02 March 2020

Plymouth Citybus London Invasion

Most of the London Enviro 200s are now in Plymouth. The batch being former SE221-231

No Reg Chassis Body Seats New
2201 YY64GXJ Alexander Dennis E20D Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 B25D Dec-2014
2202 YY64GXK Alexander Dennis E20D Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 B  F Dec-2014
2203 YY64TXH Alexander Dennis E20D Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 B25D Dec-2014
2204 YY64TXJ Alexander Dennis E20D Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 B25D Dec-2014
2205 YY64TXK Alexander Dennis E20D Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 B25D Dec-2014
2206 YY64TXL Alexander Dennis E20D Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 B25D Dec-2014
2207 YY64TXM Alexander Dennis E20D Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 B25D Dec-2014
2208 YY64TXN Alexander Dennis E20D Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 B25D Dec-2014
2209 YY64TXO Alexander Dennis E20D Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 B25D Dec-2014
2210 YY64TXP Alexander Dennis E20D Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 B25D Dec-2014
2211 YY64TXR Alexander Dennis E20D Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 B25D Dec-2014

and yes – these are the confirmed fleet numbers with Citybus!

2202 is currently at Hants & Dorset Trim under conversion to single door layout. The rest will eventually follow but I understand that these may initially enter service as dual doored buses.

The last two (100, 104) of the Volvo B7RLEs have now been delivered to Go North West so the Blue Flash livery now disappears from the fleet

The final volvos

© Alex Street

Finally for now

Another former London bus E54 has now been purchased and will be joining the fleet shortly

E54 LX56EUB GoAhead 170111

©Eddie January 2011. (creative commons)

19 comments:

  1. the E200 MMCs are all in the 1000 range i believe ,with the new E400 Citys in the 3000 range

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    1. Absolute rubbish!

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    2. Please do correct me. As the buses are for GCB, the fleet numbers are different hence the 2000 range.

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    3. The only known numbers so far are 2201-11, it’s best to wait and see what others are numbered.

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  2. Those rattly E200s from London are not a good swap for the B7RLEs that have gone up North.

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    1. These E200's should have reduced vibrations due to the gearbox, will be better than the Enviro 200's we have.

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    2. Not in my experience of travelling on this very batch in London. The automated manual gearboxes also gives a very jerky ride.

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    3. Saw a couple of brand new Enviros at Milehouse when I finished tonight, I’m sure the WA20 registrations and red in colour

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    4. Ah ok, I was just going off what I have read about the specs, not actually been on these myself so I can't speak from experience. I can totally expect the gearboxes to be jerky given the design, as you said, but overall it seemed like the rattles would still be reduced.

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  3. Do we have a complete list for all the buses that are coming down?

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  4. New enviros seen at the depot tonight when I finished work. Red ones with WA20 registrations.

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    1. WA20DVR and WA20DVT, both allover red made their way down today, passed them on the A38 this afternoon

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  5. Expecting 100 brand new E200MMC's

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    1. 60 E200MMC and 30 E400 City, I understand.

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    2. Thought it was 60 odd and 30-40 E400 City

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    3. A slight exaggeration for brand new E200MMC’s i’m afraid, more like 70+.
      2016/7/9/20/1 WA20DVB/C/G/H/J have arrived so far.

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    4. I go by the official confirmation as listed in the monthly buses magazines, pcb are expecting 100 e200mmc

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  6. i took 2206 to liskeard the other day, and the gearbox is not too different from driving a leyland titan or leyland olympian with a hydracyclic gearbox, it's ok once u get used to it. and they have nice brakes. wasn't that rattly either....

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  7. Heard there were some '64 Reg E400 Enviros (EX Stagecoach London) arriving. Is this true?

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