So were no high driving position Merlins new as MBAs? Were the country MBSs upseated before entry into service? What was their standing capacity if 25 seaters?
First I had known MB304-397 were planned as Green Line coaches. Keith On 30 Dec, 21:59, "Michael Wadman" <[email protected]> wrote: > Keith, > > I'm afraid that Merlins and their class codes were a little lacking in > logic. A central area MB was a single-door conventional 50-seater, and a > central area MBS was a two-door flat-fare 25-seater (originally, although > most were later changed to B32D). But while a country area an MBS was still > a two-door 25-seater, a country area MB was a two-door 45-seater. All the > country area Merlins were two-door. > > The actual production batches (if you're interested) were: > > MBA 16-31 Red Arrow B25D. All later reclassified MBS and converted to B46D > > MBS 32-80 Central area flat-fare B25D. All later to B32D > > MB 81-113 Country area B45D > > MB 114-165 Central area B50F > > MBA 166-193 Red Arrow B25D. All later reclassified MB and converted to B46D > (note that this batch were reclassified MB and the earlier batch were > reclassified MBS. No, I don't understand why either.) > > MBS 194-269 Central area flat-fare B25D. All later to B32D > > MBS 270-303 Country area B25D. Most later to B32D > > MB 304-397 Central area B50F. It was originally intended that this batch > would be Green Line coaches, but in the event they were built as > conventional buses. > > MBS 398-438 Country area B25D. All later to B32D > > MBS 439-615 Central area flat-fare B25D. All later to B32D. Some later > converted to Red Arrows and reclassified MBA > > MB 616-665 Central area B50F > > HTIOI > > MW > > > > ----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of K N > Sent: 30 December 2009 13:40 > To: London Bus Scene > Subject: [London Bus Scene] Re: VLW 19G > > Again I would have thought if there was a difference with number of > doors, the Central ones would have been dual doored and the Country > ones single doored. When it came to Nationals virtually all of LCBS > vehicles were single door and all of LTs were dual doored. > > London does seem obsessed with dual doors, I accept that most double > deck and busy single deck routes need dual door but I wonder about the > benefit of dual doors on 9.4m Darts or Enviro 200s. I would have > thought some routes which serve unpavemented roads (especially hail > and ride) they might be better off with single door buses. > > Keith- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "London Bus Scene" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] IMAGE SIZES are important, as is QUALITY. Try not to post very large photos or very small ones. Pixel width should be no bigger than 1600 and no smaller than 800. This allows members to view the images full screen, depending on their monitor settings. Quality should be sharp and maintained when resizing images. File sizes should be around the 250KB - 600KB mark, but not bigger than 800KB. Try to keep somewhere in the middle of all this, around 400KB can produce good images with no loss of quality. You can easily reduce the size of images using Google's own picassa http://picasa.google.com/ or Irfanview http://www.irfanview.com/ -- Experience the Devil
