Bustech VST

Set Down Only · Post by **Set Down Only** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:00 pm

Can anyone who reads this forum that has pics of the Bustech VST bodied buses please send them to me. I am particularly interested in the 'middled door ones.
All colour schemes possible
Thanks

bunza · Post by **bunza** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:23 pm

Here's something from the home of the VST!

728 at Helensvale Town Centre resting while the driver grabs some lunch

735 at Australia Fair on its way to either a meal break, or back home.

Though not two doors, this is the shot my avatar is based on - 870 also at Australia Fair commencing a route 5 to Coombabah. Rumour is this route will be renumbered 714 and be extended to Paradise Point when the remaining inland routes are "Translinkified".

All are Volvo B12BLE's. Some of the more "professional" photographers might be able to provide a few more shots. In the meantime, do a search and you've find a wide array of VST shots from around the country.

Then, of course, there's this shot: http://www.busaustralia.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=16386

B7RLE · Post by **B7RLE** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:26 pm

In the second photo what does it say on the side desto.

bunza · Post by **bunza** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 7:43 pm

Exactly the same as the front desto: "NOT IN SERVICE"

It displayed perfectly, its just that my camera doesn't really like LED screens, haven't quite worked out why. At a guess I'd say it may be due to an AC current powering the display, and the LED's flicker on and off too quick for our eyes to notice.

Same thing happened in this shot:

member 1423 · Post by **member 1423** » Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:32 pm

bunza wrote:It displayed perfectly, its just that my camera doesn't really like LED screens, haven't quite worked out why. At a guess I'd say it may be due to an AC current powering the display, and the LED's flicker on and off too quick for our eyes to notice.

That sounds about right. A slower shutter speed usually solves this

bunza · Post by **bunza** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 12:41 am

Thanks for the tip, I take it that it works better in lower light due to the increased shutter speed.

I'll have a play with the priorities and see how I go - I can try it out on the Main Roads message board down the street from me that I've never been able to get a picture of.

B7RLE · Post by **B7RLE** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 6:28 am

and the some times it turns out all right like this photo i took at dandenong station

Set Down Only · Post by **Set Down Only** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:10 am

What Surfside bus numbers have middle doors?

bunza · Post by **bunza** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 11:20 am

721-735 are the only VST's to have middle doors and side destos, they've only been delivered this year.

Theres a few other buses here and there in the fleet that have middle doors.

08 XDi · Post by **08 XDi** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 7:13 am

About a third of the Surfside fleet has middle doors, for the most part jack-knife or single-leaf glideaway doors.

All O400's except 621 and all O405's except 605 have them, all CC550 bodied O405NH's too, and a bunch of other miscellaneous older Volvos and Mercs. They also converted quite a few second-hand buses to single door only when they got them.

613 is the only bus of which I'm aware that has an actual rear door as opposed to a centre door.

None of the Bustech low floors (i.e. the generation before the VST) have them except 619, which was inherited from another operator and is laid out more like a Custom Coaches 550.

They have gone back to single entrance VST buses now from 736 onwards, unless that was only a one-off.

Post by **Daniel** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 4:26 pm

SM247 wrote: ...except 619, which was inherited from another operator and is laid out more like a Custom Coaches 550.

Unsure about the interior, but this was inherited (probably around July/Aug of 2000) from Carbridge from its Sydney Airport bus operations.

08 XDi · Post by **08 XDi** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:39 am

619 has only 5 seats in the wheelchair area and doesn't have the symmetrical seating layout on the other Bustechs, plus the interior panelling is yellow instead of blue (i.e. not VST blue everything, but O405NH blue panelling and yellow fittings)