Badgerline at Worcester !

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ANDREW
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Re: Badgerline at Worcester !

Post by ANDREW » 11:05 Saturday 22nd March 2025

The Badgerline livery certainly stands out whereas corporate First livery - whichever version - to me has the opposite effect. As for Diamond , they have been slowly improving the age profile of their fleet of recent years but they do have one thing in common with First , a lot of their vehicles run around with a coating of grime. ;) :o

TimBrown
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Re: Badgerline at Worcester !

Post by TimBrown » 14:22 Thursday 27th March 2025

Here's where the budget has been spent. Battery operated buses working a 45 mile round X1 trip from Weston-Super-Mare to Bristol with Chinese built Yutong double-deckers at that. Is there rapid charging each end as I doubt whether the range is much better than 120 miles in ideal conditions, I'm also wondering what is wrong with the WrightBus alternative? A Sino of the times, all as per attached link to on-line Route One article;

https://www.route-one.net/news/first-bu ... uper-mare/

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AdamH
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Re: Badgerline at Worcester !

Post by AdamH » 19:26 Thursday 27th March 2025

Saw a new Yutong in First livery heading down the M5 towards Bristol today. Very smart!

ANDREW
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Re: Badgerline at Worcester !

Post by ANDREW » 17:53 Friday 28th March 2025

Another one seen on the M5 today. YK25OJM in all over green livery. :mrgreen:

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Re: Badgerline at Worcester !

Post by TimBrown » 08:27 Wednesday 30th April 2025

With kind permission of Bob Hemming here are photographs, taken from the Pheasant Street gate of two more Badgerline Streetdecks parked on Padmore Street 'patch'. On
Friday 25 April 2025 it was 35689 MF22 SZC.
25 Apr 2025.jpg
Then yesterday, Tuesday 29 April 2025, 35685 MF22 SYW is seen alongside driver training bus 66845 MX05 CGU.
29 Apr 2025 A.jpg
With a trio of recently cascaded ADL E400 double-deckers, now part of the Worcester fleet, parked alongside the (redundant) bus wash.
29 Apr 2025 B.jpg
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