toms
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Not saying your not right or anything but all new delivered vehicles come preset with Go North West routes on the blinds for some reason
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mayneway
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Another short term loan between Middleton and Queens Road sees 37631 go to Middleton with Optare Solo 41113 (I think) go to Queens - this is due to faults with 2 of the Mellors which should be rectified in the coming days.
BlitzFan87
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11870 has gone to queens road to help with increased pvr
Is that no to knowing what the buses are, or is it no, the report of 150 extra vehicles is wrong?
citybus2500
Member
All the Metroline buses that were stored at Wigan had full GNW blinds loaded. Presumably because they just pick up the wireless updates whilst there.
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There are no further buses on order other than those already known about, so up to fleetnumber 558.
The E400Hs and BYDs will be going into a refurb/repaint programme commencing in a few months time.
mayneway
Member
They won’t pick up updates unless set up to do so. Someone will have manually loaded them up using a USB.
toms
Member
Wow I didn’t think it was that simple nowadays lol. I was still under the impression you still had to plug into each bus with a usb. Shows how bad my knowledge is
mayneway
Member
You do! Each bus has to be manually updated using a USB pen drive!
Leyland Bus
Member
It's probably a good thing you can still do a manual update, the "over the ether" updates have been very hit and miss!
Meanwhile a Solo has managed to make it onto Manchester routes again, seen it commencing a trip on the 118.
toms
Member
Does anyone who might know or work at Go North West depots know if MX70AOV - 3478 has been painted into Bee Network livery, someone on Facebook who works at Wigan depot stated that MX20KXM - 3427 is the last streetdeck at Go North West to be painted into yellow and has been sent off but on bus times 3478 is shown in service in diamond colours?
MCRTransitYT
Member
I don't work there but i believe on the Bee network enthusiasts fb page, they were shown to be sent off for a repaint, with 3427 being the last being sent
toms
Member
Must’ve been repainted and gone undetected, if it isn’t a machine error I’m sure it’ll be rectified shortly
darylyates17
Member
Just hasn't been updated it will be in Yellow.
mayneway
Member
Middleton are extremely short at the moment. 11870 has returned with 37149 going back to Queens road.Meanwhile a Solo has managed to make it onto Manchester routes again, seen it commencing a trip on the 118.
47550
Member
I thought they were for the 280 Altrincham - Dunham Massey due to a low bridge that means only a Solo or Mellor Orion can use it. However, Solo 20746 seems to be the usual vehicle allocated at the moment.
The irritating beeping in the passenger saloon is back!
Hopefully just on my bus (84227)
Hopefully just on my bus (84227)
978wta
Member
It appears Diamond have 2 New Enviro 200s in all over white, they don’t have Bee spec interiors so I assume these are on hire?
MCRTransitYT
Member
I had that on a citaro last week!
darylyates17
Member
They do have 2 white MMCs to cover for extra Mellors as Stagecoach are keeping theirs.
Class 466
Established Member
PVR (Peak Vehicle Requirement before I get called out for using an acronym) at Oldham increases by 13 on Sunday 23 February. Vehicle availability across Stagecoach Manchester will become particularly tight from that point onwards.
davyp
Member
12192 expired on the 374 on Saturday on Chatsworth Road, Hazel Grove, Stockport at about 9.35 am. Mechanic arrived but although the engine was running there was no 'drive'. Sounds expensive. Finally towed away at about 12.30 pm. If they are short of vehicles, this won't help!
Pyewipecarshed
Member
Slightly confused (not local!)... I've just seen Go North West Citaro 6242 on the V4. I'm guessing it just diverts around the guideway?
Leyland Bus
Member
The V4 doesn't run on the Guide way. It operates from the Park and Ride site at Swinton on the A580 and heads into Manchester IIRC.
Pyewipecarshed
Member
Ah thank you, that explains it!!
Leyland Bus
Member
No worries. We have run "non guide wheel" buses on the other V routes before and they just avoid the guided section but it's not a common occurrence these days.
toms
Member
It’s been reported on Facebook and by a GNW source on discord that Streetdeck 3501 had been converted from diesel to EV? Does anyone know why this has been decided? Or is there a new programme to convert the Go North West StreetDecks to EV?
Leyland Bus
Member
It's a trial to see if it's worth doing the rest or not.