Random Picture of the Month 6 (May)

Whilst I will now mainly post on the West London Bus Blog, I will continue to do these small posts on here.

This month saw YT11LSD pass from Stagecoach's Plumstead garage in Plumstead to Transdev's Edgware garage in Edgware. The bus was first seen in service on Monday 20th, and I simply couldn't miss the opportunity to photograph it.

YT11LSD on route 114 at Ruislip Station

Ruislip Station is the home to the photograph above, undergoing some work to the bus stands on the left. Buses now use the original stop area to stand, and pick up the first passengers from a temporary stand outside the Station Approach area.

YT11LSC and YT11LSD (and YT11LSE for outer-London services) were introduced by Scania whilst the company gradually started taking back all the N230UD chassis buses to undergo changes. YT11LSC was first introduced with London United (numbered SC01), but has now passed to Stagecoach (numbered 80021). YT11LSD was first introduced with Metrobus (numbered 979). then passed to CT Plus (where it was uncoded) and finally Stagecoach (numbered 80019).

The bus had some problems today, mainly with setting the smartblind. The system has not been reprogrammed since gaining new blinds, so in order to set a certain destination and route, you have to put in a completely different destination and route!
To Display '114 Ruislip', you have to set '99 Woolwich' into the smartblind.
To Display '114 Mill Hill Bdy' you have to set '99 Erith' into the smartblind.

As the small notice telling the driver about this strange system only displayed how to set the system with 114 displays, I am assuming that the bus will be allocated to route 114 for it's time at Edgware.

Finally, the bus has been coded 'YT11'. This code obviously stems from the numberplate, although why they didn't code it anything remotely related to 'Scania' or 'SP' does befuddle me.

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