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1887 SCANIA OMNISHITE, What an awful bus first of all cab heaters stuck on just what you need on a hot day, i had the great privilege of driving this gem on the 87 service, no more deckers available due to the uselessness of WB's platinums,
it takes forever to get to 20 mph, its like driving a bouncy castle while stuck in a sauna.
I WOULD gladly drive this to PVS myself for free

I'm not sure if I asked this before, but what do you dislike about the platinums in your experience? I thought they were the most reliable double deckers in the NX fleet.

Yet another bus fire, this time it's Stagecoach South's 18379 (MX55 KRN) who decided enough to go out in style.

https://www.hantsfire.gov.uk/incident/double-decker-bus-blaze-in-bordon-tackled-by-on-call-crews/ 

E244 seen in town dropping a few staff off.

The route 27 will have a bit of an issue in the coming years. The bridge at Bourneville station is a triange 9' 9, in which a 10' 6(?) Omnilink can fit under nicely. However, since Omnilinks are getting replaced relatively fast (presumably all withdrawn by late-2025 ) and all new electrics seem to be too tall for that bridge. It may require a re-routing of that portion of the 27 because the adjacent Mary Vale Rd looks to be too impractical for any NX bus.

There will probably still be some 2009/10 Scanias lingering around after this batch of electrics. Hopefully NX don't eat into the 2007 Enviro 400s with this batch, they are still doing very well.

Thanks for the reply. I've been seeing that the Electroliner is making waves across the UK, especially London. I really do hope that NX order big for this bus, it also seems to be good from a passenger perspective.

The next order, which is likely to start delivery later this year, that I cannot give details of yet, but it will not be BYD

Have you had the chance of driving another electric bus asides from the BYD ones and the electroliner? If so, what is your favourite electric bus so far?

That's good to hear. The interior on the BYDs are very awkward, 39 seats upstairs for a 10.8m bus is a bit lack luster too.

I did a 'lap' of the 8C one Saturday afternoon a few weeks ago now - yes, I was bored and wanted something different to do!

In my opinion, under 'normal circumstances', the route copes quite well with single decks at its current frequency levels (every 12-15mins).

The problems with overcrowding come when the buses get delayed and start running late, but then the same can be said for any other bus service that uses single decks.

In the rush hours it gets very busy, especially because it goes past so many schools and is a convenient link to many bus routes. It gets into traffic in basically almost every suburb that it passes through, so it ends up regularly getting late and often bunches together.

Current signage is 14' 3 with a red circle, meaning E400 MMCs and BYD E400 Cities (and the new E400EV model) can fit under there. The sign used to be triangle not long ago, back then you'd have 14' 5/6 buses going under regularly. I'm sure some 11A/C deadrun buses still go through it sometimes.

In the view of NX, do the current passenger loads warrant a need to upgrade this route to double decks? From what I've seen as a passenger, it sure as hell does. This is all up to the fleet situation at NX ofc, but just wondering.

Target the cars not the buses, theyre the ones doing the most damage to the environment and releasing the most fumes

There's nothing wrong with electrifying buses, the amount of emissions produced by an 8.3L ALX400 engine being used over 20 years must be very high. However, the best way to target cars is human-centric urban planning and excellent public transport infrastructure. Although this concept will be demonised by the same conspiracy theorists that fabricate lies about electric buses exploding every other day.

Don't get me started on this fake news. There is no climate crisis in the UK.

Believe what you want to believe, but it's not just the climate crisis as to why companies are pushing for zero emission. People would much rather not be inhaling the fumes of combustion engines, so it's good if these emissions can be cut as much as possible.

Does damage to the chassis make a bus an instant write-off, or does it vary depending on the amount of damage to the chassis? 

Thanks for the clarification. The reason why I was wondering was because I walked towards the Billesley Common bus stop only to find the road closure had disappeared alongside a 17XX Omnilink passing by on the 2 to Maypole on normal route. I got some extra steps in at the very least.