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DSC_9632 - TH21 NDY - VanHool EX17H - Thandi Coaches (FlixBus) - Manchester, Shudehill Interchange 24/04/21
DSC_9972 - OY23 CXX - Neoplan N2216/3SHDL Tourliner - Belle Vue (FlixBus; First Southbound Working of FlixBus 073 Service) - Newcastle, John Dobson Street 27/04/23
Seen heading southbound on the M1 motorway at Milton Keynes on Flixbus service 023 to London Victoria.
A Van Hool EX16M integral (C57FLt) from Thandi Executive of Smethwick.
New to Thandi in April 2021..
Coachbuild/Carroceria: Irizar I6S LNG
Engine/Motorizacion: Scania S410C
Length/Longitud: 14 metres
Plate/Matricula: 2-FPA-635 (2024)
Seen heading northbound on the M1 motorway at Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire on Flixbus service 023 to Manchester via Birmingham.
BV67JZT / FX31 is a 2018 Scania K410EB6 with Caetano Levante 2 bodywork (C56FLt) from Whippet Coaches of Swavesey.
New to Whippet in January 2018 for National Express services.
DSC_9832 - TEC32 - TT21 NDX - VanHool EX17H - Thandi Coaches (FlixBus) - Victoria, Buckingham Palace Road 02/07/21
McGill’s Volvo 9700 bodied B11R 0615 (SJ22HBC) is seen here pulling up to the stance at Glasgow Buchanan Bus Station working the 010 to London.
Hi everyone!
I´m happy that I can present my newest creation! It´s the next piece of my minifig scaled RC collection. This time I decided to build a Flixbus. After Flixbus bought the rivalry Eurolines, it became maybe the cheapest way for poor students from Hungary (or not only from Hungary) to travel across Europe. At least for me it was the perfect method at that time! Hope you like it!
Unfortunately the last time I travelled somewhere by a Flixbus was in August 2019. But hopefully it will change in the near future!
Flixbus came often in the middle of the night, just as the Knight Bus did in Harry Potter. That´s why it stands on the destination screen :)
Before you start reading about the boring technical facts and irritating things during the building period, please watch the video!
It took approx 4 months long to build the bus. It´s not the first tiny RC I build. Despite of it I can´t say it didn´t challenge me. Yes, I´m speaking about the lettering and arrows on the sides. Maybe you still remember of the Milka Truck. That lettering has only vertical or horizontal building techniques. That´s why it was possible to do the lettering on each side only 1 stud deep. It was important, because it allowed to put the battery box (the biggest and most inflexible element) between the two walls and staying with the width in 6 studs at the same time. But “FLIXBUS” is more difficult. It is also not always possible to have stud connections (for example letter X, or the diagonal arrows). In this case the letters have to have inside some bigger parts on them, which simply doesn’t allow them to fall out. It means it stays only a two-stud wide space in the middle. That’s enough for the technic chassis, but not for the batteries. And also not for the motors… So only the half of the lengths stayed for the functional parts.
For the steering and propulsion I stole the method from the Milka truck (with vertical motors), where they´ve already proven, that they work really well. The only possible (long enough) space for the battery box was at the back. Fortunately right above the driven wheels. They need the weight on them to increase the friction between the tires and the street. Another positive feature is, that the Sbrick is small enough to be above the letters, so I didn´t have to make the whole bus longer.
Another part of the challenge was to create the diagonal white lines on the front. There was almost nothing inside, which they could be attached to. The reason is, that the moving parts of the steering are there, so it´s simply impossible to put there any other parts without disablement of the steering. Other reason is, that the upside-down parts of the front have already used the space there. At the end I decided to use the rubber bands, without being irritated by the fact, that it´s possible to see them outside, too.
The bus has three axles. The third one is again an axle with some kind of fake suspension. It is just hanging there and doesn´t hold anything, so in theory it can never happen, that the driven wheels leave the ground. Please notice the detail that there are brackets instead of plates on the top of the third mudguards. It creates a bit bigger space in the mudguard for the wheels with the fake suspension. It means, that the bus can win against bigger obstructions.
All in all I really enjoyed working on the bus. Hope you like the result, too! Thanks for watching and reading!
Today (02/07/2020) saw the introduction of new Flixbus service UK063 London Victoria Coach Station to Portsmouth via Wandsworth and Guildford competing with National Express service 030.
A few hardy photographers waited close to the Egerton Road stop in Guildford in anticipation of what would appear on the service. Around midday, the established operator National Express duly arrived with Lucketts of Fareham Scania K410EB6 / Caetano Levante 3 C55FLT X5512 BF68LEJ. Around the same time Flixbus branded BM Coaches of Hounslow Scania K340EB4 / Caetano Levante C48FLT BK15AKG, a coach new in 2015 to Whippet for use on National Express contracts.
This vehicle had earlier arrived with a Seville (Spain) to Lisbon (Portugal) service, I presume this is the return working. Photographed at Lisbon Oriente Bus & Coach station.
One of the newest Flixbus lines - Joensuu-Hamburg
Ollex (Flixbus)
Built: 2024
Estonia, Tallinn, Reisisadama D-terminal
McGill’s Volvo 9700 bodied B11R 0622 (SJ23HVG) is seen here at Perth Broxden P&R working the 093 to Perth.
Still looking fresh out the box at the time, McGill’s Volvo 9700 bodied B11R 0623 (SJ23HVH) is seen here pulling up to the stance at Glasgow Buchanan Bus Station working the 091 to Aberdeen.
Sadly only a few days after I took this pic, the bus was involved in an accident so despite only being introduced into service recently I doubt we’ll be seeing it back out for the foreseeable future!
DSC_0976 - 55027 - YY65 VXC - Volvo B11R/Plaxton Elite i LHD - Stagecoach Warwickshire (Flixbus; Megabus.com - Megabus Europe Livery) - Victoria, Elizabeth Street 10/09/16