10/06/2013

Random Picture of the Month 7 (June)

It's Random Picture of the Month 7 with an 07-reg Citaro from the 7series on route 7!
Anything else?

LK07CCJ on route 7 at Uxbridge Station
ES64034 above, was ordered for the 7series routes in 2007. The new blue branding replaced the old silver, and does look very smart indeed. Now that the new Volvo 7900H buses have arrived for routes 75 and 76, some of the older Citaros have not been needed for the 7series, and have ventured out onto Slough's other routes, most commonly the 7. It's a good route - you should go on it if you haven't.
The traditional display found on all of First Berkshire buses with the proper symbols still used for London Underground and National Rail Stations, and Heathrow Airport can be seen. It's unfortunate that these displays have disappeared from everywhere else - everyone knows that the double arrow like above represents a National Rail Station, and the TfL Roundel and Plane symbols are reknown worldwide! It would be nice to see these return, particularly to blinds, to save writing 'Airport' or 'Station', or just leaving a single display as an ambiguous destination.
Eh, what can you do?

Also, the photo above shows that full-size single decker buses can make the turn-around at Uxbridge, so why the Carousel routes don't go in here is a mystery. Perhaps it's to save time, but really that walk out to Belmont Road can be tedious in the rain like was evident on that day.

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