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skylinkdamo · Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 8:24 pm Post subject: Premiere

2 coaches on the x9 today, dont know if the goose fair is the reason Confused

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Perry 201 · Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Posts: 3010 Location: Nottingham

There were coaches on event-link to Goose Fair on Friday.
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houstmon · Joined: 11 Jun 2008 Posts: 39 Location: Nottingham

I saw at least two of the three-axle Omnilinks (301-303) on eventlink Goose Fair services on Saturday - I assume these have been sold by NCT to Premiere?

Ash · Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:14 pm Post subject:

They were never NCTs in the first place lol. The Tri-Axles were and are still property of Nottingham City Council...........
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skylinkdamo · Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:32 pm Post subject:

one of the triaxles was on x9 today
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Perry 201 · Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Posts: 3010 Location: Nottingham

Don't suppose they've got much to do with em now... oh apart from kick the council's arse and get em repainted... they look an absolute shambles on the outside.

Red would look brilliant on them with subtle, but in the style of the city council. Maybe shoplink style but with red in place of blue, then similar lettering/branding to the current event-link writing.
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Ash · Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 12:44 am Post subject:

Agreed with you on the colour scheme there Perry. They certainly played their part though for Goose Fair though. Are they still staying with Premiere permanently, or was it just a short term thing for Goose Fair??
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Blakey · Joined: 01 Feb 2007 Posts: 446

I somehow can't see them going back to NCT as the one I was on yesterday has had all of the CCTV removed and most of the internal adverts removed.

Not too sure what else you could do with them now, but I agree with Perry that they could do with a lick of paint.

899 · Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 1209

Premiere do eventlink for cricket/football matches too

Perry 201 · Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Posts: 3010 Location: Nottingham

The CCTV units and all fare collecting equipment belong to NCT, they have a checklist of things to remove before sale of vehicle (includes assault screen/blind/fare box etc) I remember seeing one of them on a premiere Solo when they were purchased this time last year.

The Omnilinks are to remain with premiere travel as part of the event-link scheme, this is funded by the City Council (hence the name)

www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/eventlink

You can even make a suggestion for events.

I suppose there's no point of over £300,000 of vehicle sat in the yard for the majority of the year so why not use them out in service.

Still disagree with the paintwork but hopefully this will be temporary.
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gds · Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 55

Are they being used on the X9 on a more permanent basis?

I was on the 63 the other day and someone signalled the bus to stop and it turned out was after the X9. Driver told him to look out for the big green buses now cos they were changing...
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bobclayton · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 9:58 am Post subject:

Wouldn't surprise me to be honest. I think Premiere want the MAN's for stuff like the X1, and the Eventlink buses are very well suited to thrashing down the A60 (:

Perry 201 · Joined: 22 Jan 2006 Posts: 3010 Location: Nottingham

The Omnilinks are now permanetly(ish) allocated to X9.

The MANs are on the X1 to solve some of the capacity issues the Solos are 'suffering' with.

The Omnilinks aren't planned to be repainted either yet apparently.

Doesn't make much sense having over £300,000 of Omnilink sat at Trent Bridge doing nothing so I suppose it's good getting use out of them, but as far as I'm aware, the City Council object wholeheartedly to their 'branded' buses being used on wrong routes.
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bobclayton · Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:36 pm Post subject:

03 reg Solo on Railink today