Alexander Dennis Enviro400 Discussion

[Stuharris 6360]

Gushetfaulds on the south side of Glasgow.

Originally a goods yard run by the Caledonian Railway, the site became a Freightliner container terminal under
British Rail and became redundant when the new Euroterminal railfreight depot was built in Coatbridge in the
early 1990s. The yard has been derelict ever since. The new facility on the 10-acre site on Cathcart Road will
be the biggest bus depot in the UK with space for up to 450 buses and more than 1,200 employees.

The new depot will hold 150 more buses than the existing full depot at nearby Larkfield, which will later be
demolished. Balfour Beatty will be responsible for constructing a bus maintenance facility, a dedicated service
tunnel, with a deep clean facility and a specialist long-term vehicle repair unit. The service tunnel will be fitted
with an automated chassis clean unit, two high-specification automated vehicle washes, fuel installation and
facilities for vehicle testing and body shop repairs. Rainwater harvesting is expected to capture 2.2 million litres
of water a year from roof gutters for cleaning the buses.

Groundworks for the construction have already been completed and construction is due to be complete in
October with the site fully operational in November 2014.

[Tony]

Gushetfaulds on the south side of Glasgow.

Originally a goods yard run by the Caledonian Railway, the site became a Freightliner container terminal under
British Rail and became redundant when the new Euroterminal railfreight depot was built in Coatbridge in the
early 1990s. The yard has been derelict ever since. The new facility on the 10-acre site on Cathcart Road will
be the biggest bus depot in the UK with space for up to 450 buses and more than 1,200 employees.
The new depot will hold 150 more buses than the existing full depot at nearby Larkfield, which will later be
demolished. Balfour Beatty will be responsible for constructing a bus maintenance facility, a dedicated service
tunnel, with a deep clean facility and a specialist long-term vehicle repair unit. The service tunnel will be fitted
with an automated chassis clean unit, two high-specification automated vehicle washes, fuel installation and
facilities for vehicle testing and body shop repairs. Rainwater harvesting is expected to capture 2.2 million litres
of water a year from roof gutters for cleaning the buses.
Groundworks for the construction have already been completed and construction is due to be complete in
October with the site fully operational in November 2014.

Oh I know exactly what it is called really, I have got to drive there in a couple of weeks time, (who remembers the old standing joke from years ago about the X51 being extended to Dundee? Walsall to Glasgow is nearly there)

Camera will be in overdrive for a couple of days!

[Wolves256]

Tony are NX only supplying 20 new E400s or will some of the last batch of WM E400s be used aswell?

[Mike K]

Is that the new First Glasgow depot?  Guess thats being used as a base for Commonwealth Games buses.

Yes it is Gusset Folds or something like that! Largest bus depot in the UK with room for 450 buses

Excellent! How do you pronounce 'Gushetfaulds'? I suspect it only sounds right when you say it with a Scottish accent.

[Tony]

Tony are NX only supplying 20 new E400s or will some of the last batch of WM E400s be used aswell?

No buses currently in the West Midlands will be going up.

[Liverpool Street]

Is that the new First Glasgow depot?  Guess thats being used as a base for Commonwealth Games buses.

Yes it is Gusset Folds or something like that! Largest bus depot in the UK with room for 450 buses

Excellent! How do you pronounce 'Gushetfaulds'? I suspect it only sounds right when you say it with a Scottish accent.

First thoughts were "Gushing Folds" but that conjures up all sorts of wrongness.

[Cheese]

Gushetfaulds on the south side of Glasgow.

Originally a goods yard run by the Caledonian Railway, the site became a Freightliner container terminal under
British Rail and became redundant when the new Euroterminal railfreight depot was built in Coatbridge in the
early 1990s. The yard has been derelict ever since. The new facility on the 10-acre site on Cathcart Road will
be the biggest bus depot in the UK with space for up to 450 buses and more than 1,200 employees.
The new depot will hold 150 more buses than the existing full depot at nearby Larkfield, which will later be
demolished. Balfour Beatty will be responsible for constructing a bus maintenance facility, a dedicated service
tunnel, with a deep clean facility and a specialist long-term vehicle repair unit. The service tunnel will be fitted
with an automated chassis clean unit, two high-specification automated vehicle washes, fuel installation and
facilities for vehicle testing and body shop repairs. Rainwater harvesting is expected to capture 2.2 million litres
of water a year from roof gutters for cleaning the buses.
Groundworks for the construction have already been completed and construction is due to be complete in
October with the site fully operational in November 2014.

Oh I know exactly what it is called really, I have got to drive there in a couple of weeks time, (who remembers the old standing joke from years ago about the X51 being extended to Dundee? Walsall to Glasgow is nearly there)

Camera will be in overdrive for a couple of days!

The good old days of Wmbus, think we had a 951D going from Birmingham calling Scott Arms, Walsall, Cannock and Dundee only.  Pretty sure someone mocked up a DP Metro with 951D Dundee in the blind at some point.  Think there were a few other silly 951 variants suggested...

Is Gushetfaulds due to replace a number of First Glasgow depots, guess Larkfield would be one, Parkhead maybe also?

[Stuharris 6360]

Tony are NX only supplying 20 new E400s or will some of the last batch of WM E400s be used aswell?

No buses currently in the West Midlands will be going up.

Tony, is it the same as the Olympics, all National Express branding and legals, plus ticket machines removed?

[PM]

Tony are NX only supplying 20 new E400s or will some of the last batch of WM E400s be used aswell?

No buses currently in the West Midlands will be going up.

Tony, is it the same as the Olympics, all National Express branding and legals, plus ticket machines removed?

There was still very large National Express fleetnames on the pictures Tony posted so presumably not?

[Stuharris 6360]

Is that the new First Glasgow depot?  Guess thats being used as a base for Commonwealth Games buses.

Yes it is Gusset Folds or something like that! Largest bus depot in the UK with room for 450 buses

Excellent! How do you pronounce 'Gushetfaulds'? I suspect it only sounds right when you say it with a Scottish accent.

First thoughts were "Gushing Folds" but that conjures up all sorts of wrongness.

Liverpool Street    :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[

[the trainbasher]

What a lot of brand new buses!

One of the few times you'll see a nx livery bus in the same depot as a first liveried one!

[Tony]

NXs promise of 100 new buses this year is going to be kept and all 100 should be delivered by the end of September so expect a lot of withdrawals soon including the elimination of three vehicle types?

Several people on here are going to be surprised by where the new buses are allocated to as well. I javen't seen too many correct guesses yet!

[monkeyjoe]

i'm pretty confident that it won't be any of the ex LH services benefiting with an upgrade, (however might get casts offs from the usual suspects). 

[Kevin]

Several people on here are going to be surprised by where the new buses are allocated to as well. I javen't seen too many correct guesses yet!

Oh Christ here we go, wild speculation time...

[John]

NXs promise of 100 new buses this year is going to be kept and all 100 should be delivered by the end of September so expect a lot of withdrawals soon including the elimination of three vehicle types?

Several people on here are going to be surprised by where the new buses are allocated to as well. I javen't seen too many correct guesses yet!

B6s, B10s and Darts for the chop I wonder.I still think the O405Ns will be here a bit longer, as well as the Spectras