A weekend rail track closure from Rosewood and Springfield Central to Corinda provided an opportunity to cruise down the Ipswich Motorway on the top deck of a double decker, with Thompson’s using their 2 Volvo Volgren Optimus buses as an express service between Ipswich and Corinda. Normally these buses are on charter or school runs.
Attachments
tompsonsGJT058IpswichTim3032019.JPG (223.86 KiB) Viewed 6566 times
Lower deck is wheel chair accessible and has a level aisle floor to the back seat. The centre door is double leaf.
thompsonsGJT058lowerdeckCorinda3032019.JPG (290.16 KiB) Viewed 6566 times
Looking down on the staircase which has an easy gradient to access the top deck.
thompsonsGJT058Ipswich3march2019staircase.JPG (165.07 KiB) Viewed 6566 times
A view of the top deck looking towards the back. Plenty of leg room between the seats. No adverts over the windows so you can see out. A bus height of 4.4 metres gives good head room on both decks.
thompsonsGJT058topdeckcorinda3032019.JPG (265.7 KiB) Viewed 6566 times
059 GJT at Ipswich photographed in Oct 2017 before the bull bar was fitted.
ThompsonDD059GJTIpswich22oct2017.JPG (256.34 KiB) Viewed 6566 times
058 GJT at Bell Street Ipswich
thompsonsGJT058Ipswich3march2019.JPG (264.49 KiB) Viewed 6566 times
The photo of 059 GJT was taken in Oct 2017 when a kangaroo bar was not fitted. They were both running last weekend but I was unable to get a shot of 059 GJT. See photo caption.