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On Jul 10, 10:26*pm, John Swallow wrote: MIG wrote: I don't think there was such a thing as a 453 before bendys though. Or a 436. *They made overlapping sections with the 53 and 36 which were shortened, and my impression was that it happened with bendification. You're correct (apart from the 453 running with deckers for the first month or so at first until the artics were delivered). So the yellow plates would have been on the stops for all of about a week before the routes were over to pay before boarding. Yes, I sort of remember that remember that - a great fleet of double- deckers was laid on instead. I'm guessing they operated as per normal, with the driver checking the tickets. I've a vague recollection of double-deckers stood in for bendy buses on some routes after the artics had been withdrawn after a number of them infamously caught fire - however I've just found this BBC News story from 2004 which states they were withdrawn altogether on few bendy bus routes pending modifications: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/3563279.stm ---quote--- There are no services on the 436, 453 and 521. Reduced services are operating on the number 18, 293, 507, and RV1 have been replaced by ordinary buses. Extra services are running on routes 36, 53 and 185. ---quote--- So it seems my recollection is wrong (unless there was a separate incidence of this happening, but on reflection I don't think there was). Interesting to see that at least some of the 18, 507 and RV1 (a non-bendy Citaro) fleets were apparently considered ok enough to be out on the street - maybe they'd had the crucial modifications done. (And the 293 - that's not an artic - is it a Citaro then?) I'm half-curious to know whether the 36 and 53 were extended to cover the extra stretches normally covered by the missing bendies (that's New Cross to Lewisham for the 436, and Whitehall/Horse Guards to Marylebone for the 453). Maybe other routes were left to take the strain (though no other route from Whitehall or Trafalgar Square exactly replicates the 453). |
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Mizter T wrote:
I've a vague recollection of double-deckers stood in for bendy buses on some routes after the artics had been withdrawn after a number of them infamously caught fire ... Yes, that's right. For example, Stagecoach used its own Tridents (I think from Hull if memory serves) on the 453, so in full white-based livery (and the world didn't end because they used non-red buses, but that's another story entirely ). (And the 293 - that's not an artic - is it a Citaro then?) The 293 at the time was operated by Epsom Coaches with conventional Citaro single deckers. It isn't anymore. I'm half-curious to know whether the 36 and 53 were extended to cover the extra stretches normally covered by the missing bendies (that's New Cross to Lewisham for the 436, and Whitehall/Horse Guards to Marylebone for the 453). Maybe other routes were left to take the strain (though no other route from Whitehall or Trafalgar Square exactly replicates the 453). There were no service changes during the bendy-off-the-road saga. Most routes eventually had something, even if was ridiculous things like recently-withdrawn single door Darts trying to run limited Red Arrow services. |
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