Recent content by christopher

Do wonder where they are planning to stand at Harold Wood. The stop directly outside the station doesn't have room for buses to stand and the 496 stand won't have room as only takes two buses or which their usually is.

Someone's going to have a nice insurance bill

That'll be cheap for a reason, probably find it needs new battery packs or the ones on it don't hold much range. Starting to see that on the early ones now. Another thing with the early electric 200s is the window pillars snapping because of the weight of the batteries - some are starting to...

It's not surprising, ADL missed the boat big time with the new gen EVs compared to the likes of Wright and BYD. Even now the 200 version is struggling

Must have been the one I saw in Crayford earlier

Believe it is so the ex-London stuff can settle in on the Plymouth routes and any niggles ironed out more easily before swapping back to go to Cornwall

I've been road testing a ADL BYD with an engineer plugged into it with a laptop who is streaming it to an engineer in China who could see in real time how much throttle I was applying and other readings. Yutongs can be updated remotely but don't believe anything else can be

I saw 26 being on the back of a Alleys trailer heading along the A13 towards the M25 on Thursday so assume off for scrap? Does anyone know where they are going?

Probably a lot easier to use the old Oyster readers in terms of rolling the new system out, can just take the old machine out and new one slots in

Just risen to 15 people died on BBC news, both on board and pedestrians https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cpqnnllppnpt

Only ever recall 315s, 317s and 321s since FGE days as a local. Not even sure 360s would have been cleared for it?

Handbrake will apply regardless of speed, same as can knock this type of bus into neutral whenever you like

I know the throttle pedals on these have two position sensors that read opposite values and if there was an error it would bring on a red engine light and cut power immediately. Only way it would jam is if a foreign object was caught under it such as a ticket roll Of course brakes on a bus work...

Think it'll be more likely pedal confusion...

Not sure on trains but I know on buses you have to have the air built up and handbrake released to wind off the spring brakes normally otherwise it's very hard to do, much harder on a train I'd imagine.