No need for a match wagon because they have transition couplers to join the Comeng train scharfenberg to the standard knuckle coupler.

It’s actually Bendigo, McIntyre and Newport where the Comeng trains get scrapped.

From what I’ve seen they really only strip a handful of useful components to reuse, the glass windows for recycling, then crush the bodyshell seats and all – you’d thinking selling off bits to gunzels would be a good moneyspinner, but it’s all just going through a shredder.

Thanks!

B80 shows up from time to time – I last caught it along with B74 on the steel train back in January 2022.

The original GTS contracts stipulated that bus companies had to use the GTS livery to be part of the system. With the renewal of contracts in about 2010, that requirement was removed and Benders was quick to revert to company livery. McHarry’s has a much bigger fleet and were slower to complete that change.

It seems obvious that the current contracts don’t require PTV livery, but CDC has made a corporate decision to use it. In the early days of the PTV bus livery, I was told that a bus sporting PTV livery could only have advertising on the centre third of the side of the bus, and that tended to be the case at that time.

If that restriction existed, it has either been dropped or is not being enforced, although McHarry’s buses are far more likely to have an all-over wrap than CDC ones. It has been a source of complaint from bus passengers.

Interesting – although CDC Geelong also runs bus advertising with ‘GoTransit Media Group’.

https://www.gotransit.com.au/

The reason for that is not far to seek. McHarry’s Buslines has resisted adopting the PTV bus livery because, I’m told, it would mean restricting the area of a bus that can be covered with vinyl wrap advertising. McHarry’s part-owns a company that provides that advertising.

http://bussignage.com.au/about.html

McHarry’s is a weird one – they dropped the government’s Geelong Transit System livery and replaced it with their own corporate brand, while almost every other Victorian bus operator has moved from corporate brand to PTV.

I also remember the similar Bendigo GoBus livery from the 80s.

Good spotting! They were sent for scrap just a few weeks ago.