‘Scene’ in Wolverhampton ‘WEST MIDLANDS TRAVEL LTD. 1’ on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

A day out train and tram riding in the West Midlands took friend Peter Rose and myself into pastures new recently when the transport delights of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and West Bromwich were explored.

 

As we have done before, we have combined all the images we gathered on the day. 

 

The credits being joint D.Basford/P.M.Rose.

 

Most buses are named using people’s forenames which reflect the ethnic diversity of the area.

 

The choice of names are suggestions put forward by employees of ‘national express West Midlands’ together with some from the general public.

 

I think that is a nice touch because people of all ages will be happy to ride on ‘their’ bus.

 

 

53 ‘West Midlands Metro’.

CAF Urbos 100, Zaragoza, Spain

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Quite an impressive operation except when a signals failure south of Wolverhampton forced us to catch a packed bus back towards West Bromwich.

 

At the Wolverhampton terminus, the driver enjoys the sunshine whilst he walks the length of the tram before heading back into Birmingham.

 

The area adjacent to the tram terminus has a number of bus stops which were quite busy.

 

Behind he camera, a short walk and a left turn takes you to an excellent bus station which is even busier.

 

 

 

 

SN66 WCA ‘WEST MIDLANDS TRAVEL LTD’, No. 6779, national express West Midlands PLATINUM, 8 8X Wolverhampton & Dudley, Manmeet. 

Alexander Dennis Ltd. E40D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400MMC

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BX13 JPO ‘WEST MIDLANDS TRAVEL LTD’, No. 5417, national express West Midlands, Miya.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. E40H / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400

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SP13 BTE ‘WEST MIDLANDS TRAVEL LTD’, No. 5430, national express West Midlands, Olivia Victoria.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. E40H / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400

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New to ‘Tayside’ who at the time were part of the ‘National Express Group’.

 

 

 

BX54 XSG ‘WEST MIDLANDS TRAVEL LTD’, No. 4619, national express West Midlands, Lucia.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. ALX400

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BX61 LNH ‘WEST MIDLANDS TRAVEL LTD’, No. 4840, national express Coventry, Blueson, Peggy.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. E40D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400

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‘Scene’ in Aberdeen on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Another post featuring buses in Scotland but not on this occasion from friend Peter Rose but from my eldest son Andrew.

 

Posted with his permission and my thanks.

 

SV22 VXK ‘First Aberdeen’ No. 39723, H2 Powered by Hydrogen, Zero Emissions, First 17&18.

Wright Streetdeck FCEV Hydroliner

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Something of a coup for Andrew with this being the first Hydrogen powered bus to make it into my blog.

 

 

 

 

SN09 CBO ‘First Aberdeen’ No. 38205.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. Trident Enviro500 / Alexander Dennis Ltd.

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Another coup for Andrew with the first Trident/Enviro500 to make it into my blog.

 

New to ‘First Glasgow’ who took a batch of 25.

 

Other Enviro500 bodies went to the USA, Canada and the far east but the only other European purchaser that I know of was ‘Dublin Bus’ who bought them on Volvo B9TL chassis.

 

 

 

 

BG58 OME ‘First Aberdeen’ No. 11110.

Mercedes-Benz Citaro articulated

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Aberdeen is known as the ‘Granite City’ and the buildings behind the bus seem to underline that.

 

New to ‘First York’ where I photographed it some years ago.

 

 

 

 

YX65 ZKL ‘Stagecoach Bluebird’ No. 54251.

Volvo B11RT / Plaxton Elite-i

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New to ‘Stagecoach Bluebird Buses’.