Diamond South East (formerly Hallmark Connections / Hotel Hoppa)

[winston]

Rotala have on order 3 x Custom Denning 10.2m single decker electric buses from Australia, they have been ordered for the Bedfont Lakes contract & will be allocated to Stanwell Depot. They should be 24 seaters & will be numbered 39001-3 (due Feb 2024 onwards)

[hlliwmai]

Rotala have on order 3 x Custom Denning 10.2m single decker electric buses from Australia, they have been ordered for the Bedfont Lakes contract & will be allocated to Stanwell Depot. They should be 24 seaters & will be numbered 39001-3 (due Feb 2024 onwards)

is that Simon's brother' business as I know he has a business making buses 

[winston]

is that Simon's brother' business as I know he has a business making buses

Yes

[hlliwmai]

Yes

I thought so thanks @winston 

[DJ]

Rotala have on order 3 x Custom Denning 10.2m single decker electric buses from Australia, they have been ordered for the Bedfont Lakes contract & will be allocated to Stanwell Depot. They should be 24 seaters & will be numbered 39001-3 (due Feb 2024 onwards)

Interesting development, ableit one I predicted a few years ago when the model was unveiled, and did a quick mock up of!

[ellspurs]

The Hotel Hoppa. Had the pleasure of them this weekend. 

Yesterday - H5A showed up on time, bus a bit worse for wear, got me to where I needed to get to. 

Today - H5A didn't show up at the hotel I was waiting for it from. Tracking initially showed no buses on route, then it picked up one travelling away from the hotel I was waiting for it at 5 minutes after its due time. Two ladies had been waiting even longer for it. Two H2As went past but needed to get to Terminal 5, not 2. Guessing the lack of bus turning up was a known issue as the car park attendant at the hotel phoned up a taxi and got the taxi driver to drop us off a T5 only paying the cost of bus plus the £5 Heathrow drop off fee. 

If I had wait for one to maybe turn up, then I probably would have missed the coach back up. 

[ellspurs]

I have checked on both Stagecoach Oxfordshire and Oxford Bus Company websites as well and neither operator states a replacement service will be provided. However the existing Stagecoach S5 service partly covers the route and it looks like other sections will be covered by Grayline Coaches service 24 with effect from Monday 13th February.

As of March 25th, Red Rose has taken over the running of the 24. Nowhere on Grayline/Red Rose's websites is this mentioned; I just happened to stumble across it when looking on bustimes to see who was operating the 24 (as the buses had been plain white with "Oxford via Villages" on the destination display).

I will note that whomever maintains the bus flags still haven't changed the ones on Banbury Road, they still display the service 250 as running.