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Diamond Bus North West had an open top Trident (40100) that ran route 470 which was technically a normal passenger service as DBNW and System one tickets were accepted. The route also appeared on TFGM timetables and stopped at all stops on route. Prior to this service operating 40100 had run on...

I'd hope they were, if they carried on working they would be dead!

Ego have a good reputation but they are rather expensive for home/non commercial use. Although if I was able to mow as a full time business I wouldn't mind owning both battery and petrol equipment, I would use battery mowers for the day to day stuff and have the petrol mowers I own now (and...

One must be reminded thus of juniors changing thou native tongue, for on the morrow new dialect shalt arise of the foreign land of Tiktok.

Cycling on the pavement & in shopping centres (especially indoor ones)

Do all preserved buses under 25 require a tacho now?

Local buses do not need a tachograph. I believe a bus has to be 30 to be driven as a classic on a normal license but 40 to drive in London or Bath without CAZ/(U)LEZ. I don't know about long distance tachograph rules but a 25 year old bus will not be PSVAR compliant without heavy modification...

Some sites I have different usernames for anonymity and some I have different names as a pre-standardisation, I seem to automatically put myself in higher anonymity mode whenever my username is not "VolvoB10M" as it is on a lot of sites now. Since my join date was in 2011, before I standardised...

There are other services running contracted school services and the passenger number restrictions have mostly have been lifted (signs show all forward seats now in use). There was also not too many waiting for the first one, in fact there ended up being more on the second than there would have...

In my area there have recently been split services with normal routes running (123) and extra (123S) services for school only to reduce school passengers mixing with regular passengers due to restricted occupancy (although in practice it ended up with all the school students on the normal...

A pneumatic clutch sounds like it would be a nightmare to feel where the bite point is, anyone know what the fully automatic ZF/Voith Leyland Olympians had? I can see the Voith examples working with a pneumatic throttle setup since they shift hydraulically without trying to intervene with the...

Was the clutch hydraulic? Were the hydracyclic ones air throttle as well?

I don't think tram/train would work for the Hadfield/Glossop line, it would have to be reduced in Voltage to 750 VDC since it would be too risky to run two completely different voltages through the same OHLE equipment on the LRV. Putting a sizeable transformer on board would significantly...

Can anyone confirm if it was just buses that had Leyland epicyclic gearboxes that had an air controlled throttle (TL11, 6LXB Olympians, Atlanteans, Tigers and Nationals)? Or were there any others (ZF/Voith Olympians, Lynxes & retrofit re-engined Nationals/Tigers)? I am also curious to know if...

I found something which seems to go in to more detail as to the age to drive a preserved bus being 24 (https://www.cetransportlaw.com/post/how-old-must-you-be-to-drive-a-bus-is-it-21-or-18), although it still seems weird to me that even after getting a PCV license 20-23 year olds can only drive...