Surfside Fleet Changes March '09

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one of the PMCs is yet to be painted.

Not sure about 456-8 and 777-9, will find out next week.

[Bustech Boy]

468 is yet to be painted. It being the last PMC in blue and white.
899 is running out of Earnest depot.
858 and 813 are running out of Tweed depot.

[kurn]

was told that there will be a shuffle of busses between tweed and ernest this weekend. keep an eye out cause aparently about 12 will be changing depots.

i also hear that there are more going off the road at tweed.

rumor is
864
523
681

will confirm when i can

[Bustech Boy]

Thanks for the update Kurn.
Will be out tomorrow so i will keep an eye out.
Hopefully we might get more low floor bustechs for NSW.
Good to see that more older buses being withdrawn.

[B7RLE92]

i saw 672 on a ernest school run in coomera

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732 lost it's AOA

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i can confirm 864 is going to be scrapped.
appears to be out of service for quite a while now.
679 is still in service... it is in disposal list.
looking forward to the big changes.......

[08 XDi]

858 is now at Ernest (if it was ever reallocated on a permanent basis).

487 gen is - VIN 6T9P05AAL8073J050, body 08/148, build 09/08

[kurn]

ok here we go.

864
681
523
423

all removed from service.

653
693
811
605

transfered to ernest

679 is aparently going to become the new twin towns bus so it need to come out of disposals

not sure if they are here permanently but have seen 641 and 583 at tweed depot
also hearing 583 go past it sounds like it has a cat engine, not a hino. can any1 confirm this?

more to follow as i find out more

[Bustech Boy]

Real shame to see 693 653 811 and 605 moved to earnest depot i really loved these buses.
Any others moved to tweed

[kurn]

nothing has come down to replace them that i can see.
looks like a thinning out of tweed

[superbossgc]

Saw XDi 300 and 306 at south surfers next to crown towers.

[B7RLE92]

don't forget that i stated that 672 is up at ernest

[08 XDi]

Gen updates from today's fishing trip

793 - VIN YV3R6K6238A125463, body 07/123, build 05/08
445 - VIN 6T9P05AAL8073J076, body 08/139, build 12/08

[Bustech Boy]

The next batch of XDI's will be allocated to Tweed depot. More depot reallocations noted this week including units 749 761 and 762 allocated to NSW work. 830 and 814 have returned to Translink services after being on NSW work. NSW are to recieve more Vst's as they are fitted with security cameras. 657 is now based at Tweed depot. 747 is currently at Tweed depot maybe just for a transfer time will tell.

[08 XDi]

Gen updates:

304 - VIN 6T9P05AAL9073J009, body 08/094, build 01/09. Up until this point, the VINs and body numbers for the new fronted XDis had all been in fleet number sequence for a while, this is out of sequence a tad.

479 - VIN 6T9P05AAL8073J042, build 09/08, body to come - unfortunately not so easy to grab this one at night unless you have a helpful driver.

[B7RLE92]

819 is also up at ernest on it this morning

[kurn]

more tweed buses removed from service today

501
512
515
538

tigers may all be gone soon at this rate.

[08 XDi]

more tweed buses removed from service today

501
512
515
538

tigers may all be gone soon at this rate.

Sad news, 501 is one of Surfside's grandest old Custom Coaches bodied buses. The average plastic content just keeps rising.