What bus did you get today? (2007-2018)

[King of Buses]

It came back to life!

Do please elaborate. It's barely been in service a week IIRC...

[Busfanatic101]

Do please elaborate. It's barely been in service a week IIRC...

The rest you had fleet number first and route number in brackets

[King of Buses]

The rest you had fleet number first and route number in brackets

Well whoops...

[King of Buses]

368 (319)
613 (705)
613 (250)
613 (52)
613 (7)
131 (19)

(Everything is the right way around this time...I think)

[King of Buses]

347 (19)
478 (313)
967 (80)
496 (300)
521 (313)
319 (7) - This bus broke down on Eardley St, resulting in 301 replacing it after a 20 minute wait...
301 (7)
612 (39)
135 (101)
135 (101)
135 (101)
135 (101)
608 (4)
608 (5)
608 (22)
608 (24)
561 (319)

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[743]

Yesterday - State Transit (Newcastle) Volvo B12BLE #2078, Routes 320, 363 and 225.

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[King of Buses]

482 (319)
615 (61)
518 (65) - This bus had some Christmas decorations up, but nothing that was worthy of competing with 2078.ST!
430 (300)
481 (318)
379 (313)
496 (31)
970 (2)
894 (5)
610 (61)
610 (19)

[King of Buses]

578 (719)
And this sexy beast, 622! 😀

[King of Buses]

494 (319)
488 (318)
488 (14)
488 (343)
536 (71)
575 (66)
520 (71)
386 (62)
516 (300)
577 (300)
943 (3)
467 (343)
537 (71)
384 (64)
537 (343)
421 (319)

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

Yesterday:

349 (62N) - the first 62 of the morning (yes, at 6:30am)
507 (63S)
335 (767N) - my first full distance Xpresso since the updated Xpresso's, other than the Interchange to Interchange ones
110 (40N)
506 (315S)
474 (318N)
551 (16E)
525 (300W)
425 (44E)
473 (319W)
514 (300S)
409 (39L)
411 (5S)
467 (343S)
323 (63S)
340 (705N)
464 (314N)
483 (343S)
368 (60N)
310 (343S)
328 (343N)
503 (67E)
367 (1W)
322 (64S) (9pm)

Just as a reminder

BLUE - indicates a bus that is on my list of buses I hadn't yet caught this year.

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

952 (62N)
581 (314N)
894 (39N)
922 (57S)
420 (4S)
525 (3N)
438 (319S)
510 (3N)
303 (171S)
320 (64S)

19 buses remaining till 1000 of the year
Buses remaining that I have not yet caught this year - P2s, 104, 108, Darts, 304, 306, 308, 312, 319, 346, 381, 396, 418, 449, 456, 578, 617, 618, 466, 468, 470, 472, 477, 486, 489, 511, 512, 515, 519, 524, 526, 527, 529, 534, 535 and 622.
Won't get them all, but getting at least the P3s, 346 and 381 will satisfy me. I'll make getting them all a goal for next year.

[Bus 400]

Bus 401 - 900
Bus 560 - 902
Bus 542 - 906
Bus 390 - 952
Bus 426 - 956
Bus 435 - 900
Bus 418 - 964

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[Bus 400]

A little bit of variety today, for some bus drivers I caught more buses than they had passengers on their entire shift.

374 - 300
526 - 200
331 - 250
447 - 45
465 - 14
479 - 300
584 - 182
460 - 26
544 - 25
356 - 300
556 - 11
436 - 80
562 - 23
451 - 749

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[King of Buses]

562 - 23

Hmm...so that's who the troublemaker behind me was on that run

370 (19)
574 (313)
562 (Insert about 11 runs here...it was a long day)
407 (318)

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

620 (62N)
337 (300N)
551 (4N)
456 (9S)
356 (313N)
420 (7N)
391 (7S)
396 (9S)
527 (3??S)
524 (65S)
338 (61W)
472 (318S)
449 (316N)
346 (318S)
561 (64N)

[Bus 400]

Bus 335 - 1
Bus 577 - 3
Bus 352 - 4
Bus 602 - 66
Bus 509 - 300
Bus 339 - 81
Bus 478 - 30
Bus 936 - 66
Bus 936 - 66 (Because why not)

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[Bus 503]

Bus 478 - 30

You sure?

[Bus 400]

You sure?

Totally a 30 from City to Woden. Nah I went to change it, but I can't edit once posted.


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[Sylvan Loves Buses]

#997 - 934 (62N)
#998 - 543 (318S)
#999 - 574 (343N)
#1000 - 964 (65S)

that's now 5000 buses in the past 5 years

[Bus 400]

Bus 416 - 16
Bus 590 - 250
Bus 516 - 200
Bus 397 - 80
Bus 618 - 8
Bus 458 - 2

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[King of Buses]

My final day of gunzelling for the year...

522 (19)
482 (319)
595 (64)
573 (61)
574 (313)
384 (343)
570 (200)
451 (250)
531 (313)
605 (66)
613 (64)
437 (65)
908 (65)
501 (63)
513 (67)
377 (64)
476 (313)
476 (313)
608 (319)

Yearly summary/stats to come over the next couple of days (probably).

[King of Buses]

486 (319)
906 (313)
570 (54)
593 (200)
521 (313)
553 (300)
446 (343)
560 (19)

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[King of Buses]

575 (313)
519 (343)
570 (4)
557 (300)
487 (200)
115 (200)
151 (101)
393 (300)
415 (319)
582 (318)
546 (314)
926 (39)
318 (7)
928 (343)
522 (316)
570 (2)
530 (319)

[King of Buses]

389 (300)
592 (250)
404 (55)
514 (200)
416 (56)
522 (200)
535 (313)
373 (19)

[King of Buses]

947 (719)
967 (80)
965 (22)
934 (343)
387 (19)

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

already 26 bus rides into the year, off to a good start to prevent me from having to get the rest at the end of the year.
As for yesterday though:

926 (62N)
959 (4N)
150 (101E)
301 (7N)
924 (2S)
928 (313N) - finally got to see 622 with my own eyes, and for the drawing i plan to still do, the part of the bus that no one got a shot of on the press release day.
380 (31S)
507 (200E)
486 (200W)
389 (56N)
393 (56S)
998 (300S)
429 (319S)
567 (62N)

[Bus 400]

Bus 619 (900)
Bus 563 (950)
Bus 400 (954)
Bus 417 (903)
Bus 554 (904)
Bus 455 (900)

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[King of Buses]

968 (719)
147 (101)
147 (101)
962 (7)
586 (254)
388 (252)
912 (57)
147 (101)
570 (182)
961 (313)
511 (200)
4558 (831)
446 (300)
527 (313)
576 (3)
967 (5)
523 (313)
362 (19)

[King of Buses]

521 (182)
956 (30)
622 (300) - this is so much nicer ride wise than a CB80 equivalent - no rattles!
603 (319) - rattles aplenty!

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[Sylvan Loves Buses]

That was one hell of a day today, but as for the buses;

569 (164n) - to do the drawing
315 (80s)
365 (80n)
444 (300s)
meal break
375 (62n)
353 (300n) - to continue the drawing, but as I looked up when I was drawing to get something for it, I spotted 622 on its way, :popping: :popping: :popping: and I was like OMG, dropped everything (literally/accidentally), and ran!
622 (300s)
622 (316n)
589 (313s)
582 (62n)

[Bus 400]

Bus 505-900
Bus 619-967
Bus 387-966
Bus 595-900
Bus 572-938
Bus 586-935
Bus 398-900
Bus 432-900

[King of Buses]

965 (719)
931 (316)
967 (171)
585 (300)
577 (44)
117 (16)
945 (314)
536 (313)
608 (71)
338 (66)
922 (19)

[King of Buses]

342 (23)
960 (182)
937 (2)
460 (343)
967 (313)
551 (14)
555 (318)
306 (9)
508 (200)
934 (252)
622 (163)
336 (705)

[King of Buses]

It's been an interesting past few days to say the least...

Yesterday
502 (919)
462 (964)
494 (934)
406 (909)
QCity Piecart 1796
ex-ACTION 803

Today
569 (919)
599 (900)
ex-Newcastle Buses 2619
ex-ACTION 803
617 (932)
570 (900)
620 (919)

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

554 (300N)

324 (23S)
379 (61N)
345 (300N)
622 (16E) (Drawing Completion)
569 (343S)
965 (62S)

[Busfanatic101]

589 (65N)
901 (4N)
103 (School Run)
148 (101)- B1 (at 5pm)
147 (101)- no B1/B2 label (6:45pm)
554 (319S)
572 (67S)


It seemed there were possibly 3 darts operating the city loop, because 151 went past southbound on northbourne when I was on 148 waiting for the turn onto barry dr- 151 went ahead and turned right onto alinga which I presumed meant that 151 was operating as well with the contact from base to driver advising to avoid barry drive due to an accident and use marcus clarke (not rimmer)- although we used rimmer anyway.

[Busfanatic101]

148 was B2- sorry

[Busfanatic101]

343 (65N)
482 (5N)
941 (5N)
368 (2N)
150 (101W)
921 (8S)
493 (Enlighten Shuttle - City to Langton)
572 (343S)

[Bus 400]

NSW Trainlink Train 2502- 632 (Canberra to Campbelltown)
Sydney Trains Train A32 (Campbelltown to Padstow)
Transdev Bus 9482 - 962 (Padstow to Miranda)
Mainanbar Bundeena Bus 9074 - 989 (Miranda to Bundeena) *Trip only runs Friday's & deviated due to flooding.
Cronulla Ferries "Curranulla" (Bundeena to Cronulla)
Sydney Trains T1 (Cronulla to Martin Place)
Sydney Buses Bus 3791 - 412 (Martin Place to Camperdown

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[Bus 400]

Sydney Buses
Bus 4912 - 438 (Camperdown to Railway Square)
Bus 1636 - 5 (Central Station to Circular Quay)

Sydney Ferries
Freshwater (Circular Quay to Manly)
Queenscliff (Manly to Circular Quay
*Because who doesn't take the Manly Ferry on a rough day

Sydney Buses
Bus 2257 - 333 (Circular Quay to Bondi Junction)
Bus 2027 - 360 (Bondi Junction to North Clovelly)
Bus 1319 - 360 (North Clovelly to Bondi Junction)
Bus 1917 - 314 (Bondi Junction to Coogee)
Bus 1336 - 370 (Coogee to Leichhardt)
Bus 2801- 445 (Leichhardt to Balmain East Wharf)
Bus 1818 - 445 (Balmain East Wharf to Campsie)
Bus 2378 - 412 (Campsie to Camperdown)

For a total of  (roughly) 87km on buses & 29km on ferries today

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[King of Buses]

578 (719)
450 (58)
145 (101)
358 (11A*)
450 (11)
340 (11)
340 (11)
308 (1)
515 (63)
423 (319)

* : 1st 11A service to operafe

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

965 (60N)
later during the day...

Originally I was to get the 23 from Woden CIT drop something off at Mawson shops, and get a 22 to Pearce Terminus, but instead, I rode and got there a few minutes ealier, which in turn worked out unexpectedly magnificent in the timing (as the 21 and 23 pass at the same time), as 623 came by as the 21.
So,
623 (21W) - to do another not yet attempted birds eye termini drawing
444 (22N)
394 (5N) (Kingston Railway Drawing)
558 (200N)
600 (319S)
979 (163S)

Caught some of photos too - I'll share them soon.

[triumph]

443  (15)
321  (3)
484  (?)
147  (101)
624  (10)
100  (10)
967  (315)

[King of Buses]

352 (313)
623 (17)
624 (300) - Convenient that I should arrive at Kippax on 623 only for 624 to show up!
604 (71)
569 (1)
344 (313)
477 (313)
625 (17) - Second run in service for her, I believe.
411 (319)
524 (300)
967 (64)
476 (318)
324 (719)

[Busfanatic101]

625 (17) - Second run in service for her, I believe.

Why her?
It would be interesting to go back and see what the initial possessive pronouns used for various bus models were, when they have been used. It may give some indication of initial impressions. Of course the MANs would probably have been referred to as a he, but what of the Scanias, Darts, Irises etc?


To keep on topic:



588 (67)
905 (4)
533 (S/R) just as we turned into Woden, 622 left on the 67 I almost made Yet to go on one yet
360 (67)

[Sylvan Loves Buses]

I think buses are just generally called 'shes', like ships, boats and trucks etc. There is a reason for it, I just can't remember.

not many for me *cough* yesterday *cough*
376 (64N)
938 (313N)
456 (4N)
923 (163S)

[King of Buses]

Why her?

Because why not? Not trying to spark an equality debate or the likes, but quite often you'll find that vehicles are referred to as female (the only exception I am aware of, generally, is as you said, MAN vehicles). If you want to know more, I suggest www.google.com.au.

Anyway, the buses I caught today...

488 (319)
115 (64)
956 (171)
150 (101)
561 (11A)
351 (11)
111 (7)
344 (14)
441 (14)
and
494*

* : The MAN SL200/CAC, that is.

[Snorzac]

944 (314)
960 (313)
457 (11)
351 (11)
111 (7)
344 (14)
Ex 494 (drove it as well for about a 10 metre stint)


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[King of Buses]

473 (319)
345 (300)
450 (9)
494 (the SL200)
470 (318)
949 (719)

[Bus 400]

Yesterday:

Bus 563 & 605 - Tidbinbilla Reserve Open Day Loops

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