The Adelaide O-bahn

[mazzarge]

I love this city.Boo Hoo to all you snobs.

[910364]

All merc have now been retired from track work and now do rail replacement all scania L94 have been replaced by K230 and K320 scanias and the only remaining merc is a 0405 one off bus and a few MAN SL202 do track work as well

[Clerence1969]

What I would like to know: Do the old O 305s have automatic gears? Here in Germany, they have been used mostly with manual gears, automatic gears haven t been so usual for busses, those days. I quess the newer ones do have automatic gears?

[Clerence1969]

If someone is interested in: There s an O-Bahn system running at the area of Oberhausen, Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany....

[Clerence1969]

Its interesting for me as a german, to see those old O 305s running in Australia.... Here in Germany, the most of these are already taken out of service. When I was a kid, I was riding those wery often - almost no MANs, I growed up near Stuttgart, so it would have been a "sin" to take anything else but Mercedes, for the local urban transporation company... ^^ Greetings to "Down Under"

[Clerence1969]

... a "Dead Sin" to buy anything else but Mercedes-Benz, for the local Urban Transportation Company.... ^^ - Greetings to Australia!

[OriginalKamil]

lol a retarded version of a bus

[redneckmechanic5]

Worldseries601

how did u get all of this.

hanging round the o bahn all day?

lol

[B58PMCSA]

Nothing quite like the sound of reduction hubs at 100kmh!!!

[PolxenTwo]

I was wondering what those round things on the side of buses were for.

[Worldseries601]

Those would be the guide wheels.

[PolxenTwo]

Yup

[frankovich213]

I never even contemplated that people from down South wouldn't know about the O-bahn until recently one of my friends from Lonsdale came to visit.

I told him he could catch the O-bahn back to the city and he was like "What the hell's the O-Bahn?" lol

So I sent him on his first trip.

[bentleyv8t]

Only one L94UB runs on the O-Bahn ( 1238 ) the others have been removed. And there are now more K230UB's, now numbered to 1444.

[PolxenTwo]

Why did u remove the comment

[swifto0osloth]

because I meant to reply to somebody elses message, instead it came up at the top of the page instead of under someones comment.

btw our trains are ownage too!

[ryanthescooterguy]

Top 5 things you never knew about the O-Bahn & Buses:

1. The flip down signs at the track entrances say 'Caution: Work On Track'

2. The articulated O-Bahn buses (I think!) are equipped with special weight distribution devices.

3. The O-Bahn test track is located next to Grand Junction Rd.

4. There is a special twin-ended O-Bahn recovery vehicle that rescues stranded buses on the track.

5. A few new buses from VIC and NSW were trailed on the O-Bahn!

[Worldseries601]

I already know about Dumbo ryan. (Referring top point 4.)

[ryanthescooterguy]

Another thing I discovered:

The O-Bahn was manufactured by Beton, an Australian concrete firm.

[Worldseries601]

I see.

I'm just wondering why Rann has decided to extend the O-Bahn to West Tce.

[ehhhhh3]

Indeed, I really don't see the point in extending it.

But hey people were saying the same thing about the tram and now everyone uses it.

[PolxenTwo]

Our buses look ownage

[swifto0osloth]

the 0405 makes me beg to differ!!!

[Clerence1969]

The O 305 was in the 1970's/1980 the standard urban bus in Germany. The same body was also used by MAN. In the 60's, the public bus companies decided to standardize the busses, to make maintainance more effective. The next generation was standardizied, too.

[swifto0osloth]

thats awesome

[joannenclayton]

Modbury Interchange!

[B58PMCSA]

May I ask, but do MAN SG280H's still run on the O-Bahn?

[Worldseries601]

No.. they were taken out of service due to turntabling problems.

[venurm1286]

You picked the right time to make a video. Pretty much all of the current O-Bahn fleet will not be running on it within the next 5-10 years. The O305s and O305Gs will be retired soon, the SL202s may be taken off due to gearbox problems, the L94UBs are coming off due to vibration problems and the K230UBs engines aren't coping too well.

[Worldseries601]

Wow! Even the new buses are having problems. I wonder how TT will get out of that mess.

[venurm1286]

An order for new O-Bahn buses (60 rigid and 100 articulated) is due to be announced soon.

[AngryAussie]

OK, it's every bit as weird as it sounded when you described it to me!

[Worldseries601]

The way I see it is. The O-bahn a great success and a disaster at the same time.