Hello,
I think I'm in charge of saying something about the data I uploaded some hours ago.
Kéolis Dijon (a part of Kéolis and also an operator in Dijon) had 37 VanHool A330 GNV (CNG) buses which were bought by the operator between the years 2004 and 2008 (2004: 14, 2005: 15 (the last 3 arrived in 2006, but I don't know why), 2007: 4 and 2008: 4). The buses got the 258...294 numbers, in the orders of their VINs. Here is a chart written by local public transport observers to see a bit clearer:
http://snodivia.free.fr/?page=NewA330CNG From the site you can also go to a forum, feel free to ask everything.
Well, some buses had their number plates changed, which can be seen easily because all the vehicles were registrated before the change of the number plate systems (111 AA 11/1111 AA 11 -> AA 111 AA). The numbers remained unchanged. There are 5 ones with changed plates: 264 (1290 WT 21 -> BY 504 TG), 280 (5647 XA 21 -> BA 088 TE), 284 (1683 XE 21 -> AK 544 XS), 285 (1684 XE 21 -> AK 670 XS), 286 (1686 XE 21 -> AK 692 XS). I also wanted to attach some pics with the the buses and their former plates, but now I only found this:
264:
http://www.bus-bild.de/bilder/van-hool- ... -12641.jpg
If you would like to see the others, I'll try to find the others (if I remember correctly, these pics helped me to find out the former number plates).
In 2013, keeping those buses became unnecessary because of the growing tramway network in Dijon. In the same year BKV, a Hungarian public transport operator bought all the 37 ones - so I'm sure there is no running A330 GNV in that city although on the chart I linked it's written that they're still in use (but the main chart of the buses already doesn't have them:
http://snodivia.free.fr/index.php?page=parc).
From the autumn of 2013, we keep them in one of the workshops of BKV (BKV-VJSz). Their future number plates will be MPW-601...637, and they'll get them in the order of VIN. They also get a new skyblue livery, but the roof remains white.
Some vehicles started working recently: the first 4 buses are MPW-604, 613, 617, 632 from 01.04.2014, the fifth is 617 from 13.05.2014, the sixth and seventh are 609 and 610 from 14.05.2014 (they won't start running in order). One of the next buses is going to be 635.
All the 37 buses are going to belong to the southern depot of BKV called Dél-Pest. The first ones run on the lines 182 and 184.
I hope I could help you and if you still have questions, I'll try to answer them - I'll watch this topic in the next few days.
01-06
