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• Volvo Olympian

  27 Jan 06, 18:59

  Originally posted by eX.A.K.R.:

  Two questions regarding MB O405 buses, one belonging to SBS Transit and another belonging to SMRT:
  
  2. Most Hispano-bodied MB O405 buses owned by SMRT has rectangular windows at the rear, with right angled-corners. However, there is this particular one (an OAC bus) with a rounded rectangular rear window. Why, and where is that bus now?
  
  More questions later...

  The bus that you are reffering is TIB425R , This Bus were the first to came into SG in 1994 and it was first on Sv 169. The other one , TIB426 also. And now they were Based at KJDEP (Kranji Depot).
• SBS3625D

  27 Jan 06, 19:52

  Originally posted by eX.A.K.R.:

  Two questions regarding MB O405 buses, one belonging to SBS Transit and another belonging to SMRT:
  
  1. I once boarded a MB O405 on route 161 (can't remember whether it was a CAC or OAC, but my memory is leaning towards CAC, and likely a cameo), and I noticed that it's engine sounded different from the other SBS Transit MB O405 buses, and doesn't even remotely sound like SMRT's version. The engine's sound is reminiscent of the Volvo B10M buses (especially when decelerating). Can anybody answer why it sounds so different? I suspect that either it's gearbox or engine has been replaced or modified, or has a different configuration.
  
  2. Most Hispano-bodied MB O405 buses owned by SMRT has rectangular windows at the rear, with right angled-corners. However, there is this particular one (an OAC bus) with a rounded rectangular rear window. Why, and where is that bus now?
  
  More questions later...

  Let me guess, regarding the SBST MB0405, the 2nd gear hums and increases in pitch like the SMRT counterparts and then into 3rd gear, the bus goes whooooo........
  455Y, 394P are some I recall having this noise, I quite like it actually.
  
  That has to do with the hub-reduction axle, hmmm.......I think Suhirman explained that to me but I couldn't understand.
• SBS3625D

  27 Jan 06, 21:40

  Another possibility is another grp of MB0405s SBST, that do not produce the customary hiss when the bus releases brakes, and when it deccelerates, it does not produce the distinctive whooo, whoo, whoo. Dunno why. The voith equipped MB0405s also have the same sounds, minus the slip-gear.
• ^tamago^

  27 Jan 06, 23:04

  Originally posted by eX.A.K.R.:

  Two questions regarding MB O405 buses, one belonging to SBS Transit and another belonging to SMRT:
  
  1. I once boarded a MB O405 on route 161 (can't remember whether it was a CAC or OAC, but my memory is leaning towards CAC, and likely a cameo), and I noticed that it's engine sounded different from the other SBS Transit MB O405 buses, and doesn't even remotely sound like SMRT's version. The engine's sound is reminiscent of the Volvo B10M buses (especially when decelerating). Can anybody answer why it sounds so different? I suspect that either it's gearbox or engine has been replaced or modified, or has a different configuration.
  
  2. Most Hispano-bodied MB O405 buses owned by SMRT has rectangular windows at the rear, with right angled-corners. However, there is this particular one (an OAC bus) with a rounded rectangular rear window. Why, and where is that bus now?
  
  More questions later...

  1. I think you took one of the following OAC buses which have Voith gearbox: 87B, 549K, 550E, 552A, 553Y, 554U, 557L, 558J, 559G, 562X, 564R, 565M, 566K, 567H, 568E, 569C, 570Y, 571U, 572S, 573P, 574L, 575J, 576G, 577D, 578B, 579Z, 580T, 581R. The main characteristic would be its 3 gears are distinct and decelerate with a 'whistle' sound.
  
  2. If I'm not wrong, the ones you took are early O.405's (after 425R) which had the round corners. Then-TIBS eventually asked the bodymaker, Hispano, to do rectangular rear windows.
• stooper

  27 Jan 06, 23:18

  Originally posted by ^tamago^:
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  1. I think you took one of the following OAC buses which have Voith gearbox: 87B, 549K, 550E, 552A, 553Y, 554U, 557L, 558J, 559G, 562X, 564R, 565M, 566K, 567H, 568E, 569C, 570Y, 571U, 572S, 573P, 574L, 575J, 576G, 577D, 578B, 579Z, 580T, 581R. The main characteristic would be its 3 gears are distinct and decelerate with a 'whistle' sound.

  Do you know which Scanias still have original gearboxes?
• SBS1985C

  27 Jan 06, 23:22

  I dont think there are any left.
• ^tamago^

  27 Jan 06, 23:51

  Originally posted by stooper:

  Do you know which Scanias still have original gearboxes?

  i also think no more. i took 3573U, even that is using Voith.
• phillipC

  1 Feb 06, 22:33

  Why there is two queue for Sv 179 at Boon Lay Interchange???
• Apex-LW'21

  1 Feb 06, 22:44

  Originally posted by phillipC:

  Why there is two queue for Sv 179 at Boon Lay Interchange???

  To prevent long queues on one single boarding berths for SV 179.
• samtlk

  2 Feb 06, 01:50

  Originally posted by Apex-LW'21:

  To prevent long queues on one single boarding berths for SV 179.

  And to prevent long queues of buses if the next 2 sv179 came before the first one even leave. 2 queues = Faster boarding time = Lesser bus congestion + Lesser long queues
• 105090

  2 Feb 06, 13:36

  so does 179 allows boardings at rear doors as well?
• samtlk

  2 Feb 06, 14:14

  Originally posted by 105090:

  so does 179 allows boardings at rear doors as well?

  not always
• SBS9889U

  2 Feb 06, 21:31

  Originally posted by samtlk:

  And to prevent long queues of buses if the next 2 sv179 came before the first one even leave. 2 queues = Faster boarding time = Lesser bus congestion + Lesser long queues

  Then which queue moves off first if an sv179 bus arrives?
• SBS 233 X

  2 Feb 06, 21:38

  There is a board saying only AM peak??? then queue the 2nd one...if not queue 1 st one..
• stooper

  2 Feb 06, 22:36

  Originally posted by SBS9889U:

  Then which queue moves off first if an sv179 bus arrives?

  Most of the time, I see people queuing in the first queue anyway in the AM peak.
  In the morning peak, from 8 - 9.30, there is almost no time where there is only 1 bus for boarding... Most of the time is 2 or 3 buses together...
• 105090

  4 Feb 06, 18:16

  does SBS2621X does 81 and 70 nowadays?
• ah-soh

  12 Feb 06, 15:07

  is it true that except for sv65, other partially/fully controlled BBDEP/ARBP bus services which have VO3Xs in their perm fleet have at least 1 perm striders as well?
• ^tamago^

  12 Feb 06, 18:11

  Originally posted by 105090:

  does SBS2621X does 81 and 70 nowadays?

  21 and 70, or 81 and 70?
• 105090

  12 Feb 06, 19:12

  Originally posted by ^tamago^:

  21 and 70, or 81 and 70?

  81 and 70.
  
  i saw it on mornings a few months ago
• SBS 233 X

  24 Feb 06, 17:36

  There is something weird here..SBS3816U is AM 88??? 88 is under BRAM as what I thought. BR and AM are interchangable. Service 88 appear in the dual-depot link.
  
  http://www.sgwiki.com/wiki/Two_depots_controlled_bus_svcs#Service_88_.2828_buses.29
• iveco

  25 Feb 06, 11:01

  Originally posted by SBS 233 X:

  There is something weird here..SBS3816U is AM 88??? 88 is under BRAM as what I thought. BR and AM are interchangable. Service 88 appear in the dual-depot link.
  
  http://www.sgwiki.com/wiki/Two_depots_controlled_bus_svcs#Service_88_.2828_buses.29

  It also says 151 is controlled from 3 depots. Weird, huh?
• alex_cai92

  25 Feb 06, 17:12

  SIMPLY BCOZ
  
  AM more or less = BRAM
  BB more or less = ARBP
  
  ok?
• sinicker

  25 Feb 06, 18:00

  if my ezlink card has low value (let's say, $0.10), can i take NR service home?
• Donavan

  25 Feb 06, 18:42

  Originally posted by ah-soh:

  is it true that except for sv65, other partially/fully controlled BBDEP/ARBP bus services which have VO3Xs in their perm fleet have at least 1 perm striders as well?

  Not true. 14 ARBP/BNDEP has 3 SD MK IIIs, but no Strider.
• SBS1985C

  25 Feb 06, 19:50

  Originally posted by sinicker:

  if my ezlink card has low value (let's say, $0.10), can i take NR service home?

  Mi answer is a yes.