Brampton uses a numbering scheme where the final two digits as used to denote the type of vehicle and service it is to be used for. Buses used in Zum service start at xx75, while battery electric buses start at xx50. The first two digits are used to denote the fiscal year that the buses are being ordered for.
Thus the battery electric buses being delivered for service next year will be numbered starting at 2650.
Dan
You’re absolutely correct, but it’s also a bit more complicated.
The first two numbers refer to the year of assembly (though not the year they were put in service). This has been the case since the city-operated Brampton Transit was formed in 1976.
Until 2001, the last two numbers were sequential by acquisition. For example, there was bus 9028, an Orion I ordered in 1990, followed by 9129, an Orion V ordered in 1991.
That system didn’t work well in a growing fleet, so it changed with the 2002 order.
At first, Züm buses were numbered starting at XX50 in 2010 and 2011, and with the first artics in 2012, Züm artics were numbered at XX75 and up.
The sole conventional artic, bought used from London, is numbered 0839, as that was the year of assembly, following the buses in the 2008 0801-0838 Nova order.
But Brampton isn’t buying any Züm 40-footers any more, so yeah, the XX50-XX74 are reserved for the battery electric fleet these days.
It’s interesting to see that there are three numbering schemes used in less than 50 years.
