It's definitely a good bus. I've been on 736, 737, and 738 on the Swift and they are all pretty decent. I've also been on 701 whilst it was still branded for The Villager and... I can't imagine it's a contender.
Amazing video, love the wright eclipse urbans! I honestly think, if they had a better screen like in the E200 mmcs, for next - stop announcements, they could be new bus rollouts for all of their fleet. (Edit: I know they arent new, but they have a modern look to them.
Thank you! I agree, they still do look modern, even though some of them are coming up to 16 years old. They're my favourite type of vehicle in the Trent Barton fleet and I hope they return to buying more Wright-bodied products (especially with the looming hydrogen buses). The dot matrix next stop announcement boards worked fine, until Trent Barton decided to replace the ticket machines.
@@TSlimetheDJ I believe that the boards on the Eclipses and Solars are taller, while the Optare ones are thinner. Trent Barton have to get them working by 2026, as I believe that new legislation stating that all buses must have next stop announcements is coming in.
Yeah, as a random thought, do you know when the next batch or generation will be scrapped in the TB fleet? I think FE02KFL will be up next along with some others but im not 100% sure, that bus is on its way out and it doesnt have usb power or anything like that@@trentbartontraveller
@@TSlimetheDJ I'd imagine that the Solos will be phased out within the next few months and replaced by the former The Threes Versas. I think that this change has been delayed due to teething issues with The Threes MMCs. Also, Connect will seemingly be gaining some Versas. Whether they'll be branded or not is yet to be confirmed. I believe that FE02 KFL is operating as a bonus spare vehicle and they'll essentially run it until it breaks (unless it already has).
No offence, but I wasn't competing with you. I'm grateful for all the subscribers that I already have because I never envisaged my content reaching this level of popularity, especially since I release videos purely for fun. In my opinion, all you're doing is reducing the subscriber count to meaningless numbers. My content creation approach is very different to yours, so our two channels aren't really comparable.
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Defo the best eclipse on the Swift so far.
It's definitely a good bus. I've been on 736, 737, and 738 on the Swift and they are all pretty decent. I've also been on 701 whilst it was still branded for The Villager and... I can't imagine it's a contender.
Amazing video, love the wright eclipse urbans! I honestly think, if they had a better screen like in the E200 mmcs, for next - stop announcements, they could be new bus rollouts for all of their fleet. (Edit: I know they arent new, but they have a modern look to them.
Thank you! I agree, they still do look modern, even though some of them are coming up to 16 years old. They're my favourite type of vehicle in the Trent Barton fleet and I hope they return to buying more Wright-bodied products (especially with the looming hydrogen buses). The dot matrix next stop announcement boards worked fine, until Trent Barton decided to replace the ticket machines.
@@trentbartontraveller 100%! Isn't the matrix board on the wright eclipse the same as a 2012 - 2014 optare versa?
@@TSlimetheDJ I believe that the boards on the Eclipses and Solars are taller, while the Optare ones are thinner. Trent Barton have to get them working by 2026, as I believe that new legislation stating that all buses must have next stop announcements is coming in.
Yeah, as a random thought, do you know when the next batch or generation will be scrapped in the TB fleet? I think FE02KFL will be up next along with some others but im not 100% sure, that bus is on its way out and it doesnt have usb power or anything like that@@trentbartontraveller
@@TSlimetheDJ I'd imagine that the Solos will be phased out within the next few months and replaced by the former The Threes Versas. I think that this change has been delayed due to teething issues with The Threes MMCs.
Also, Connect will seemingly be gaining some Versas. Whether they'll be branded or not is yet to be confirmed. I believe that FE02 KFL is operating as a bonus spare vehicle and they'll essentially run it until it breaks (unless it already has).
You are one subscriber below me 😂
No offence, but I wasn't competing with you. I'm grateful for all the subscribers that I already have because I never envisaged my content reaching this level of popularity, especially since I release videos purely for fun.
In my opinion, all you're doing is reducing the subscriber count to meaningless numbers. My content creation approach is very different to yours, so our two channels aren't really comparable.
@@trentbartontraveller oh yeah I wasn’t aware for that. My apologies for any inconvenience