A selection of images from my travels locally in the Blue Mountains and a bit beyond over the last few months.
As usual a few locals and some of the more interesting visitors. Hope you enjoy.
Displaying a new livery variation and some front panel changes is Blue Mountains Transit 3755 MO. MAN 22.370 Austral Pacific 'Majestic' body of 1998 build. Valley Heights depot. Note the 'motivational' signage above the 5 km speed limit sign - " serve your community"
100.jpg (102.73 KiB) Viewed 4565 times
Parked outside Katoomba depot is Blue Mountains Transit 3706 MO, a Volvo B7RLE with Volgren Optimus body of 2015.
101.jpg (189.79 KiB) Viewed 4565 times
1083 MO at Newmans Bathurst is this Hino RK250 with an ABM 'Starliner 11' body of 2003.
102.jpg (135.45 KiB) Viewed 4565 times
Still in active service after some 30 years is TV 6452 a Denning Landseer accredited to Griffiths of Oberon (also trading as Oberon Mini Bus Service). Originally Deluxe 97.
103.jpg (145.1 KiB) Viewed 4565 times
Another Denning Landseer and annual visitor to the Blue Mountains is this unit of Marrara Christian College in Darwin. NT rego 997 666. Since I last saw it now has an all white livery.
104.jpg (144.39 KiB) Viewed 4565 times
One also gets to spot some number plate variety. This Marcopolo unit accredited to X.Chen of Beverley Park carries a new Victorian Accredited Bus Service plate BS05ZV.
105.jpg (129.31 KiB) Viewed 4565 times
Laying over outside Katoomba Station a week ago was Railmotor 621 (power car) with 721 attached. On loan to the Rail Motor Society. Just managed the one shot and then my camera battery died.
106.jpg (192.25 KiB) Viewed 4565 times
Not quite as old as the earlier Landseer is TV 694 of Burke's Coaches. Originally with Rendall of Dubbo this MAN 22.280 has a Custom Coaches Hyliner body of 1988. Captured at Scenic World.
107.jpg (172.48 KiB) Viewed 4565 times
TV 6124 a Volvo B13R with Coach Design body ( 2011 build) of Kennedy, South Nowra - captured at Echo Point.
108.jpg (165.25 KiB) Viewed 4565 times
TV 3045 of Travelon (Kel Enterprises P/L of Ingleburn) is this Volvo B10M with Volgren Qld body of 1987. Seating layout is recorded as LC51/9FT - one of the more interesting fleet list entries.
109.jpg (151.06 KiB) Viewed 4565 times
Last edited by Centralian on Mon Oct 03, 2016 12:42 pm, edited 1 time in total.
A few Iveco Delta visitors to finish off this postcard:
Coastal Liner of Warnervale visited Scenic World with a few units, including 7637 MO. Iveco Delta with Custom Coaches SB50 body of 2013.
110.jpg (148.03 KiB) Viewed 4556 times
Rover Motors 7759 MO - Fleet 34 and in TNSW colours - is this Iveco Delta with Custom Coaches SB50 body of 2014.
111.jpg (97.62 KiB) Viewed 4556 times
Both Irizar bodied Iveco Deltas of Rover were at Scenic World. Captured here is Fleet C5 - TV 8509 with Irizar Century body shown as 2016 build in the fleet listings.
112.jpg (92.02 KiB) Viewed 4556 times
Cheers !
Last edited by Centralian on Mon Oct 03, 2016 3:32 pm, edited 2 times in total.
While a few existed in their peak period, the lower lounge seating style and its recording as LC51/9FT is rare these days. I do know now from the fleet lists that this vehicle had its Volvo engine replaced with a Cummins which explained the reference to that on the rear of the vehicle. Nothing else special about it to my knowledge.
Centralian wrote:While a few existed in their peak period, the lower lounge seating style and its recording as LC51/9FT is rare these days. I do know now from the fleet lists that this vehicle had its Volvo engine replaced with a Cummins which explained the reference to that on the rear of the vehicle. Nothing else special about it to my knowledge.
From what I remember seeing,some Twin Decks had 5 seats and a galley unit downstairs.The total seating capacity was 52.Briscoe's Coaches had 2. Most of the others had 9 seats downstairs.Across Australia Coachlines had 2 of them.I dont know whether there were any other variations built. I guess some were repowered.Greyhound and Stateliner were known to have swapped engines and gearboxes in there Adelaide based Twin Decks.
Lower deck seating in TV3045, 5 facing forward 4 looking at the back, space for stair access (and toilet) on NS, have driven both this and TV694, when Bronzewing (Tahmoor) had it after Manly.
Seating was changed by Bronzewing to a 3 / 2 set up for school charters.
TV 3045 when I drove it was 45 recliners upstairs and 9 in the lower section. It was then reseated to fixed coach seats with 52 and 9; making it a 61 seater. Later it was re-engined with a Cummins.
