‘Scene’ at the Buses Festival 2021 /5 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

The annual ‘Buses Festival’ this year was held at the ‘East of England Showground’ which is near Peterborough.

 

It is the first time I have attended the show and considering the amount of national publicity that has been lavished on it I was disappointed with the number of vehicles in attendance.

 

Whilst most of the attendees were preserved vehicles, there were some current buses and coaches on display.

 

The quality of vehicles that did attend was good particularly on a day which was interrupted by rain and dark clouds on a regular basis.

 

I think that an event held in the East Midlands will always have difficulties in attracting large numbers of participants.

 

The problem being that the venue is so far from most major centres of population.

 

Time will tell.

 

KSV 104 ‘Companhia Carris de Ferrio de Lisboa’. AEC Regent III / Weymann /1 of 4

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk

 

This bus seems to have been around for ever on the British preservation scene but it always attracts a lot of attention because its the mirror image of the double deck bus as we know it.

 

New in 1954 registered GB-21-07 in Portugal where it spent its working life on the streets of Lisbon where of course, they drive on the right.

 

 

 

 

KSV 104 ‘Companhia Carris de Ferrio de Lisboa’. AEC Regent III / Weymann /2 of 4

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk

 

 

 

 

KSV 104 ‘Companhia Carris de Ferrio de Lisboa’. AEC Regent III / Weymann /3 of 4

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk

 

 

 

 

KSV 104 ‘Companhia Carris de Ferrio de Lisboa’. AEC Regent III / Weymann /4 of 4

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk

 

‘Scene’ at the Buses Festival 2021 /4 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The annual ‘Buses Festival’ this year was held at the ‘East of England Showground’ which is near Peterborough.

 

It was the first time I have attended the show and considering the amount of national publicity that has been lavished on it I was disappointed with the number of vehicles in attendance.

 

Whilst most of the attendees were preserved vehicles, there were some current buses and coaches on display.

 

The quality of vehicles that did attend was good particularly on a day which was interrupted by rain and dark clouds on a regular basis.

 

I think that an event held in the East Midlands will always have difficulties in attracting large numbers of participants.

 

The problem being that the venue is so far from most major centres of population.

 

Time will tell.

 

476 CLT ‘Green Line London Transport’ No. RMC 1476. AEC Routemaster / Park Royal /1 of 2

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

New in 1962.

 

 

 

 

476 CLT ‘Green Line London Transport’ No. RMC 1476. AEC Routemaster / Park Royal /2 of 2

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

‘Scene’ at the Buses Festival 2021 /3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The annual ‘Buses Festival’ this year was held at the ‘East of England Showground’ which is near Peterborough.

 

It is the first time I have attended the show and considering the amount of national publicity that has been lavished on it I was disappointed with the number of vehicles in attendance.

 

Whilst most of the attendees were preserved vehicles, there were some current buses and coaches on display.

 

The quality of vehicles that did attend was good particularly on a day which was interrupted by rain and dark clouds on a regular basis.

 

I think that an event held in the East Midlands will always have difficulties in attracting large numbers of participants.

 

The problem being that the venue is so far from most major centres of population.

 

Time will tell.

 

‘London Transport’s RT type’s basic design dates back to the 1930’s.

 

To me, for a design that is getting on for 80 years old it still looks surprisingly modern.

 

NLE 981 ‘London Transport’ No. RT4317. AEC RTIII / Park Royal 1 of 2

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

NLE 981 ‘London Transport’ No. RT4317. AEC RTIII / Park Royal 2 of 2

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

‘Scene’ at the Buses Festival 2021 /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The annual ‘Buses Festival’ this year was held at the ‘East of England Showground’ which is near Peterborough.

 

It is the first time I have attended the show and considering the amount of national publicity that has been lavished on it I was disappointed with the number of vehicles in attendance.

 

Whilst most of the attendees were preserved vehicles, there were some current buses and coaches on display.

 

The quality of vehicles that did attend was good particularly on a day which was interrupted by rain and dark clouds on a regular basis.

 

I think that an event held in the East Midlands will always have difficulties in attracting large numbers of participants.

 

The problem being that the venue is so far from most major centres of population.

 

Time will tell.

 

The first time in 8 years of blogging that a lorry, truck, wagon, machine, call it what you like has appeared on my blog and what a way to start.

 

The magnificent Volvo FH16.

 

F56 BEN ‘Bus & Coach Repairs', Yaxley, Cambridgeshire. Volvo FH16

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

 

MYB 33 ‘Sun Stream’. Bedford OB / Duple

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

‘Scene’ in Burton on Trent. Optare Versa on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

As most of my regular readers/viewers will know, one of my favourite places when it comes to bus interest.

 

Mainly because of the Covid 19 pandemic, it is over a year ago since I last visited.

 

So, what’s new? (To me at least).

 

YK08 EPA ‘Midland Classic of Burton’ No. 20. Optare Versa V1110 /1

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

New to ‘Nottingham City Transport’ as No. 307 and then taken in part exchange by Alexander Dennis Ltd. for new E200 bodied E20D‘s.

 

Alexander’s then sold them on to ‘Ipswich Buses’.

 

 

 

 

YK08 EPA ‘Midland Classic of Burton’ No. 20. Optare Versa V1110 /2

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

YK08 EPA ‘Midland Classic of Burton’ No. 20. Optare Versa V1110 /3

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

YK08 EPA ‘Midland Classic of Burton’ No. 20. Optare Versa V1110 /4

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

‘Scene’ in Bakewell. ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

When I first got into transport blogging nearly eight years ago, I travelled around my local cities and towns within a 30 mile radius from home gathering images to write and post about.

 

Bakewell featured in a number of early posts but for whatever reason has not done so in recent times.

 

A busy town and an important agricultural centre that has developed as a tourist attraction in its own right.

 

Many of those tourists arrive by bus and coach.

 

There are terminating services from Derby, Chesterfield and Sheffield. A through service from Buxton to Derby and a wide variety of routes serving local villages.

 

Coaches come from far and wide.

 

My favourite spot is just outside the ‘Rutland Arms Hotel’ with buses and coaches coming from three directions. Brilliant!

 

The operator who provides most local services and the one to Chesterfield is ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ who this year celebrate the 100 years that have passed since Henry Hulley founded the company in 1921.

 

Regular reader/viewers of my blog will know that the vehicles of ‘Hulleys’ have appeared on my blog on many occasions this year.

 

‘Hulleys’ other double decker a Volvo B7TL / Wright Gemini appeared in my blog dated 09/05/2021

 

LK09 EKU ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 3. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) Trident / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400 /1

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

New to ‘Metroline’, London, as No. TE944.

 

 

 

 

LK09 EKU ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 3. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) Trident / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400 /2

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

LK09 EKU ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 3. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) Trident / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400 /3

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

LK09 EKU ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 3. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) Trident / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400 /4

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

‘Scene’ in Dunfermline, Scotland on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

More of Peter Rose’s images from North of the border and as usual reproduced with his permission and my thanks.

 

I thought that when ‘Stagecoach’ group got together with Alexander Dennis Ltd. to produce this partially low floor coach that it would sell well being designed to utilise the best of current bus design with the benefits of a coach styling and comfort.

 

Maybe I am wrong but there does not seem to be many takers so far.

 

YX18 LHO ‘Stagecoach Fife Scottish’ No. 54504 ‘express city connect’. Volvo B8RLE / Plaxton Panther LE 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

YX18 LHT ‘Stagecoach Fife Scottish’ No. 54507 ‘express city connect’. Volvo B8RLE / Plaxton Panther LE /1 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

YX18 LHT ‘Stagecoach Fife Scottish’ No. 54507 ‘express city connect’. Volvo B8RLE / Plaxton Panther LE /2 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

‘Scene’ in Sheffield Transport Interchange on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

‘First South Yorkshire’ (FSY) has recently started to re-paint its fleet in an approximation of the liveries of the major operators that made up the fleet when South Yorkshire PTE (which eventually became ‘FSY’) was launched in 1974.

 

These were the Corporation Transport Departments of Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield.

 

For those not familiar with the previous liveries they were,

 

Doncaster, mainly dark red with a purple trim, Rotherham, dark blue and cream and Sheffield azure blue and cream.

 

Dark red with a purple trim might seem a bit of an odd combination but it was smart, stylish and applied in an imaginative way (see final image).

 

BD12 TAV ‘First South Yorkshire’ No. 36225 ‘Doncaster’s red buses’. Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini /1

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

New In 2012 to ‘First Games Transport’ who were one of the providers of transport for the Olympic Games that were held in that year.

 

 

 

 

BD12 TAV ‘First South Yorkshire’ No. 36225 ‘Doncaster’s red buses’. Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini /2

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

BD12 TBU ‘First South Yorkshire’ No. 36227 ‘Doncaster’s red buses’. Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

New In 2012 to ‘First Games Transport’ who were one of the providers of transport for the Olympic Games that were held in that year.

 

 

 

 

JKW 297W ‘South Yorkshire PTE’ No 1797 ‘Doncaster Transport’. Leyland Atlantean / Alexander

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ 

 

'Doncaster Transport’ livery at the time of becoming part of ‘South Yorkshire PTE’.

 

Pictured at Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum.

 

Scene’ in Manchester. ‘Diamond North West’ (DNW) 1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

‘DNW’ is part of ‘Rotala’ PLC.

 

‘Rotala’ who had previously had been a largely West Midlands based operator took over ‘First Manchester’s Bolton depot together with the buses and services operated from there in June 2019.

 

MX70 APF ‘Diamond North West’ No. 40795 ’36/37’. Wright Streetdeck

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Pictured in pink branding for routes 36 and 37.

 

 

 

 

MX70 ARO ‘Diamond North West’ No. 40802 ’36/37’. Wright Streetdeck

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

MX70 ARU ‘Diamond North West’ No. 40803 ’36/37’. Wright Streetdeck

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

‘Scene’ in a rain soaked Derby bus station, ARRIVA mini bus on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

It’s always a gamble taking photographs on a rainy day.

 

However, I believe that modern paints and methods of application allows for the water and any grime below it to be more easily shed than traditional paints would allow.

 

Anyway, judge for yourselves.

 

In the current (September 2021) issue of ‘Buses’ magazine page 36, David Jenkins has penned an excellent article about ‘ARRIVA’ in which amongst other topics, he writes about the companies use of minibuses.

 

Well worth a read if you can get hold of a copy!

 

BF67 WFX ‘ARRIVA Midlands hopperbus’ No. 1001. Mercedes‑Benz Sprinter City 45 /1

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

New to ‘ARRIVA Southern Counties’.

 

There is a reference on the offside coving panel to the ‘University of Nottingham’.

 

There is also a platform at the rear which I think is for carrying cycles.

 

 

BF67 WFX ‘ARRIVA Midlands hopperbus’ No. 1001. Mercedes‑Benz Sprinter City 45 /2

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

BF67 WFX ‘ARRIVA Midlands hopperbus’ No. 1001. Mercedes‑Benz Sprinter City 45 /3

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

‘Scene’ in Derby yet again.’ ‘trentbarton’ on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’.

FN54 AEW ‘trentbarton’ No. 659. Scania L94UB / Wright Solar

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ 

 

I had several times seen a yellow former ex ‘6s’ Scania/Wright at a distance but I had never been close enough to see any detail.

 

There must have been some sort of serious engineering problem for the depot to turn this bus out on a ‘9’s service for the length of time they did.

 

The ‘SORRY ABOUT MY APPEARANCE, I’M HELPING OUT’ under the windscreen sums it up really.

 

Withdrawn to make way for 14 plate Optare Versa’s, I thought they had gone for good.

 

 

 

 

FJ55 BZM ‘trentbarton’ No. 685. Scania L94UB / Wright Solar

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ 

 

So after seeing the first bus, I walked round to the bus station to find another of the same.

 

Now very much in the twilight of their careers, they have served the company well and it was a delight to see them having what might be their final fling.

 

 

 

 

FJ09 XPA ‘trentbarton’ No. 742 ‘X38’. Volvo B7 RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Branded for the X38, the joint service run with ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ between Derby and Burton-on-Trent nonstop via the X38.

 

 

 

 

YD63 VCV‘trentbarton’ No. 828 ‘Heanor’s H1. Optare Versa V1110

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ 

 

 

 

 

 YJ14 BTU ‘trentbarton’ No. 839 ‘the sixes’. Optare Versa V1110

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

‘Scene’ at the East Midlands Airport. Boeing 737 freighters on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

WOW, rails, roads and runways blogs all in seven days. It’s a long time since that happened!

 

The first ‘runways’ blog then for well over a year and all due to Covid-19.

 

Whilst passenger services have plummeted because of the pandemic, freight traffic has rocketed so not surprisingly, this blog illustrates freighters.

 

Many thanks go to friend John Beastall who provided all the identification and operational details.

 

Readers seeking further details on particular aircraft are recommended to Google the aircraft registration. e.g. G-NPTA. 

 

I then go to ‘www.airfleets.net'

 

G-NPTA ‘West Atlantic’. Boeing 737-86NF.

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk

 

Operated by ‘Atlantic Airlines’.

 

Carrying the legend on the fin 

 

“1st-800 Boeing Converted Freighter”.

 

It first flew on 05/02/2004 registered EC-ISL for ‘Futura International’.

 

 

 

TF-BBN ‘bluebirdNORDIC’.  Boeing 737-4B3F 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

It first flew on 28/08/1991 registered F-GFUH for ‘Aeromaritime’.

 

 

 

G-JMCT ‘West Atlantic’. Boeing 737-3Y0F

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ 

 

Operated by ‘Atlantic Airlines’.

 

It first flew on 30/01/1990 as EI-BZH leased to ‘Philippine Airlines’.

 

 

 

EC-MNM ‘swiftair’ Boeing 737-4Y0F

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

It first flew on 01/09/1992 registered N3509J for ‘Boeing’.

 

 

 

TF-BBJ ‘bluebird NORDIC’. Boeing 737-476F

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ 

 

It first flew on 05/02/1991 registered VH-TJK for ‘Australian Airlines’.

‘Scene’ at the Buses Festival 2021 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The annual ‘Buses Festival’ this year was held at the ‘East of England Showground’ which is near Peterborough.

 

It is the first time I have attended the show and considering the amount of national publicity that has been lavished on it I was disappointed with the number of vehicles in attendance.

 

Whilst most of the attendees were preserved vehicles, there were some current buses and coaches on display.

 

The quality of vehicles that did attend was good particularly on a day which was interrupted by rain and dark clouds on a regular basis.

 

I think that an event held in the East Midlands will always have difficulties in attracting large numbers of participants.

 

The problem being that the venue is so far from most major centres of population.

 

Time will tell.

 

AD21 DBL ‘Delaine Buses Ltd.’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC /1 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

The company known to generations of bus enthusiasts simply as ‘The Delaine’ was represented by this immaculate single decker

 

 

 

 

AD21 DBL ‘Delaine Buses Ltd.’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC /2 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

AD21 DBL ‘Delaine Buses Ltd.’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC /3 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

AD21 DBL ‘Delaine Buses Ltd.’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC /4

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

‘Scene’ at Edinburgh Haymarket railway station on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Haymarket, as it is usually known lies just to the west of Edinburgh Waverley station.

 

It has the advantage to the photographer of being open to the elements without the handicap of Waverley's overall roof.

 

These images are the work of friend Peter Rose who took them recently whilst on holiday in Scotland. They are reproduced here with his permission and my thanks.

 

397007 Civity’ Trans Pennine Express’. CAF (Spain) built Electric Multiple Unit

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Working 1S32 Manchester Airport-Edinburgh.

 

 

 

 

390009 Pendolino ‘Avanti West Coast’. Alstom built Electric Multiple Unit

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

New to ‘Virgin West Coast’ and dating from 2001.

 

Working 1S36 Birmingham New St.-Edinburgh.

 

 

 

 

800109 AZUMA ‘LNER’. Hitachi built Bi-mode Multiple Unit 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

The build was a shared effort with some being built in Japan and others being built in the UK at Newton Aycliffe.

 

Dating from 2017-2018.

 

Working 1E11 Aberdeen-London Kings Cross.

 

 

 

 

334038 paired with 334002 Juniper ‘Scotrail’. Alstom, Washwood Heath built Electric Multiple Unit 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ 

 

Exclusive to Scotland for use on outer suburban services, dating from1999-2002

 

Working 2H06 Helensburgh Central-Edinburgh.

 

 

 

 

385 028 ‘Scotrail’ Hitachi built Electric Multiple Unit 

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

The build was a shared effort with some being built in Japan and others being built in the UK at Newton Aycliffe.

 

Exclusive to Scotland, dating from 2017-2019.

 

Working 1P16 Dunblane-Edinburgh.