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An interesting registration had appeared on bustimes.org under First Berkshire from the 2nd of March under route number M40 https://bustimes.org/services/m40-high-wycombe-bus-station-uxbridge-rail-station It appears that the route will run between High Wycombe and Uxbridge via M40 between...

They're like that for the last 10 years. I was hoping that the competition from Carousel and Thames Valley will kick them out from Slough eventually, as not much is left from the former glory - but it seems the Heathrow routes and railair are keeping them afloat and profitable enough to justify...

Do you think it would make sense to create even faster version of X74, with entering/leaving M40 on J4 avoiding Loudwater altogheter? 1752139078 Yes, but that was also the case before 2013. Even though Berkshire was a separate operation, its proximity to the London management team meant they...

The situation is quite interesting, since First is present in London again, therefore Berkshire operations won't be as isolated as in the last few years so management should be able take some steps, unless they treat Slough as burden anyway and are happy with whatever is left over from the empire.

I am really happy to see that they're increasing the frequencies in Slough on the 103 and on the Wexham corridor - there's so much potential in the town that First failed to materialise and the recent developements in the network seem to prove it well. Only if there would be some sort of...

Slough hasn't got one for more than 2 years since the fire and it seems buses can perfectly get along without one, however as the bus stops are not thought out properly along Wellington Street changing buses between them is a nightmare, especially with low frequencies of every 30mins - 1hr on...

One fits all design is simply archaic. Most bus companies in Europe seem to have buses of various lenght/design to suit them to various type of the tasks. For an urban bus route with frequent stops they have ones with less seats and multiple doors for suburban routes where a typical journey is...

Chance for Slough operations to become well managed again. The decline started when they sold off London and transferred management to Hampshire.

Less vibrations, better oil circulation with a lube pump and tend to take less space, and with ever increasing demand on accomodating particulates filters that's always a plus. The best comparision on what filters do to engine bay sizes would be between tower drive buses where this is seen the...

It starts to make sense as a method to convert extra electricity generated druing the day from solar and wind that cannot be used elsewhere or otherwise redundant spare power generated overnight from nuclear plants who are less flexible to operate. Even if it is 4.5 less efficient than direct...

I wonder provincial operators bosses skin crawl when they look at Czech SOR buses that as standard have as many as 4 doors across 12m standard length bus eg. in the below link from Wiki Commons...

Have you tried contacting BK Invest? They seemed to been their distributor at the time, Optare is still listed as the brand on their website so perhaps this could be a way to start? https://www.bkinvest.se/index.php/kontakt I have also found couple of more pictures of this bus from this...

Yeah, heard about this, even had one of these back in the day but it didn't seem as a nationwide compulsory solution. More often than not people won't have it :)

Zoom in the picture that OP had mentioned, you can see set of door hinges in the middle of the door rather than the usual rubber ''insulation'' :) Maybe that way they can use a single pneumatic piston rather than two in synchro?

That's where ID scheme would come handy, so each one could prove how old are they and what discounts are they eliglible for - like in many countries in Europe.