit the railway bridges.

[ytcbarnsley2006]

manclad said:

Stagecoach Manchester have the complete allocation of enviro deckers now that Newcastl has theres. Thats 117! These are and will inevitably dsplace ALX 400 tridents. I would have thought that they would be getting rid of the early models, however, the ones leaving seem to be 55 plates. So far a few have left for Devon so don't be surprised if som end up in Yorkshire. The Alx400 should fit the railway bridges.

ALX400's are too tall for some bridges. Anything allocated to Shafton can be no taller than 13 foot 10 inches, think ALX400's are over 14 feet.

[admin]

the alx400 buses are being shipped off to hul but not all of them only the s and t reg ones not sure about the 55 reg ones so they might come who knows.

[manclad]

Any ALX 400's that come to Yorkshire are likely to be Barnsley based, unless they go to Sheffield. Therefore they would be suitable for many routes. One particular bridge in the USR operating area often was a problem (Darton bridge) however, only the 93 and 235 pass under here these days so doesn't present much of a problem.

[admin]

yes but the question is now looking at barnsleys bus routes does any route need to be deckers in barnsley?

even the 226 and 325 don't seem as fulla s they were back in tracky days can only see the 227 being double and that isn't exactly full to capacity, the 226 as being proved in rush hour it doesnt need deckers as there have being a few renowns and other single buses on there, for yorkshire the only real place i can see decker operating for now is in sheffield but still there is no full bus routes which have a demand for deckers except probabily the 120 unless they do a rotherham to sheffield route then maybe that could be a double decker service aswell.

but for barnsley (and this is just my opinion) i don't think it needs deckers because the differnce betwenn sheffield and barnsley in sheffield stagecoach and first have services frequent and only a few buses going on same road as each other where as in barnsley yyou could have up to 5 buses going to same area on nearly the same route and with a frequency of say every 30 minutes each it puts people off bus routes like that (well it does me) and also i saw an omnidecker a few week back in middle of rush hour at 16:40pm and not a single person was on that bus only decker route possibly in barnsley i can see is the 228/9 and thats only because it gets full between brampton and rotherham and then about 5 people stay on to go to meadowhall if that.