Kinetic Group fleet changes Australia/New Zealand

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Re: Kinetic Group fleet changes Australia/New Zealand

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New entry for Molendinar: 1011, XC02CK. Another MAN GBV.

Sidenote: who's updating the fleet lists for Queensland? There's a bunch of new entries missing and I would really love to see those gaps fixed.
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mondegola wrote: Tue May 12, 2026 1:34 pm New entry for Molendinar: 1011, XC02CK. Another MAN GBV.

Sidenote: who's updating the fleet lists for Queensland? There's a bunch of new entries missing and I would really love to see those gaps fixed.
they are slow, so other fleetlist they do here is
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ ... 1365122002
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Are there any fleet numbers available for the Tweed Volvo B8R's - 2426MO, 2427MO, 2429MO, 2437MO and 2440MO. Presumed to be Volgren Endura's.
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New Tweed B8R’s are numbered 297, 298, 299.. spotted but couldn’t match rego’s, surely off to restart the 500/600’s next ;)
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254 is out of service for a month due of the accident.
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Another Cyan and white Translink for 674.
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Update time from the sunshine coast

On the weekend we saw the arrival of the first three out of 21 buses from volgren on a Volvo chassis’s buses will all be delivered to Caloundra for final inspection but all 21 vehicles will be based at Noosa depot, full fleet number will b 5777 to 5798.

The first three are fleet numbers 5787,5788,5789

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Currumbin’s 100 - BYD Volgren will be out for some time due to being involved in a recent M1 crash.
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Bus 5641 Xdi arrived back from coastal in the new translink colours and 5640 is now on GC for same treatment
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356, XDI now painted white
618, VST now new translink livery
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1111 (MB Sprinter CDI) from Murwillumbah has been transferred to Molendinar for On Demand operations. Rego is XC36BB.
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1009 rego XC 00CK
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mondegola wrote: Fri Jun 27, 2025 8:21 pm Lachlan has a list of their own with the regos of all new GBVs: https://aew.freosanstudios.com/w/index. ... old_Coast)

The fleet list still has some MAN VSTs missing in there as well which have been reported on previous posts in this thread.
For the past few days, the freosanstudios fleet lists have not come up on my searches.
Is it me & my computer?
Advice valued, thanks.
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1010 now in service. MAN GBV, rego is XC01CK for Coomera.
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BusPlaneTrainTram wrote: Thu May 28, 2026 4:03 pm
For the past few days, the freosanstudios fleet lists have not come up on my searches.
Is it me & my computer?
Advice valued, thanks.
It's undergoing a server upgrade, that's why it is down. Not sure when it will be back up
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Lachlan-Conley-102 wrote: Thu May 28, 2026 6:20 pm
BusPlaneTrainTram wrote: Thu May 28, 2026 4:03 pm
For the past few days, the freosanstudios fleet lists have not come up on my searches.
Is it me & my computer?
Advice valued, thanks.
It's undergoing a server upgrade, that's why it is down. Not sure when it will be back up
Thanks Lachlan.
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How many more GBVs are expected to be delivered to the Kinetic Gold Coast fleet? I assume there will be more over the next year as they withdraw more single door Bustech B12BLE’s.
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1008 is XC50AU, Molendinar.
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Update from SC

More Volvo volgrens have arrived - 5790,5791,5792,5793,5794 and 5777 which in fact is a MAN
Volgrens already here are 5787,5788,5789

The word is that ten could going to Marcoola depot and eleven giong to Noosa depot waiting to here comfermation
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SunSkySurf09 wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 4:14 pm Update from SC

More Volvo volgrens have arrived - 5790,5791,5792,5793,5794 and 5777 which in fact is a MAN
Volgrens already here are 5787,5788,5789

The word is that ten could going to Marcoola depot and eleven giong to Noosa depot waiting to here comfermation
How many GBV MAN's are there going to be compared to the Volgren B8's? I'm hoping there is more GBV's then Volgrens personally...
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Do we know when the SC volgrens will enter service SunSkySurf? I'll have to try and get a ride on the MAN too.
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Lachlan-Conley-102 wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 7:38 pm
SunSkySurf09 wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 4:14 pm Update from SC

More Volvo volgrens have arrived - 5790,5791,5792,5793,5794 and 5777 which in fact is a MAN
Volgrens already here are 5787,5788,5789

The word is that ten could going to Marcoola depot and eleven giong to Noosa depot waiting to here comfermation
How many GBV MAN's are there going to be compared to the Volgren B8's? I'm hoping there is more GBV's then Volgrens personally...
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Re: Kinetic Group fleet changes Australia/New Zealand

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Looks like the end is close for a some of the old SC fleet?

5711, 5712, 5713, 5714, 5715, 5717, 5718, 5719, 5726, 5729 and 5736 have all progressively disappeared from real time tracking within a week or two of each other.

Initially I thought it was just the usual real time issues that seem to be plaguing Kinetic but it can't be a coincidence that all the 2005/2006 units are suddenly dropping off.

Remaining units still seem to be in action including 5709.
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Re: Kinetic Group fleet changes Australia/New Zealand

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SunSkySurf09 wrote: Wed Jun 03, 2026 4:14 pm Update from SC

More Volvo volgrens have arrived - 5790,5791,5792,5793,5794 and 5777 which in fact is a MAN
Volgrens already here are 5787,5788,5789

The word is that ten could going to Marcoola depot and eleven giong to Noosa depot waiting to here comfermation
Thanks SunSkySurf09 - are there any registrations yet please?
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