NM wrote:

D/D tend to be used in cities

Unfortunately this is not true. Stagecoach tend to use DD buses for
rural routes.

Stephen Firth wrote:

NM wrote:

D/D tend to be used in cities

Unfortunately this is not true.

Wrong.

Stagecoach tend to use DD buses for
rural routes.

Not in Hampshire.

"John B" wrote in message
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Stephen Firth wrote:

NM wrote:

D/D tend to be used in cities

Unfortunately this is not true.

Wrong.

Stagecoach tend to use DD buses for
rural routes.

Not in Hampshire.


Er yes they do, I was on one this morning between Bishops Waltham and
Swanmore. Stagecoach 69...

Paul

Paul Scott wrote:
"John B" wrote in message
...
Stephen Firth wrote:

NM wrote:

D/D tend to be used in cities
Unfortunately this is not true.
Wrong.

Stagecoach tend to use DD buses for
rural routes.
Not in Hampshire.


Er yes they do, I was on one this morning between Bishops Waltham and
Swanmore. Stagecoach 69...

Paul


Thus proving that an "expert" knows more and more about less and less.

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"®i©ardo" wrote in message
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Paul Scott wrote:
"John B" wrote in message
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Stephen Firth wrote:

NM wrote:

D/D tend to be used in cities
Unfortunately this is not true.
Wrong.

Stagecoach tend to use DD buses for
rural routes.
Not in Hampshire.


Er yes they do, I was on one this morning between Bishops Waltham and
Swanmore. Stagecoach 69...

Paul
Thus proving that an "expert" knows more and more about less and less.

Quite possibly a DD would be programmed in to cater for the Swanmore school
pond-life. Obviously, that bus would then work back towards Winchester
later in the morning, very lightly loaded (unless all the grannies came out
with their free passes....)

John B wrote:

Stephen Firth wrote:

NM wrote:

D/D tend to be used in cities

Unfortunately this is not true.

Wrong.

No it's not, it's true. But I'm glad to see you're still a lying
****wit.

Stagecoach tend to use DD buses for
rural routes.

Not in Hampshire.

In Hampshire in particular. The majority of Stagecoach buses dumped on
the wasteground on industrial estates in Petersfield and on lay bys
along the A31 because Stagecoach are too ****ing mean to pay for a
garage are all double deckers.

The residents of all of the villages between Petersfield and Winchester
on the serpentine route traced by the virtualy unused 67 bus service are
used to being barged out of the way by "I don't give a ****: drivers of
DD buses.

Now **** off back in the killfile you retard.

On Mar 19, 1:13 pm, John B wrote:
Stephen Firth wrote:
NM wrote:

D/D tend to be used in cities

Unfortunately this is not true.

Wrong.

Stagecoach tend to use DD buses for
rural routes.

Not in Hampshire.

IIRC Stagecoach (and other operators) were given huge subsidies to
update their fleet within London. The buses that were replaced were
then moved all over the country to replace the ageing stock left over
from Stagecoach's various acquisitions. They even shipped some of them
out of the country to bolster the fleets of some of their other
operations.

Hence the ex-London double-deckers cropping up all over the country.

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Andy

"Andy Lord" wrote in message
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On Mar 19, 1:13 pm, John B wrote:
Stephen Firth wrote:
NM wrote:

D/D tend to be used in cities

Unfortunately this is not true.

Wrong.

Stagecoach tend to use DD buses for
rural routes.

Not in Hampshire.

IIRC Stagecoach (and other operators) were given huge subsidies to
update their fleet within London. The buses that were replaced were
then moved all over the country to replace the ageing stock left over
from Stagecoach's various acquisitions.

Almost right, so far. London, I beleive, set a maximum age for the buses
(Routenmasters excepted) , so the contractors had to supply newish buses for
London, As you say, they then cascaded the older buses down to places like
Hampshirte, who then cascaded their buses down to places like Cornwall...

They even shipped some of them
out of the country to bolster the fleets of some of their other
operations.

Not totally: the 6-wheel Megabuses operated by stagecoach originated in Hong
Kong, where a similar "maximum age" restriction was written into the
contracts. At £2000 each for shipping these from Hong Kong, plus the cost
of fitting heaters and demisters, these were cheap buses for stagecoach's
use in UK. (they complied otherwise with UK PCV construction regs).

Hence the ex-London double-deckers cropping up all over the country.
There is quite a movement of vehicles within the larger groups, from one
part of the country to another.... nothing new there, NBC were doing it in
the 1970s, swapping ECOC FLFs with Scottish bus group VRs.

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IanH

In article ,
(ian henden) wrote:

There is quite a movement of vehicles within the larger groups,
from one part of the country to another.... nothing new there, NBC
were doing it in the 1970s, swapping ECOC FLFs with Scottish bus
group VRs.

The VR gearboxes couldn't cope with the hills, I remember a bus fitter
telling me at the time.

--
Colin Rosenstiel

John B wrote:

Stephen Firth wrote:

NM wrote:

D/D tend to be used in cities
Unfortunately this is not true.

Wrong.

Stagecoach tend to use DD buses for
rural routes.

Not in Hampshire.

What tosh. Stop making things up, it does your position no good whatsoever.

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