I've been meaning to blog our new motors for a while. Proper beasts these, at 15 meters long (maximum for rigid body) they kick the sh!t out of the competition! Quite beautiful to drive too. Guess these will be the new 'signature' vehicles for the company.
Sorry for poor quality, it was a camera-phone jobby (good quality ones aren't my pics, a colleague took them when they first appeared). All except the bottom two can be clicked for a bigger image.
Parked up at the side of our part of Green Line Coach Station in London Victoria:
Parked in front of one of our (at 13.8m, already larger than normal) Neoplan Skyliners (
not my pic):
A true side-on view shows the length well. The 'middle' wheel is stationary, front and rears steer. therefore everything behind the dentre wheel swings out on corners (
not my pic):
The passenger cabin. All seats have seatbelts of course, not just those three pairs (
not my pic):
Parked at our stop in GLCS London ready to load up:
The wheelchair lift, and lots of low luggage space makes loading and unloading a breeze (
not my pic):
Main display part of the dashboard (looks better when all icons fully lit up) the many display screens available are very useful:
Full size guide in the cab:
Wonder how long it will be before a certain other company will copy ours and get the same vehicles; they copied our choice of long Neoplans and 3 months in, well everyone knows what unfortunately happened after new year...and they've not used them since.
Some people out there may associate Megabus with cheap old vehicles that break down etc. This goes to show that's it's not the case! (Breakdowns are a fact of life for all transport companies, bearing in mind vehicles are constantly on the go and do many thousands of miles a week! The mileage a car covers in it's lifetime a coach can cover in 1 or 2 years.
