ah not 1555, one of my favorites

Anyway, mystery of whereabouts of 7727 MO (One of the Custom "550's" can be put to rest, it's sitting stored at the back of Thornton CDC Depot, likely already deregistered and a parts source for remaining O405's in the fleet.

Transferred to regional CDC NSW Volvo B10BLE CB60 m/o 1094 out on revenue run 140 to Newcastle Intg currently, some may say not really worthy of an observation although very rare to see an 23 year old bus in the CDC regional operations doing revenue runs.

Hopefully not too late to add some more predictions Transport again (Can't get enough of these) 2026 - 2030 It's announced the two Newcastle ferries (Hunter & Shortland) will be retired (by 2030 they will be around the 40 years of age mark). Tenders are then opened by TNSW to sought replacements...

Minor predictions (Predictions that have a very low chance of occurring but could still possibly happen) Hunter Valley Buses trials a Custom Endevour on a Volvo B8RLE chassis but makes no purchases & sticks with Volgren as preferred bus body. On demand bus transport becomes available in the Mai...

Drove past the Edgeworth Graveyard on the weekend, noted off the top of my head there's two of those older Mercedes with the so called "Volgren NZ" bodywork (3575 and 3576 MO), also whatever was remaining left of the Volvo B6LE's from Thornton. I also saw a Scania K230UB (noted as a K230UB...

I believe that has changed with the new tranche of contracts being offered - most operators are now forced to use the so-called 'electric bus' seat moquette on their new vehicles, even if they are not electric (e.g. Transit Systems' 3 Volvo B8L Gemilang Eco vehicles and KDNB's 3 new MAN ND323F Gemi...

Edwards Coaches (Armidale) is in possession of an Yutong ZK6137 2023 Electric Coach registered as 1194 MO, not sure if this is a Demonstrator unit or not (is in NSW electric bus scheme livery). Information Courtesy of Australasian Bus & Coach.

It all boils down to TfNSW's longstanding poor capability for procuring the best vehicles/vessels/designs/suppliers for the job. sadly of which was done and precured under the previous government. I really don't think members of the public are all too keen to see this finger pointing, Instead they ...

And so I dig up this Newcastle thread regarding our regions very beloved 2.7KM light rail network, The recent Newcastle Herald article exposes the ongoing issues surrounding CAF LRV 2155, which has been out of service for almost two years and already mentioned to being "salvaged for parts"...

On another observation, I noticed Fleet-lists has a new addition for Sid-Foggs Fullerton Cove TV 409B, I may have spotted this new coach parked up at the back of a warehouse in Rutherford (Same place I've been seeing coaches occasionally randomly pop up and then eventually vanish including some from...

I wonder if any will be game to take them on in the preservation scene now that retirement is looming? Not 100% sure if it is in preservation yet but NKV tours already has a few of the ex Newcastle B12's (and former m/o 1407 that was dereg for parts) Sydney Bus Museum has government bus day upcomin...

Appears former Randwick Scania L113CRL m/o 3699 has resurfaced with a new owner in Melbourne under the registration of BS06DF Credit has to go Melbourne Transport Youtuber Tazzie who recently got a ride on this bus, It has lost the blue & white colour scheme having been given a plain white paint...

The Kebab place I went to yesterday on my work-break that took my payment for a chicken snack-pack to only then inform me after I paid (via card) that they ran out of chicken meat, I'm not joking. Why can staff not communicate anymore and pass the message on prior to someone ordering that their out ...

Diggers has another Mercedes-Benz Bus in their Fleet not yet on Fleet-lists, an 2002 OH1621 ABM Starliner "3" ex Christian's Bus Company, Bacchus Marsh (Formally #748, 7048 AO)

Registered TV 254B

Doesn't really help either that Ebusco outside of certain European markets isn't really a well known brandname and would take a lot to build up a reputation here and compete with Scania & Volvo. After the 2022 Bus & Coach Expo it seemed everything in terms of development for them here really...

Another international brand closes up operations in Australia, EBusco

https://www.busnews.com.au/ebusco-annou ... perations/

Wonder what became of the demonstrator model that was touring the Bus Expo two years back.

My guess is this is either BCI or Yutong although I suspect It in the long run it will appear to be Yutongs we'll be seeing as Transit Systems already operates them, although as an electric variant as part of their ZEB fleet. on top of that, It does make perfect sense to order from an brand one woul...

Mobile applications that for some blase reason auto-sign you out of your logged in accounts after a period of time, even if you have the remember me box ticked (which just means every time upon relaunching the application your signed back in without needing to enter your password) So far my Return &...

No photos however the bus was spotted in Cessnock this morning, Rego SSJ000, appears to be a 1997 Volvo B12 Alan B Denning Galaxy, however with an unknown operator, nothing comes up in fleet-lists for the last 4 Digits of this VIN nor SSJ000, any idea who this belongs too including previous operator...

With the bus service that more or less parallels the railway line operating only hourly, is there really any demand? As Tonyp pointed out, the existing bus service is only Hourly & less on weekends which wouldn't motivate many people to catch it into Maitland, If then a Cessnock to Newcastle In...

Parliament petitioned to buy old mine line to revive commuter service to Cessnock https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/8556795/cessnock-rail-revival-proposal/?cs=7573 A petition signed by almost 3000 people has been presented to Parliament requesting that the state government acquire the disused...

Why does Channel 9 and its spinoffs (Gem etc.) keep advertising religious nutjobs as soon as the sun goes down? Not even 7 stoops that low, instead they spam infomercials about ear wax, and 7 is the worst FTA in Australia (thankfully Sky isn't free). FTA is as dead to me as is dial-up Internet in t...

I don't collect replica models anymore outside of the newer Transit Graphics / Ozbus releases (Mainly due to space / storage concerns) or what is a local replica model (in other words, something that operated once upon a time in my region) but still do like seeing what comes up on Ebay and marketpla...

Apparently there was a red Sydney Explorer O305 Trux model that just sold on Ebay for around $60, lucky score to whoever picked up that as I've previously seen that model going for $150 tops. And the gold one too! https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/126378198366?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=705-154756-200...

He passed away? :( I understand that and who will maintain everything now Time will tell as always in due course. It also depends if anyone has the resources and knowledge to maintain the backend of the board. I don't think Fleet-lists would want all he has done & created not only for himself b...