For those who want to see some other pics of this bus, i finally got some pics in the dash and interior since the last time i saw it at Hartfield Park in Forrestfield for an interschool soccer carnival a month ago. Since this is an actual school bus, 2x2 coach style seating with seat-belts is imple...

I sampled the 760 in the early afternoon and 12 pax boarded at Cranbourne with half getting off in the Carrum Downs area after turning off Hall Road with a couple more exiting on Ballarto Road and the remaining 4 going to Seaford, 3 stayed on the bus to go to the Seaford shops. Not the travel patter...

The Bendy and the Mark IV were caught up in a failed extremely ambitious museum/cropping venture down Drouin way, note the CH plates on the bendy and the mark IV, IIRC there was a dispute over storage fees owing and access was denied to the 4 buses, I'm unsure if the other 2 buses were part of the m...

Qube's Maryvale Freight is the only regular Freight service running into Gippsland, hits Pakenham on the up around 1 PM, it was on the V/line corporate site but the network access plan seems to have been taken down, form memory the down service leaves the City around 7PM or so, the Facebook Train Tr...

2 of the 3 Bairnsdale trains are now standard Vlocities, no snack bar no first class carriage, no reserved seating, not sure the locals are impressed, but time will tell what transpires

I read somewhere Paccar are now building DAFs in Australia at their Bayswater plant.

It seems the "bridge has been fixed" and "they do care about the east" if sending Vlocity DMUs there is considered caring: https://www.vline.com.au/News-Alerts/News-Articles/VLocity-trains-to-Bairnsdale The VLocity day was held today at Bairnsdale with a standard set, not the greatest for the full ...

Has anyone seen the fine print in the new offer? It appears as if it is for 7 years and then? Up for tender? Doesn't appear to be any mention of another roll over of the contracts. It also appears as if the PTV and Government have their heads in the sand over fare evasion which is rife on buses from...

Superior built a number of buses for what is now known as Special Needs contracts, however it appears as if very few photographed or recorded their existance.

I spent a few days on King Island last week. The King Island fleet list which covers all operators on the island only lists five buses. I managed to get photos of four buses, none of which are listed - two of them four wheel drives to tour the southern end of the island. With the size of the group ...

maxy54 wrote:

BW44YS wrote:#23 and #24 you’s reported as same Regos

#23 is 486 XXI

another source reports 486XXI as #24

I wrote down the rego of this one as XAZ 551 but according to the fleet list that is Aust Wide Tours XAZ 551 Autobus - GM Series 60 6T9P05AAL40CYH001 Autobus 2004 C49T ex (28) XAZ 551 Bute Buses, Bute S.A. But the livery looks like Grants Can anyone help out? Did I get the rego wrong? XAZ 551 hadn'...

also Ventura introduced live tracking on routes operated by the Ivanhoe(Heidelberg West)Depot http://venturabus.com.au/ivanhoe-live-t ... ce-routes/

The Denning Phoenix/CC buses have been advertised for sale. I too,noted 2 in service on the Pakenham line rail assisting Ventura. Some of them have been helping out on Transdev routes over the last few days and also during the last week or so of Term 3. The Volgren demo was actually a B12BLE which ...

How do we know they are not taking any action? I think PTV would prefer to see the services operated by another operator rather than not at all. Given the lack of announcements about fines and the fact that the bus shortage and service reliability issues has worsened over the four years that Transd...

Warragul Bus Lines have another Scania/Express low floor 2098AO in PTV livery

busboy wrote:I believe You can run the bus that way.
The operators Accreditation number must be displayed to identify who is actually operating the bus, and is responsible for the maintenance etc.

Transdev have not displayed a current accreditation number since day 1

Following a trend begun in NSW where Punchbowl took over Goulburn B.S. and Forest have now acquired two operations around Coffs Harbour. Not to mention Busways having taken over all those North Coast towns that were ruined by the King bros. Surely the granddaddy of that would be JA Gilbert (now the...

Timetables are starting to appear, with all current Warragul Timetables now having a note as being effective until 13/5/2017 including Poowoong, Pakenham to Traralgon, Moe and Gippstafe, Yallourn, there being no sign at this stage of new TTs for those routes, although the new TTs are being put up bi...

The only school service originates from French Island with the first service from Cowes departing at 0835 and arriving at Stony Point at 0920, way too late for any school on the mainland. There is a handful of kids on the Island who commute to Secondary Schools on the 0730 service from French Island...

can any one tell what the differnt leteers on the elwoods stand. e.g.Elwood HBA.what does the leteers afther elwood stand for :?: I don't have the answer re the model codes, apart from maybe H for high floor, the second letter denoted the year the chassis was built - i.e. A = 1982, H = 1989, and th...

3350 was the first one, last reported as being scrapped, clearly not!
3511, however was in fact numerically the 13th, although 3506, the 12th was burnt out on it's maiden trip.

Word is as of today Transdev are now performing planned replacement services for Metro on the Cragieburn line following Kastoria's withdrawl from their Metro Trains contract, Kastoria will continue to provide emergency replacement vehicles.

Warragul Bus Lines Scania/Express units 2010AO & 2015AO have joined the 'orange army'

The International is an AA184 or AA180 model IIRC.
The Bedford VAM70 with an Ansair body in the third photo was owned by C.M.& H.A.Taylor of South Plympton, being acquired from Organs of Kyneton(Vic.)