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Bus Eireann Fleet Allocations.

  • 18-10-2017 4:07pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    Would anybody be interested in doing a Bus Eireann fleet list here?

    I know Yuku Irish Transport has it also but not sure if many boardsies are members of that particular site?

    Would be good to have it here I.M.O

    Below is the current listings in Capwell in Cork

    Credit goes to SL10 for compiling it.



    Capwell - Cork (Including Skibbereen)
    Road Passenger
    DD12,15-17,19,20,23,31-33
    LC24,28-30; 203,206-211; 311-319
    MC301-316
    OT1
    SC201,202,209-212,223-228,253,275-280,333,335,336
    SE15,16,21-23
    SL1-25
    SP30,43,46,48,49,59,73-75,85,99
    VWD3-14,31-49,60-62,66,74,75
    VWL138,142,144,154,156,159,166-168,303,306,307,309-311

    Schools
    AM2,4
    AS1-6
    MH13,15-17,19,20
    ML101-106,108-110
    SI102,107,108
    SR17-19,46-48,52
    SP11,18,19
    VC132,135-137,140; 207;301-303,310-312,314-318,320
    VP107,109,312,330,403,405,411,412


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Comments

  • Registered Users Posts: 686 ✭✭✭joegriffinjnr


    Is OT1 still in Cork? Thought I seen it parked up in Broadstone last week.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    Is OT1 still in Cork? Thought I seen it parked up in Broadstone last week.

    Yeah OT1 is in Broadstone.

    No idea what Capwell will get to replace it.

    A photo here of it from last month.


    https://www.flickr.com/photos/57566472@N05/37693094536/in/feed


  • Registered Users Posts: 686 ✭✭✭joegriffinjnr


    LF301 has arrived in Bradstone. I wonder where these will be allocated to.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    Broadstone will be the main beneficiary i suspect.

    Other depots such as Cork might get lucky and received some but in very small numbers,maybe one or 2.


  • Registered Users Posts: 686 ✭✭✭joegriffinjnr


    What are they? Are they like an LE? Like an expressway double deck coach or are they a commuter type one?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    What are they? Are they like an LE? Like an expressway double deck coach or are they a commuter type one?

    Double deck.

    3 are for Limerick.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 11,565 Mod ✭✭✭✭devnull


    What will they be used for in Limerick?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    devnull wrote: »
    What will they be used for in Limerick?

    That I’m not sure of as yet.

    The source is a Limerick based Bus Eireann Driver.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    VWL138 & 144 have been withdrawn.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    That I’m not sure of as yet.

    The source is a Limerick based Bus Eireann Driver.

    I'd take that with a pinch of salt my friend.

    Appearently for years cork was meant to get a couple of LDs according to drivers down there but never happened.

    I'd be very surprised if Limerick got an LF

    Saw one in broadstone very recently, look good but time will tell as usual


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    I'd take that with a pinch of salt my friend.

    Appearently for years cork was meant to get a couple of LDs according to drivers down there but never happened.

    I'd be very surprised if Limerick got an LF

    Saw one in broadstone very recently, look good but time will tell as usual

    I'll take it with a pinch of salt where Cork is concerned for now.

    The Limerick matter was from a driver based there.

    Yeah LF301 is in Broadstone at the moment i noticed.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    I'll take it with a pinch of salt where Cork is concerned for now.

    The Limerick matter was from a driver based there.

    Yeah LF301 is in Broadstone at the moment i noticed.

    I was in cork for some time and heard the same of many drivers and inspectors ,

    it's a very strange company, don't believe anything you hear and only half believe everything you see


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    I was in cork for some time and heard the same of many drivers and inspectors ,

    it's a very strange company, don't believe anything you hear and only half believe everything you see

    Are you still driving for DB?

    A few deckers were sent down to Broadstone this week.

    Were you in Cork for work purposes?


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,964 ✭✭✭Kopparberg Strawberry and Lime


    Are you still driving for DB?

    A few deckers were sent down to Broadstone this week.

    Were you in Cork for work purposes?

    No I'm bus Eireann haven transferred nearly two years ago, a year in cork and broadstone after that

    Wouldn't know anything about those deckers, and I'm actually off this week , only back tomorrow (not out sick for anyone wondering)


  • Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭testarossa40


    4 or 5 new VWDs were headed southbound down the M7/8 last Saturday morning at the hight of Storm Brian - fleet#s 58-63, I think...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    4 or 5 new VWDs were headed southbound down the M7/8 last Saturday morning at the hight of Storm Brian - fleet#s 58-63, I think...

    58 & 59 have gone to Galway.

    60-75 are allocated to Capwell with 4 in convoy spotted on the M8 last weekend as you correctly say.

    Limerick have received VWD87.

    In total they are to receive 7 VWD’s which is expected to cascade VWL164,165,174-177.

    VWL173 has already gone to Dundalk.

    Incidentally 173-177 were new to Capwell in 2008 before transferring to Limerick in 2009.

    VWL164,165 spent 6 months in Cork in 2016.


  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,099 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Yeah OT1 is in Broadstone.

    No idea what Capwell will get to replace it.

    Does it actually do anything between occasional victory parades for (mostly) GAA teams?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    L1011 wrote: »
    Does it actually do anything between occasional victory parades for (mostly) GAA teams?

    It was on the Cork to Blarney tour when Bus Eireann had it.

    The last time I seen it,it was doing the Cork to Cobh your.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    VWD 65 & 73 have now been delivered to Capwell.

    3 VWD's were sitting in Volvo on the Naas road last week.

    I suspect these may be VWD90-92 and destined for Limerick.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭ Jamir Shaggy Loudspeaker


    The VWD 400’s have now entered service in Galway. As a result Capwell in Cork have received VWD26 to 30 from them. VWL154 and VWL156 are now in Waterford.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,001 ✭✭✭ Jamir Shaggy Loudspeaker


    DD27 & VC105 have been acquired for preservation


  • Registered Users Posts: 12,077 ✭✭✭✭Gael23


    The 2008 LCs must be near end of life now are they?


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,925 ✭✭✭GM228


    Gael23 wrote: »
    The 2008 LCs must be near end of life now are they?

    3 years.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Cork Trucker


    Former Athlone/Cork/Galway based VWL 304 & 325 are now allocated to Limerick, reports that VWL308 will follow.
    Former Galway based VWD26 & 27 are now in Waterford via Cork
    VWL150 is now in Cork via Waterford
    Ex Galway based VWD27 & 28 are expected to go to Broadstone via Cork
    Ex Limerick based VWD90 is out of service long term in Cork following an accident in recent times, according to a driver it may be a write off due to cutting equipment being used.


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,031 ✭✭✭Slippin Jimmy


    I see a few of the Streetlite buses in service in Navan on the local service. Also seen one when I was driving through Ardee. There was an ex Cork single decker in Navan a couple of weeks ago. I noticed it had route advertising for Kent Station.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Cork Trucker


    I see a few of the Streetlite buses in service in Navan on the local service. Also seen one when I was driving through Ardee. There was an ex Cork single decker in Navan a couple of weeks ago. I noticed it had route advertising for Kent Station.

    There's a few ex Cork single deckers up that way, VWL305 of Sligo was over in Louth Commericals for work i read somewhere. VWL301/302 are based in Dundalk/Drogheda. VWL304 went from Athlone to Limerick recently and VWL308 is floating around up there too. All of those are 2012 reg. I've never experienced those streetlites. Opinions vary on them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Cork Trucker


    VWL308 is now allocated to Galway. My god the Bus Eireann fleet numbers really are scattered all over the country.


  • Registered Users Posts: 10,655 ✭✭✭✭Jamie2k9


    There was a double decker (one like on Navan-Dublin) operating 40 between Cork/Waterford today.

    Once off or have Cork been given some double deckers for longer non city routes?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,553 ✭✭✭Cork Trucker


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    There was a double decker (one like on Navan-Dublin) operating 40 between Cork/Waterford today.

    Once off or have Cork been given some double deckers for longer non city routes?

    Possibly one of the LD class, was it a 08? Operating route 40?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 10,655 ✭✭✭✭Jamie2k9


    Possibly one of the LD class, was it a 08? Operating route 40?

    Yeah LD225 and an 08 reg.

    Many of them in Cork?, recent?


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