LDN: specials on routes 246 [d/d] and 65

Hello,

In London today, we had two seperate special operation:

In the bromely area, route 246- normally operated by single decks-i.e. plaxton bodied 10.7m darts- was operated by double deck scanias- omindekka with east lancs bodies. the allocation is 4 and the occasion: Biggin Hill air show.

in the ealing area, route 65 had 10 extra buses running part of the route- on the occasion of the closure of the piccaddilly line because of engineering works.
there were 3 darts [the first ever to appear on the route by London United] and 4 VAs.
The VAs at FW garage are due to be replaced by Mid September by tridents made spare from the conversion of route 267 to Omindekka scanias [such as the one I show below].

regards

Yoram

我想問LU係唔係得呢隻OLYMPIAN
有冇ROYALE 0個隻?

[ref=362688]3AD110[/ref]  在 2005-9-7 01:37 發表:

我想問LU係唔係得呢隻OLYMPIAN
有冇ROYALE 0個隻?

回 3AD110 : 佢係英國人, 唔識中文o架!

Reply to yblumann, 3AD110 comes from HK,
as he doesn't know your hometown, so I
help him to ask you the question what he
types in Chinese words.

Does LU have any Royale bodywork Volvo
Olympian now? Thanks.

[ref=363465]a396[/ref]  在  12:15 AM 發表:


回 3AD110 : 佢係英國人, 唔識中文o架!

Reply to yblumann, 3AD110 comes from HK,
as he doesn't know your hometown, so I
help him to ask you the question what he
...

hey?
can you answer me,please?

sorry for the delay in replying- I was away on holiday till today!

London United does not have a Royale bodied volvo olympian in service. the ones they had in the past were sold to National Express for airport routes [A2] but they were withdrawn in 2004 and sold to operators around the UK.

regards

Yoram

[ref=369121]yblumann[/ref]  在  04:33 AM 發表:

sorry for the delay in replying- I was away on holiday till today!

London United does not have a Royale bodied volvo olympian in service. the ones they had in the past were sold to National Expr ...

oh! That means LU have the royale Volvo Olympian before?

London United bought about 20 Olys with Royale bodywork in 1995 for work on routes A1 & A2 between Heathrow Airport and central London. Those routes were 'commercial' routes- i.e. not part of the normal bus route network.
In 2004, the company decided to sell the airport routes to National Express, and the buses were sold to National Express. the reason was the opening of the Heathrow Express rail.

The only other operator in London to have Royale bodied Oly/volvos were London Central; 9 of those were bought for route P11, later changed to the 381. Those worked from PM garage, and appeared on the 12,36,63. They were sold in 2003/4.

Regards

Yoram