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RE: Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - Ambassador - 21 Jul 2023
It’s a credit to the livery that it can make nigh on 15 year old buses look nearly new
Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - streetdeckfan - 31 Jul 2023
Do the E400s not have a stupidly low speed limiter on them like some of the other ex-London vehicles?
Currently on 6955 and it was happily sitting at 60mph GPS on the A1 with it occasionally going up to 65mph. I get the impression if it wasn't for the traffic it could have kept going.
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Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - streetdeckfan - 31 Jul 2023
Lol, I jinxed it. 6955 is now buggered
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Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - Dan - 31 Jul 2023
(31 Jul 2023, 3:42 pm)streetdeckfan Do the E400s not have a stupidly low speed limiter on them like some of the other ex-London vehicles?
Currently on 6955 and it was happily sitting at 60mph GPS on the A1 with it occasionally going up to 65mph. I get the impression if it wasn't for the traffic it could have kept going.
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No, they’ll happily do 60.
The B9s are limited to 44 however.
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RE: Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - streetdeckfan - 31 Jul 2023
(31 Jul 2023, 4:56 pm)Dan No, they’ll happily do 60.I must admit, if it wasn't for the god awful seats on them, I'd quite like them!
The B9s are limited to 44 however.
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RE: Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - Unber43 - 31 Jul 2023
(31 Jul 2023, 5:44 pm)streetdeckfan I must admit, if it wasn't for the god awful seats on them, I'd quite like them!Seats are awful on the B9's from london aswell couldn't feel my arse after being on the 20 for an hour, they're by far the worst seats in the fleet no comfort.
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Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - adavies3774 - 02 Aug 2023
My question is how many of the Optare Olympuses are we getting? (DOES) DOE18 is parked at Saltmeadows
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RE: Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - Retro Nero - 02 Aug 2023
(02 Aug 2023, 5:59 am)adavies3774 My question is how many of the Optare Olympuses are we getting? (DOES) DOE18 is parked at Saltmeadows
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Supposedly six . But what for ..who knows?
RE: Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - ne14ne1 - 15 Aug 2023
Is 6215 awaiting the new GNE logos?
https://flic.kr/p/2oVV3Vo
RE: Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - busmanT - 15 Aug 2023
(02 Aug 2023, 1:17 pm)Retro Nero Supposedly six . But what for ..who knows?
A speculative acquisition??
Just in case?
RE: Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - Rapidsnap - 15 Aug 2023
At a complete guess, if there's only 6 and given nothing has appeared in terms of a dedicated fleet of buses for DFDS work. Perhaps these fit the bill, have 4 in DFDS livery with 2 spare in fleet colours, or even all 6. It's not unheard since they had about 10 buses branded for DFDS work around the early noughties (3538/3540/3674/3744/3832/3833/3866/3867/3890/3891). Basically the buses are acting as mobile adverts for DFDS, I think it might be part of the contract for vehicles to be painted up, or at least it used to be. Mind there is still two Omnidekkas knocking around the Eastern Gateshead routes promoting trips to Amsterdam.
RE: Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - ne14ne1 - 16 Aug 2023
(15 Aug 2023, 8:57 pm)Rapidsnap At a complete guess, if there's only 6 and given nothing has appeared in terms of a dedicated fleet of buses for DFDS work. Perhaps these fit the bill, have 4 in DFDS livery with 2 spare in fleet colours, or even all 6. It's not unheard since they had about 10 buses branded for DFDS work around the early noughties (3538/3540/3674/3744/3832/3833/3866/3867/3890/3891). Basically the buses are acting as mobile adverts for DFDS, I think it might be part of the contract for vehicles to be painted up, or at least it used to be. Mind there is still two Omnidekkas knocking around the Eastern Gateshead routes promoting trips to Amsterdam.
https://x.com/dan3942/status/1691681827692429446?s=46&t=tPuGEygnn6BhKgNFiA4yAw
RE: Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - Rapidsnap - 16 Aug 2023
If only I could predict the lottery numbers.
RE: Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - Storx - 16 Aug 2023
(16 Aug 2023, 12:56 pm)Rapidsnap If only I could predict the lottery numbers.
You'd lose money
. That's a B9 that, can tell by the lighting - it's a Wright vehicle.
RE: Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - Chris 1 - 17 Aug 2023
(15 Aug 2023, 5:33 pm)busmanT A speculative acquisition??
Just in case?
Speculative - I thought they were skint!
Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - adavies3774 - 17 Aug 2023
(15 Aug 2023, 8:57 pm)Rapidsnap At a complete guess, if there's only 6 and given nothing has appeared in terms of a dedicated fleet of buses for DFDS work. Perhaps these fit the bill, have 4 in DFDS livery with 2 spare in fleet colours, or even all 6. It's not unheard since they had about 10 buses branded for DFDS work around the early noughties (3538/3540/3674/3744/3832/3833/3866/3867/3890/3891). Basically the buses are acting as mobile adverts for DFDS, I think it might be part of the contract for vehicles to be painted up, or at least it used to be. Mind there is still two Omnidekkas knocking around the Eastern Gateshead routes promoting trips to Amsterdam.
There is a B9 on Dan Grahams twitter that shows it with luggage pen and rail so I would suspect they are in the process of converting buses to DFDS spec
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RE: Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - busmanT - 18 Aug 2023
(17 Aug 2023, 12:24 pm)Chris 1 Speculative - I thought they were skint!15 year old buses will be fully depreciated and thus won’t have cost GNE anything.
RE: Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - Chris 1 - 18 Aug 2023
(18 Aug 2023, 4:58 pm)busmanT 15 year old buses will be fully depreciated and thus won’t have cost GNE anything.
Would they not cost in terms of repaint, re-trim and whatever else they have done? Also, would there not be a cost associated with having 6 (?) vehicles sat around with no real role? I'd have thought it would be best practice to secure the work and then get the vehicles, rather than the other way round?
RE: Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - Storx - 18 Aug 2023
(18 Aug 2023, 4:58 pm)busmanT 15 year old buses will be fully depreciated and thus won’t have cost GNE anything.
Not sure about that mind, those buses have a value and I can't see GoAhead London just giving them away. They might not have a value on the accounts but that doesn't mean that some budgets haven't been passed around to fund the replacements in London, from GoNorthEast's budget, since they're gaining something.
Something with no value sold for £2k is £2k profit for GoAhead London which balances out the new bus depreciation partially.
RE: Go North East - Secondhand Deckers 2022 - ne14ne1 - 19 Aug 2023
New logos on 6195:
https://flic.kr/p/2oWK76a
EDIT: already covered in the pinned Corp repaint thread.