Friend Peter Rose recently visited the town and has forwarded these images for me to share with you.
As usual, they are posted with Peter’s consent and my thanks to him.
It is almost exactly a year since ‘Midland Classic’ (MC), the major operator in BoT, was taken over by the ‘ROTALA’ group and re-branded as ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’.
The takeover being dated 03/08/2022.
A few of the fleet at the time have moved on and some replacement buses in the blue livery of ‘Diamond Buses’ have arrived to take their place.
However, much of the old fleet was still in daily operation still wearing the ‘MC’ yellow and red livery albeit with ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’. vinyls
and fleet numbers.
MX20 HVK ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’. No. 40726.
Wright Streetdeck
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
A very early import after the takeover.
New to ‘Diamond Bus (North West) Ltd’.
BF15 KFD ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’. No. 40613
Volvo B5TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Yellow Buses’, Bournemouth No.VGW194.
The giving up of bus operation in Bournemouth by ‘Yellow Buses’ recently allowed the ‘ROTALA’ group to acquire a batch of good quality additions to the fleet.
BF15 KFG ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’. No. 40610
Volvo B5TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Yellow Buses’, Bournemouth No.VGW196.
BF15 KFK ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’. No. 40611.
Volvo B5TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Yellow Buses’, Bournemouth No. VGW198.
KW14 MCL ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’. No. 31428.
Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
SN66 WJZ ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd.’ No’. 31422.
Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Johnsons’, Henley-in-Arden whose bus operations were taken over in 2022 by ‘ROTALA’.
YJ16 DDL ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’. No. 30972.
Optare Metrocity V1080MC / Optare
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Central Buses Group’, Birmingham who were taken over by ROTALA in 2018.
YY15 NJF ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’. No. 31417.
Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Johnsons’, Henley-in-Arden whose bus operations were taken over in 2022 by ‘ROTALA’.
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