General - Auckland (Part 3)

stadt80 · Post by **stadt80** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 8:58 am

It appears that Ritchies also have on loan "Uzabus" ( Madge Coachlines ) #552 - Volvo B7LE/Kiwi, spotted on Western line Rail Replacement services yesterday, Destination signs displaying "Ritchies".

LB608 · Post by **LB608** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 10:32 am

Orbiter Was working the Southern Line

Petenz · Post by **Petenz** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 5:40 pm

: Ex Orbiter, now Airport Transfers; Airport (Medium).jpg (72.81 KiB) Viewed 3965 times

Petenz · Post by **Petenz** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 5:43 pm

: New for Ritchies at Albany Depot is 342.; 342 (Medium).jpg (60.21 KiB) Viewed 3966 times

Lifehouse · Post by **Lifehouse** » Mon Jul 18, 2011 6:57 pm

Good Photos petenz

I'm very surprised Leopard sold leopard 22 as they don't have alot of orbiter painted buses on the Orbiter route >.<. Leopard are usually forced to put Leopard Urban Cats and Mega Movers on the route.

stadt80 · Post by **stadt80** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:12 am

Spotted NZ Bus "bendy" #2014 in Metrolink livery with "Waka Pacific" decals on a route 328 this morning. Replacement for #2008?

LB608 · Post by **LB608** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 10:32 am

Rail replacements This morniing due to freight train brake down Between Manurewa & Homi it was there for 3 hours ,Orbiter & murphys

kaiwhara · Post by **kaiwhara** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 12:08 pm

Ive been at Otahuhu all day and I didn't see either operator. Just Urban Express and Howick and Eastern.

Post by **Vitalstatistix** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:06 pm

Are there any Orbiters up in Auckland over the school holidays?

Also who now owns ex Leopard 22?

LB608 · Post by **LB608** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 3:26 pm

i worked a orbiter bus at 1105am this morning from papakura to britomart along with 2 murphys Buses 3buses for the train ,one went to Britomart (orbiter) one murphys to newmarket & one all stops to otahuhu.

Petenz · Post by **Petenz** » Tue Jul 19, 2011 6:51 pm

Leopard still own 22 through Bus Travel - ex Greg Paul - will probably get renumbered tho.

kaiwhara · Post by **kaiwhara** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 8:18 am

Hmmm seems a bit strange, We had been running trains again for an hour and a half by that stage...

LB608 wrote:i worked a orbiter bus at 1105am this morning from papakura to britomart along with 2 murphys Buses 3buses for the train ,one went to Britomart (orbiter) one murphys to newmarket & one all stops to otahuhu.

LB608 · Post by **LB608** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:37 am

strange have You forgetten about the 5 car sa set breaking down?

kaiwhara · Post by **kaiwhara** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 10:54 am

Considering I was working at the controlling Signalbox at Otahuhu at the time, which makes me the person in charge, I think I would have a fair idea on what was going on at the time mate...

By the way, that freight was not there for 3 hours, only just under 2, and the SA5 did not break down on any running lines, therefore was not blocking anything. Veolia may have provided replacement buses, but for that train service at that time only. The freight train was completely seperate and was cleared up an hour and a half before anything to do with a passenger breakdown occured...

ka9102 · Post by **ka9102** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:41 am

10+ Gowellington Scanias are heading for auckland in the coming weeks,not sure which depots they areassigned to but I guess wiri depot will get some.....

kaiwhara · Post by **kaiwhara** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:48 am

All Roskill at this stage.

ka9102 · Post by **ka9102** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:56 am

oh, i see they are going there so those 5 temp 2300s can cascade down.

kaiwhara · Post by **kaiwhara** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 12:15 pm

Correct. They were only even temporary, hence why they were never painted, only wrapped.

stadt80 · Post by **stadt80** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 12:19 pm

There are going to be a lot of multi-coloured Buses circulating around Auckland!!

Petenz · Post by **Petenz** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 2:13 pm

Uzabus 551 and 552 ( ex Bayline) are on loan to Ritchies until Designline buses arrive in Dunedin and Swanson gets its Scanias back.

stadt80 · Post by **stadt80** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 2:30 pm

So Designline are still in production?.....

kaiwhara · Post by **kaiwhara** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 2:43 pm

Yes. Just under administration.

Post by **Vitalstatistix** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 4:59 pm

Petenz wrote:Uzabus 551 and 552 ( ex Bayline) are on loan to Ritchies until Designline buses arrive in Dunedin and Swanson gets its Scanias back.

Are these based at Swanson?

Petenz · Post by **Petenz** » Wed Jul 20, 2011 5:17 pm

Yes - were at Swanson this morning - used on peak trips from the city.

ka9102 · Post by **ka9102** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:56 pm

has anyone got phots of the new birkenhead MANs?

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