Ex-Sentosa B10Ms on Turf City services

^tamago^ SG

buses that usually appear on these services:

Ang Mo Kio
PA4686A (very noisy engine, radiator fan belt faulty)
PA4693D (old SH959S) (very slow acceleration)
PA4682K (very noisy engine, poor suspension)
PA4683H
PA912Z (previously TPY)
PA919E (previously TPY)

Toa Payoh
PA4684E
PA4696X (old SH954L) (very good acceleration & powerful engine, breeze to take)
PA4694B
PA908L (previously CLE)

Clementi
PA4688U
PA4689S
PA4691J (old SH962G) (bus very shaky when bus stopped in "drive" mode)
PA4697T (old SH952K) (very good acceleration & powerful engine, breeze to take)

MIA
PA841U
PA903A

xin1jun2 SG

might as well dump those mark 4s at hg and serve regular services. se enow the scanias and volvos are doing servere heavy serviice rotation. a toital wastage of resouces

ZYX

SBS9818A SG

Where is 4696X? Disappeared again ah?

sbst275 SG

They are actually ex sentosa bus (If I’m not wrong)

sbst275 SG

Sorry, I didn't look at the heading clearly

Sorry for that

service_238 SG

Originally posted by ^tamago^:
today. not sure if deployment will be permanent:

Ang Mo Kio
[b]PA4682K (very noisy engine, poor suspension)
PA4683H
PA4693D (old SH959S) (very slow acceleration)

Toa Payoh
PA912Z
PA919E

Clementi
PA4697T
PA841U
PA903A

PA4694B (SP) is gone for some reason.

it is apparent the SBSL livery paint are new so dun think they will be serving anywhere in revenue svc side.[/b]

TPY Deployment
919 E MIA lately.. sub by 903 A

4694 doing TPY. departs TPY at the top of every hour

SBS9818A SG

4697D has a messed up rear suspension! Bounced very hard on humps.

^tamago^ SG

went to take turf city buses yesterday.

did not see any Scanias. the drivers have told me late last year (when the Comfort buses cameo-ed on Turf City services) that SBST desperately wants to scrap them cos they are aging (close to 10 yrs) and are always breaking down & engine are not powerful anymore. so i suppose they are on their way to the scrapyard already.

more ex-Sentosa B10Ms are lurking around. PA4696X is particularly good. if i'm not wrong, the gearbox is the same as that of the first batch of Voith Habits (1025E to 1060C, 1062Y).

EDIT: Wrong PA rego.

^tamago^ SG

today, it's 4688U's turn to serve on CLE. there's one spare bus at Turf City but i couldn't see its rego.

4689S popped out of nowhere & is serving AMK today.

sbst275 SG

What body are for this special B10M?

What's their length, they are quite short.

^tamago^ SG

i suppose they are 10.6m.

according to my research, it uses PSV body kit assembled by Soon Chow. looks like Duple Metsec but is not, even though Soon Chow has assembled DM buses before.

^tamago^ SG

PA4967T came over to AMK today. It was on CLE a month ago, then went MIA (not in Tufc City compounds or on svc).

meanwhile, of late, 912Z and 919E (from TPY) came over to take over AMK for the past week. 908L, being busy running a unknown shuttle from Redhill MRT every weekday morning, is on TPY svc today.