An Orange Flash taken care of

Plymouth Citybus have started to repaint the Orange Flash MANs into full swoops starting with 703…

© Peter Heath

Seen previously in all its orangey goodness…

©didbygraham January 2017

I must admit I prefer her in red. Thanks to Peter for the photo.

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Just a quick line about the fleet lists - I am afraid they are currently quite a bit out of date and are not likely to be updated for a while yet as my present PC is at the end of its useful life and Google Docs now grinds to a halt if I try and do anything useful!

The good news is that a new PC will soon be purchased and I hope to start to rebuild all the fleetlists back in Microsoft Office and make them available online once again. I will also be able to get back to regular posting on PT too!

Every Journey Taken Care Of

I have been updating the Plymouth Citybus Fleet List over the last day or two which includes the slow introduction to service of the EcoCity gas buses. The full compliment of Orange Flash 701-705 are now ready. 711/712 are in swoop with a new tag line at the rear of the bus. It seems that 706-710 will now NOT be Purple Flash. 708 at least is now also in full swoop livery.

Thanks to Richard Smith for these shots of 712 and a few Oranges.

I will now be taking my Christmas break with just a few posts over the next week or so, with just the weekly Devon & Cornwall Transit posts planned at the moment. I will be back properly in the New Year.

Just looking ahead though, One thing I will be doing early in 2017 is looking back at the highlights of 2016. So if you want some homework - feel free to send in your highlights for the year - anything transport related is welcome (if they come with pictures even better!) I can then share them over a couple of posts.

I also realise that I never did get round to the predictions for 2016 so I want to put that right this year- What do you expect to see in 2017? Anything across Devon & Cornwall that is transport related. I will then get them out early in 2017!

In the meantime have a great Christmas and Happy New Year to all my readers. Thanks to you all for you support, especially over this last difficult few weeks.

Graham

Eco Flash

Yesterday finally saw the first of the MAN EcoCity Gas Buses enter Plymouth Citybus service with 703 out and about during the day. 705 was briefly out as well but had a technical issue. It was later observed back out on test so hopefully will be out and about shortly.

© Tom Michaels

© Richard Smith

© Richard Smith

© Richard Smith

Finally for now, my only sighting of these buses so far was 705 sitting at the front of the workshops a damp evening last week

Nice use of black does make these buses look even smarter.

Thanks to Tom Michaels and Richard Smith for the photos.

Nearly Ready…

After unspecified "problems" the MAN EcoCity Orange Flash fleet did not enter service on Monday but the last I heard was they might be out today (Wednesday 7th).