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BayHopper DX (Revised)

(The first thing worthy of mention is that the original version of this reskin has appeared in one of Frantic's videos:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od-oltPZh9U&list=LLoaOleXAzvE_jt0XulHBnpA

The Bayhopper is the bus network serving the city of Tauranga and surrounding towns (such at Kati Kati and Te Puke). First launching sometime in the early 2000's, it's still going strong after almost 20 years. Back in December 2018, the network went through its 2nd major redesign. This saw an 'upgrade' to the bus routes, and the replacement of GoBus (as the bus providor) with NZBus. Currently the list of routes in Tauranga are as follows:

City Link - CBD to Mount Maunganui (returning via Bayfair and Hewletts Road)
Crosstown - Bayfair to Tauranga Crossing
Gold Line - Mount Maunganui to Papamoa Plaza
Hospital Link - Tauranga Hospital to Mount Maunganui (via Hewletts Road and Bayfair, returns via Mount Maunganui)
1 - CBD to Pyes Pa
30 - Bayfair to Papamoa Beach
30x - CBD to Papamoa (stops only at Bayfair, peak-hours only)
33 - Bayfair to Papamoa Beach
36 - CBD to Papamoa via Maungatapu
40 - CBD to Welcome Bay
41 - CBD to Maungatapu
52x - CBD to Tauranga Crossing (express via Takitimu Drive, peak-hours only)
55 - CBD to Ohauiti
59 - CBD to Greerton (via Sunvale)
60 - CBD to Cambridge Heights
62 - CBD to Bethlehem
70 - CBD to Matua (via Ngatai Road, peak-hours only)
71 - CBD to Matua (via Judea and Brookfield)
72 - CBD to Otumoetai
221 - Bayfair to Te Puke

The buses serve most (if not, all) of Tauranga's important shopping centres. These include Bayfair, Fraser Cove, Tauranga Crossing, Bethlehem Town Centre and the cramped hell-hole that is Maunganui Road.

Currently there are two types of bus operating on the Tauranga section of the Bayhopper network. These are the Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 (most of which came from Auckland) and some electric buses I know almost nothing about. As a Tauranga local, I can safely say that only seeing Enviro 200's most of the time is incredibly boring. That's not to say the service is bad, because it isn't.

As you can probably tell, this reskin has the number of a real DX.

DXB 5051 was built by General Electric at their plant in Erie, Pennsylvania. The locomotive entered service in November 1972, being one of the oldest DX's. As with most DX's at the time, the engine was put to work running freight trains up and down the North Island Main Trunk. In their early years they were known for one DX being able to do the work of two DA's. The entire class was first outshopped in the distinctive Clockwork Orange livery.

DX 2604 was renumbered as 5051 in late 1978, as part of the introduction of the Traffic Monitoring System. Like a few other classmates, 5051 was still wearing Clockwork Orange in the 1980's. She wasn't repainted in the International Orange livery until 1983. When the DX class was first delivered, they were all fitted with a small two-piece windscreen on the front of the cab. This was replaced by a large one-piece design in the late 1980's as part of the introduction of single-man crewing. DX 5051 continued to operate in the North Island, while a lot of her classmates were transferred to the South Island.

In 1997, the engine was repainted in the Tranz Rail blue livery. This was two years after the private Tranz Rail company came along, and started New Zealand's 13 year long experiment with railway privatisation. Thankfully this was done away with in July 2008.

5051 continued to serve as a standard DX until 2009, being spared from being repainted in the ugly Toll Rail livery. In May 2009, she was sent to Hutt Workshops for an overhaul. The work included repainting in KiwiRail colours, reclassification as DXB 5051, installation of the GE 'Brightstar' engine management system and a new cab. The engine returned to service not long after the overhaul.

Over the next 10 years, the DX class began to disappear from the North Island, as a direct result of the extremely unwelcome invasion of the DL class (the first of which entered service in 2011). The entire class is now in the South Island, which is something I am very angry about. DXB's 5051 and 5074 were the last of their class to run in the North Island. 5074 was transferred south in September 2019, leaving 5051 to go to Hutt Workshops for another overhaul. This was finished in December 2019. And then KiwiRail did something absolutely stupid. They only ran 5051 around the Wellington and Palmerston North area for a week or two, without giving ANY consideration to the idea of running the DXB to...oh, I don't know.....TAURANGA or NEW PLYMOUTH or AUCKLAND.

Following this infuriating situation, it only got MORE infuriating. DXB 5051 has now been transferred to the South Island.