‘Scene’ on Friar Lane, Nottingham today 30th. of September 2013

Nottingham has a variety of bus picking up points. The Victoria Centre and The Broadmarsh Centre are probably the most obvious.

 

Friar Lane is not so obvious but it does have a surprising range of services that terminate or simply call there.

 

Then there are the services that pass on their way to their own termini on Beastmarket Hill.

 

First up must be the service that is the newest which only officially started yesterday.

 

That is ‘trentbarton’s (tb) ‘sawley xprss’. The name says it all really.

 

I was a little disappointed that ‘tb’ have chosen to use fleet liveried vehicles on the service.

 

I rather thought that with (tb)’s flair for publicity that they might have been a bit more adventurous and had some form of route branding.

 

FE02 KFK 

An Optare Solo.

 

 

 

 

 

So what else was on view?

 

FJ58 KKR

A Volvo B7RLE/Wright on the ‘Indigo’.

 

 

L125 LRA

A Volvo B10B/ Northern Counties driver trainer.

 

 

FJ10 EHK

An Optare Solo on the ‘Radcliffe line’

 

 

Y12 GWL

An Optare Tempo 2 on the i4.

 

 

FD54 JYC

An Optare Tempo 1 working the ‘bingham xprss’

 

 

FN54 AEZ

A Scania L94UB/Wright linking Nottingham to the East Midlands Airport.

 

 

FH54 VRY

Another Scania L94UB/Wright deputising for a route branded Solo.

 

 

FJ03 VVU

A further Scania/Wright on route 18 from Stapleford.

 

 

two more (tb) vehicles were,

 

YJ07 VSO

another Optare Tempo1 linking Nottingham with Ilkeston.

 

 

and

FJ03 VWR

Another Scania L94UB/Wright on its way to Cotgrave.

 

 

Nottingham City Transport are represented by,

 

YN53 CFY

A Scania N94UD with East Lancs Coachbuilders body. 

 

This is operating the ‘navy line’ route No.1 to Loughborough.

 

 

YN04 AMX

Another Scania, this time a 94UB with Scania’s own bodywork.

 

 

YT09 YHW

A Scania 270UD with Optare bodywork designed to look like similar East Lancs bodies in the fleet.

 

 

YJ51 XST

An now elderly Optare Solo making a positioning journey.

 

 

YT09 YHS

Another Scania/Optare combination. this one working in from Clifton.

 

 

YJ61 CGU

An Optare Solo SR working in on a different route from Clifton.

 

 

YN04 AMV

Another of the short all Scania N94UB’s in a variation of the Network Maroon livery that I have not seen before.

 

 

 

YX62 ECT

An Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 operated by ‘Marshalls of Sutton on Trent’.

 

This route was at one time run by Nottingham City Transport and links not only to Newark but to Newark Northgate station. So giving Nottingham’s citizens a direct link with the East Coast main railway line.