Not much else to do on a miserable wet Wednesday afternoon, so thought I'd share some recent photos from my region.
As usual, some locals and some visitors. Hope you enjoy !
A recent find in Blackheath. I couldn't get close enough, nor game enough to try, to find an identity for this ex DGT Leyland.
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Former Transwa 8, Scania K124EB with Volgren coach body, is now 5341 AO with Pegasus in Sydney's west. Seen here at Springwood on recent trackwork duties.
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A familiar yet not familiar Scania Custom CB80 at Springwood Station. In this case its mo 014 of Punchbowl on trackwork replacement train duties. No doubt confused a few locals familiar to seeing an identical BM Transit vehicle.
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Train replacement always bring some interesting vehicles with it. One such example was former Greens TV 559, a Mercedes Benz 0303-3 with MCA body of 1994. Now in the Premier fleet.
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New to Telford's in late 2016 was TV 8720 (fleet 4001). One of two identical units to Telfords, with Scania K310IB chassis and Irizar i6 body. Both still in all white and were at Echo Point together when I captured this shot.
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Passing through Springwood is Charterplus TV989, a Volvo B12R, formely with Toronto.
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This is one of those photo's you look at later and say 'how the hell did I get that ?' I can't work it out - red, white, red, white !!
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Not yet appearing on fleet lists for Australia Wide is fleet 209, TV 9044 Scania Irizar i6 combination. Appears to be a second identical unit in the fleet.
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TV 8553 of Good Az Gold with a school group at Jenolan Caves in early 2017. This is shown in fleet listing as a BCI, formely with Nowra Coaches.
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Two of the Allstar Coaches fleet at Katoomba. Fleet 177 TV8763 a M-Benz 0500RF-3 with Irizar body, and fleet 133 TV8965, a Volvo B9R with Coach Concepts body of 2015.
5957 MO Scania of Blue Mountains Transit on a route 686 service returning to Katoomba from Echo Point.
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Representative of a number of identical new vehicles added to the Blue Mountains fleet over recent months is 3709 MO Volvo B7R with Volgren Optimus body. Having a rest at Springwood in this shot.
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Lithgow Buslines 6283 MO, a Mercedes Benz OH1830LE operating on Route 200 and on its way back to Lithgow.
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Also captured at Lithgow is Swan Hills Bus Lines BS02AV on Trainlink duties in early 2017. This unit is a M-Benz 0500RF with BCI body of 2016.
LB608 wrote:2673 moved to Blackheath 10/2016,2309 moved to megalong Valley for your records
Can't say I've come across either of those - any clues where (pm) otherwise I'll keep an eye out for them in my travels.
Always looking for a reason to head down into the Megalong Valley.
Centralian,
Great coverage as always my friend - always something making an appearance in the mountains.The boys having a lunch on next month - will let you know the details shortly
