‘Scene’ in Birmingham Other Operators 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.

 

MX21 AVB ‘DIAMOND (West Midlands)’ No. 40877.

Wright Streetdeck / Wright

on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ 

 

It would seem to be a recent transferee from ‘DIAMOND (NorthWest) Ltd.’ because the route branding in the upper deck windscreen reads; 36/37 Bolton, Walkden, Swinton, Manchester Piccadilly !

 

 

 

 

SN68 AJF ‘DIAMOND (West Midlands)’ No. 32224.

Wright Streetlite D/F

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

 

 

 

 

KBZ 883 ‘South StaffsTravel’, Tamworth.

Volvo B11R / Jonkheere JHV

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

 

New registered SJ16 CVA to ’Morrison’, unknown location.

 

 

 

 

BX65 WCU ‘WEST MIDLANDS TRAVEL LTD’. No. 216, ‘national express’.

Volvo B11RT / Caetano Levante 2

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

 

New to ‘Shaw’ No. 216, Coventry.

 

 

 

 

38 ‘West Midlands Metro’.

CAF Urbos 100, Zaragoza, Spain

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

 

Our ‘ride’ to Wolverhampton.

 

‘Scene’ by Peter Rose when Dashing Around Dundee Other Coaching on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk'

Friend Peter recently visited Dundee and has forwarded these images for me to share with you.

 

As usual, they are reproduced here with his permission and my thanks.

 

BV67 JYU ‘Parks of Hamilton’, Scotland’s Driving Force.

Volvo B11RT / Caetano Levante 2

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

 

New in ‘national express’ livery.

 

 

 

 

GT07 BUS ‘Giles Tours’, Newtownards.

Temsa MD 9 /Temsa

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

 

 

 

YJ12 CHD ‘Halls’, Executive Class.

Temsa Safari HD / Temsa

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

 

New to ‘London Bus Hire’, White City.

 

 

 

 

SG22 LTT ‘Ember Core’.

Yutong TCe12

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

 

Peter introduced us to Yutongs electric TCe12 coach in a blog I posted about coaching in Edinburgh on 05/07/2022.

 

With them being based in Dundee, Peter paid them a visit and saw the re-charging operation first hand.

 

 

 

 

SG71 OTF ‘Ember Core’.

Yutong TCe12

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

‘Scene’ on a PSV Circle Organised Visit ‘Skills’ 3’ on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The PSV Circle (of which I have been a member for some years) aims to hold an Annual General Meeting in a different location in the UK every year. (Covid permitting).

 

Usually held at a weekend, they also include visits to operators and other bus related venues for the attending members to visit and enjoy.

 

This year, the location was in my part of the world, the East Midlands.

 

‘Skills’ was the provider of our transport for the day and their base at Bulwell in Nottingham was to be our first visit of this the third day.

 

BV69 KRE ‘SKILLS MOTOR COACHES’ ‘national express’.

Volvo B11R(T) / Caetano Levante 3

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

 

 

 

 

BX16 CHD ‘SKILLS MOTOR COACHES’ ‘national express’.

Volvo B11R(T) / Caetano Levante 2

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

 

 

 

 

YN18 AUP ‘SKILLS MOTOR COACHES’

Scania K410EB6 / Higer

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

 

 

 

 

YN18 AUT ‘SKILLS MOTOR COACHES’

Scania K410EB6 / Higer

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

 

 

 

 

JFZ 8616 MCEWEN COACHES LTD.

Volvo B12B / Caetano Enigma

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

 

New registered FJ04 SNZ to ‘Silverdale’, Nottingham who are part of the ‘Skills’ group.

 

 

 

 

YN14 NOU ‘Owner unknown’.

Irizar i6 / Irizar

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

 

Present on the day but new to ‘Centurion Travel’, Welton, Radstock, Avon.

 

‘Scene’ at Sheffields Meadowhall Transport Interchange /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Meadowhall shopping centre and Meadowhall Transport Interchange lie to the Northeast of the city centre and within a few hundred yards of the M1.

 

Access by both rail and road is easy to all points of the compass.

 

There is a compact bus station which sits alongside the railway station and unusually a tramway terminus. 

 

BV67 JZM ‘Whippet Coaches No. FX27 ‘FLiXBUS’ Coaches’, Cambridge. Scania K410EB6 / Caetano Levante 2

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

 

It’s strange how some  buses can seem to follow you around. I last saw this in an all white livery in Derby on the 27th. of April this year.

 

It appeared on my blog in that livery on 13/05/21 and here it is again. 

 

The paint can hardly be dry!

 

 

 

 

YR59 NPG ‘powells’, Hellaby. Scania N230UD / Scania OmnIcity

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

 

New as No. SD5 to ‘CT Plus’.

 

‘powells’ and ‘CT Plus’ are part of the ‘hct’ group.

 

 

M65 LMY. ‘First South Yorkshire’ No. 35135 ‘X1 STEELLINK’. Wright Streetdeck

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

 

 

 

 

SN18 XYU ‘First South Yorkshire’ No. 35321 ‘Buses for Sheffield’. Wright Streetdeck

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

 

 

 

SK63 KHP ‘First South Yorkshire’ No. 63036. Wright Streetlite D/F

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

 

 

‘Scene’ in Derby Today, 18/05/2021 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

You may remember last weeks blogs regarding the ‘Whippet Coaches’ Scania/ Caetano bodied coach in an ex ‘national express’  plain white livery working for ‘FLiXBUS’.

 

Well this week I am treating you to the real thing.

 

BV67 JZN ‘Whippet Coaches Ltd’, ‘FLiXBUS No. FX28’. Scania K410EB6 / Caetano Levante 2 /1 

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

 

 

 

 

 

BV67 JZN ‘Whippet Coaches Ltd’, ‘FLiXBUS No. FX28’. Scania K410EB6 / Caetano Levante 2 /2 

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

 

 

 

 

 

BV67 JZN ‘Whippet Coaches Ltd’, ‘FLiXBUS No. FX28’. Scania K410EB6 / Caetano Levante 2 /3 

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

 

 

 

 

 

BV67 JZN ‘Whippet Coaches Ltd’, ‘FLiXBUS No. FX28’. Scania K410EB6 / Caetano Levante 2 /4

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

 

‘Scene’ in Derby yet again. Other Operators 1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’.

BV67 JZM ‘Whippet Coaches’, Cambridge ’27'. Scania K410EB6 / Caetano Levante 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

A bit of a mystery. 

 

I know that since being new to ‘Whippet’, it has been on contract to 

‘national express’ (nx). 

 

My guess is that with ‘nx’ cancelling all of their services during the most recent  Covid-19 lockdown, the coach has had its branding removed and it is employed by ‘Whippet’ on whatever work can be found for it.

 

A good policy, because no coach is earning its keep if it’s sat in the depot.

 

The 27 above and behind the door is  I think a carry over from when it worked on (nx) contracts.

 

The service No. 005 is not one that ‘nx’ uses.

 

So, where has it come from, where is it going to and who for?

 

 

 

 

 

 

FJ09 BXN ‘Kinchbus’, Loughborough No. 733. Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse

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

 

I presume that it is working a ‘skylink’ service via the East Midlands Airport but it doesn’t say so.

 

New to ‘trentbarton’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

AGZ 9365 ‘Littles Transport Ltd’ No. B12, Ilkeston. Optare Solo M920

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

 

New to ‘trentbarton’ registered W409 WAL fleet number 409.

 

The first bus in the second batch of Solo’s delivered to ‘tb’ in March 2000.

 

Not many Solo’s make into their 21st. year.

 

 

 

 

 

YX65 RGU ‘Bowers Coaches’ t/a ‘High Peak Buses’, Chapel en le Frith, Derbyshire. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

‘Bowers Coaches’ part of the ‘Centrebus’ group own ‘High Peak Buses’ in partnership with the ‘Wellglade’ group.

 

 

 

 

 

BX65 WBW Scania K440EB4 / Caetano Levante.

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

 

New to ‘Durbin’ t/a ‘South Gloucestershire’, Patchway.