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The Cap a tan wrote:Those buses are there for rail replacement. I think it's a rail crossing removal project on the Sunbury/Bendigo line.
Ventura were doing rail replacement between Sunshine and Sunbury between Wednesday and Friday last week, alongside Sita and Dysons.

I saw a high floor Scania L113CRB/Volgren running a rail replacement trip at Sunbury on Friday morning, been a while since I'd seen one of them out.
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While on the bus passing Hallam notice their was an ex Leyland tiger
Bus still in blue liverly if I remember correctly it was ex# bus 2 the bus is
Parked in a factory just before Hallam station
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I may of found another past Ventura bus, on Gumtree, a 1979 Leyland Leopard bodied by Smithfield.

See https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/orange/ ... 1112404762

From the disposal section of the Ventura fleetlist, it would seem it would be this one:

94 FRW094 Leyland Leopard PSU3E/2R Smithfield SB816 10/79 B39D
ex APG794
MO 3101 LBJ Tours Wollongong, ex m/o 8952 Westway Bus & Coach, ex m/o 8952 Crossley Bus Lines

I remember this bus being a regular in taking me to high school in year 7. Was replaced that same year. Was quite a good Leopard too.
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Noticed Ventura has begun to refer to their Rosebud West depot as the Capel Sound depot on Twitter, reflecting the official renaming of the suburb in September 2016.

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Knox based 1243 is in an all over ad for Holmesglen Institute. Seen around Knox City in the past few days.

Saw this morning was Oakleigh based 1045, Volvo B7RLE on the 737, a quick consultation of the fleetlist revealed that 1045 has indeed been transferred to Knox in exhange for Scania 1056. This will probably mark the first time a B7RLE has operated on a full time basis from Knox, except for when 1068 was there for a short time for a trial of the security screens back in early 2015.
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Ventura Monbulk 1100 has been decommissioned
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Ventura Dandenong #46 B10M MK4 Volgren has been decommissioned.
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Seen this morning at Fountain Gate. Venturas Authorised Officers. Been a while since I've seen AO's direct from the company. Last time I saw this down here was when Grenda's had their own AO's a few years ago

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Over the past week Dandenong buses below have been decommissioned, stripped of useable parts and scrapped. It was my Job this week to strip them and it's disappointing to seem go.
#27 Volvo B10B Volgren
#46 Volvo B10M Volgren MK4
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ventura 1140 is now in naked white livery ex national bus livery
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Ventura #610 (Volvo B7RLE, Volgren) from Moorabbin depot is the latest to sport a retrofitted white LED desto. Reports suggest this was fitted about 3 weeks ago.

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Noticed on the fleetlist that there a couple of 0500LE's to be delivered, numbered 1295 and 1297.
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Spotted Ventura Moorabbin #510 (Mercedes Benz O405NH, Volgren) on the back of a tow-truck around 12:45pm this afternoon, waiting for a train at the McDonald St crossing in Mordialloc before continuing eastbound.

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Dandenong has received 292 back and 65 has gone back to Rosebud
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Done a bit of bus riding during my holidays this week.

Rode on new Scania K310UB 1299 yesterday with a mere 780 kms on the clock, also 1298 was spotted in service. I would imagine these two will replace the last 2 remaining L113CRL's at Knox, 819 and 1168, a driver mentioned at a changeover this morning that it was 819's last day in route service. The early L94UBs will most likely be the next on the retirement list.

The new batch of Mercedes 0500LE's have been spotted in service, by my father who has taken to bus riding in his retirement, who ended up in Dandenong yesterday.

Also going past the Ventura Oakleigh depot (on a 903 service) and saw 1156 in a new white paint job and lots of visiting buses including artics, presumably for rail replacement jobs.
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Not sure of the old fleet number but there's now a MkII for sale at a property in Balliang, at the intersection of Bacchus Marsh-Geelong Rd and Ballan Rd.

Looks to be in quite good condition.

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scott wrote:Done a bit of bus riding during my holidays this week.

Rode on new Scania K310UB 1299 yesterday with a mere 780 kms on the clock, also 1298 was spotted in service. I would imagine these two will replace the last 2 remaining L113CRL's at Knox, 819 and 1168, a driver mentioned at a changeover this morning that it was 819's last day in route service. The early L94UBs will most likely be the next on the retirement list.

The new batch of Mercedes 0500LE's have been spotted in service, by my father who has taken to bus riding in his retirement, who ended up in Dandenong yesterday.

Also going past the Ventura Oakleigh depot (on a 903 service) and saw 1156 in a new white paint job and lots of visiting buses including artics, presumably for rail replacement jobs.
#1169 is also being replaced and cascaded to the rail fleet, the visiting artics are at Oakleigh for Tram Replacement works on St Kilda Road
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Mitch wrote:Not sure of the old fleet number but there's now a MkII for sale at a property in Balliang, at the intersection of Bacchus Marsh-Geelong Rd and Ballan Rd.

Looks to be in quite good condition.

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I'm not sure if it has been previously noted but Ventura Seaford 440 (Scania L94UB Volgren CR224L) seen today with white LED desto in it
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Can someone please update fleetlist in regards to B7s that have moved from Dandenong and the training buses loosing there T / changed fleet numbers. Cheers
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Ventura are sending 4 buses to Papua New Guinea for use on Port Moresby services
https://www.busnews.com.au/industry-new ... ses-to-png


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Ventura Croydon #1166 (Scania L113CRL, Volgren) is now in an AOA for IXL jam, was seen heading north on Elgar Rd at 16:25 this afternoon after completing an afternoon school run from Yarra Valley Grammar to Main St / Canterbury Rd, Blackburn.

It previously promoted Mr Robot on Presto.

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Hi all,

Not sure if I was seeing things but I was around the RMIT Bundoora/Uni Hill shopping area today around 11am and I'm 99.99% sure I saw a Ventura Volgren Optimus coming from the Dysons Bundoora depot. It looked factory fresh with a number of 13?? possibly 1309 didn't take note of the fleet number besides the 13 start.
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Craig wrote:Ventura Croydon #1166 (Scania L113CRL, Volgren) is now in an AOA for IXL jam, was seen heading north on Elgar Rd at 16:25 this afternoon after completing an afternoon school run from Yarra Valley Grammar to Main St / Canterbury Rd, Blackburn.

It previously promoted Mr Robot on Presto.

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Was that a PTV run or a school charter run? Thought all the schools runs were meant to be seat belted?
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Craig wrote:Ventura Croydon #1166 (Scania L113CRL, Volgren) is now in an AOA for IXL jam
Could only be a good thing, its Presto AOA was starting look not only bad, but also outdated (Presto ceased earlier this year)
adrian wrote:Was that a PTV run or a school charter run? Thought all the schools runs were meant to be seat belted?
More than likely a PTV School run
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