THE SHOWBUS AUSTRALIA BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Ventura | Articulated buses in PTV livery
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 Artics in the Ventura fleet have their roots in Grenda's days. The company kept several, primarily for routes with large numbers of school children. They bought this Volgren CR224L bodied Scania L94UA in 2000. Seen in April 2016 still numbered 65 (4665AO) the Scania is seen at Frankston. The artics were regular performers on the routes linking Frankston to the length of the Mornington Peninsula.
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 In May the following year sister vehicle 100 (4700AO) was seen at a wet Dandenong Station.
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 Delivered to Grenda in 2001 was 136 (0150AO) seen in Dandenong depot in December 2018.
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 Showing the buses do bend, 136 was seen again the following month on rail replaceemnt services at the back of Federation Square. The extra seating capacity is useful on this work, even if rail passengers have to travel on buses pushing twenty year old.
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 Ventura has been replacing the ageing L94UA artics with the latest Scania-Volgren combinations. New in January 2021, this Optimus bodied K360UA, 1463 (BS06IT), is seen at Chadstone Shopping Centre that April. With the Queensland factory producing lots of identical buses for Brisbane Transport half a dozen for Ventura were tagged on to the production line, rather than build them in the local Volgren Dandenong plant.
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