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I'd guess one of the new Wrightbus GB Kite Electroliners.

Very cool, i like the joined up thinking and how smart it all is. Better than what the DfChatGPT will come up with.

Appreciate the opinion, several years ago I would regularly stand from the west side of Haddington on the X7 at peaks and now get to do the same from Blindwells on the X5 so it's reflective of both my experience and trying to accommodate the ongoing housing growth in both areas proactively (like...

Wasn't aware, but I can fix: ECB proposal trying to smooth the East Lothian network v2 Majority of routes unchanged except for: X7 - truncated at Haddington, retains 20 minute frequency, upgraded to deckers. Uses Market Street / High Street to turn. X8 - New express route, Dunbar to...

ECB proposal trying to smooth the East Lothian network Majority of routes unchanged except for: X7 - truncated at Haddington, retains 20 minute frequency, upgraded to deckers. Uses Market Street / High Street to turn. 108 - New route, Dunbar to Haddington (mirroring current day X7) - 40...

I wonder if ECB will lose 1051-1062 as they only have 5 B9s to replace. They have the red interiors so would suit LCB or City.

They want Volvo and there is no diesel 2 axle option available anymore.

I'd imagine they'll be refurbished, reseated and put into City fleet.

The "British built" deffo confirms that for me, but as they are not party to any government funding, I don't think such an obligation was ever inferred. In fact had they gone with Volvo's preference, they'd be MCV bodied, so they've done the UK industry a favour by speccing XLBs again.

Hopefully ScotRail's more extensive sounding refurb will handle a lot of it, and recent painful experience in taking on and learning a new fleet (when they took the HSTs on) will influence how good a support package they take on and how realistic they are about introducing them to traffic...

On page 60 it states "Of the nine applications received, six met the minimum scoring thresholds and were shortlisted for discussion" So 9 received 5 agreed 4 rejected 3 of those 4 were thrown out straight away.

I do remember them all getting new batteries for the hybrid drivetrain a number of years back, I do wonder that they are being withdrawn when those fail, rather than replace them again?

I do agree that there should be some mechanism to remove passes from trouble makers, but given that doing so wouldn't bar them from travelling on the appropriate fare and causing trouble anyway doesn't solve anything. Youth Hooliganism is similar to Drug Policy in a way. There is no simple...

Did these ever materialise?

I hope you said this loudly and in a German accent :D

9 is still a more than 20% uplift in seats, plus the visibility of available seats will be much better. I've got everything crossed these are for ECB.

Thanks that puts a good deal of speculation to rest, my own included!

That just further firms up my belief then, these will be the same as the first batch. If some are for LCB/ECB it would be easy to program the on board announcements for particular stops that are unsuitable for the centre door to include "exit via the front door only" or words to that effect...

In that case I'll be surprised if they aren't 13.4m and dual door, as if they aren't that's two bits of re-engineering ADL would have to do, and they'd need to incorporate an emergency exit door to make it three big changes.

I believe it's because 12.8m is the longest version MCV have bodied and they've bodied them for years since the last 13.4m XLB was built. So people either know the longer variant has been discontinued by Volvo, or assuming 12.8m is the max due to that all what's been made for years. I am...