3 axle vehicles from Brisbane

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Norbert
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3 axle vehicles from Brisbane

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Here are some 3 axle vehicles.

1. Scania K310UB 14.5m rear steer 1701, after being shown off at the Bus Station.
2. Volvo B10M MkIII artic [Austral] 380 and Volvo B10M MkII artic [Volgren] 980 at Browns Plains in the rain, both on route 142
3. Logans Volvo B12BLEA artics 117 on an inbound trip to the City and 116, on an outbound trip to Logan Hyperdome, both on route 555. Logans only have two artics.
4. MAN NG313 artic [Custom Coaches] 1627 at the City on route 111
5. Volvo B10M MkII artic [Volgren] 980 at the City on route 130
6. Volvo B10M MkIII artic [Austral] 379 at the City on route 130
7. MAN NG313 artic [Custom Coaches] 1625 at Roma St on route 111 with the XPT seen, about to depart for Sydney
8. MAN NG313 artic [Custom Coaches] 1629 at Calamvale on route 129 in the rain and almost dark
9. Volvo B10M MkII artic [Volgren] 981 at Drewdale operating special back to the depot after finishing a route 130
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Post by Herbert »

Fantastic shots, as usual! Bliss for a rear-steer fetishist. The first shot, of 1701, is spectacular & shows the geometry of the two steerable axles beautifully. Thanks!
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I thought the rear whel was just ready to fall off! :P
Or that the driver had hit a gutter and bent it out of alignment. :shock:
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Post by Volvo B12BLEA »

Great pics Norbert.
Both of Logan City Bus Service Artics in the one shot.....excellent work.
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Is the turning circle difference quite noticable with rear steer?
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Grenda Driver wrote:Is the turning circle difference quite noticable with rear steer?
The tag axle serves 2 purposes. It steers of course, but doesnt assist all as much as one would think it would like on a mid powered artic. Its moreso to relieve forces on the tag when turning, these forces tend to want to move the axle left or right when turning a corner and aswell as to prevent the tyres on said axle from scurbbing out quickly, from being basically 'dragged' across the road. For example: Hornibrooks 14.5's would go through a lot more tag axle tyres, and would require more maintainence on said axle from considerable more lateral forces being applied to them vs BT's steerable ones.
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Excellent pic's Norbert.. Nice varirety of buses, well done :D

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Brilliant photo of the rear-steer 14.5 Scania, thanks.
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Post by Dazza'zBusOneLiners »

You misleading bi@ch..! :lol: I was thinking 'you beauty, local coaches!'... :x But I guess I would NEVER have come here if you's said 'council artic's' or something... :lol:

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Re: 3 axle vehicles from Brisbane

Post by TheLoneGunMan »

Hi All,

I like what they have done at Roma St, walk straight off the XPT onto a bus. I'll have to visit to check it out for myself.
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Post by davemail66 »

You certainly take some top photos there Norbert, favourites for me are 3rd pic 116 passing 117 @ LCBS - artics Custom Coaches "CB60 Evo II" and your 7th pic showing BT's G1625 at Roma Street station with the NSW's CountryLink XPT on platform 1.
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Nice photos, what a shot of both of the logan city bus service CB60 EVO II's custom coaches in the same place, and some nice photos of the Man NG313 Artics aswell and also some nice pics of the volvo B1OM MK III Artics aswell
Waiting to see what BT, LCBS and other artics I get on next
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Great shots, very nice buses, i especially like the Volvo B12BLEA artic bus.
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