‘Scene’ on a Day Out with Dennis to Meadowhall.

This set of images is to illustrate an article written for a magazine called ‘All Things Local’.

 

This community magazine is produced and distributed from a base in Kilburn, Derbyshire and covers large areas of the towns of Ripley and Belper.

 

IF YOU ARE TRAVELLING FROM BELPER, 

 

your first bus of the day will be ‘trentbarton’s (tb) ’the sixes’ from Belper to Ripley.

 

A Swedish built Scania chassis carrying a Wright body produced in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.

 

Here 3 of them are seen ‘lurking’ in Belper Bus Station.

 

FJ55 BZR, FJ55 ABV & FJ55 BZN ‘trentbarton’ 689, 684 & 686 Scania L94UB / Wright Solar.

 

FJ09 XPH ‘trentbarton’ 749 Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse.

 

Onward to Chesterfield from Ripley it is ‘tb’s ‘comet’ which does the honours. 

 

These again are Swedish built chassis this time by Volvo but again they have bodywork built in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.

 

Stagecoach provide the next leg to Sheffield and for this they provide Swedish built chassis from Scania with bodywork by Alexander Dennis built in both Scotland and Scarborough.

 

Branded as Stagecoach Gold these buses are built to a higher specification than normal. The most obvious change from the passenger point of view are the higher quality seats.

 

YN64 AOE ‘Stagecoach Yorkshire’ 15194 Scania N230UD / ADL Enviro 400.

 

From Sheffield City centre to Meadowhall, ‘First South Yorkshire’ provide these up market double deckers again produce by Wright’s in Ballymena, Northern Ireland.

 

SM65 LMY ‘First South Yorkshire’ 35135 Wright Streetdeck.