‘Scene’ at The Derbyshire Dales Bus Rally 3 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

A new event organised by the ‘Nottingham Heritage Vehicles Charity’ (NHVC) who are based in the old TRENT garage at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire.

 

Friend Peter Rose and I ventured to the ‘Peak Rail’ site at Rowsley railway station in Derbyshire where the event was held.

 

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.

 

YRC 191 ‘Nottingham Heritage Vehicles Charity’.

Leyland Tiger Cub / Alexander

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

 

Delivered to ‘Trent Motor Traction Co. Ltd’ in 1962 as part of a batch of 20 similar vehicles, 191 is fitted with a Dual Purpose (DP) body, which meant it was intended mainly for use on bus services, but fitted with more comfortable seats and a luggage boot it could be used on Express services to coastal resorts at weekends.

 

Part of the NHVC collection and used as the site control bus.

 

I was surprised to see that it has been stripped of its TRENT titling and fleet number.

 

 

 

 

N769 WRC ‘Nottingham City Transport’ No. 769.

Volvo B10M / Alexander PS Dual Purpose

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

 

Part of the NHVC collection.

 

 

 

 

EBC 567T ‘Paul S, Winson’, Loughborough.

Bedford YMT / Unicar Estoril (Spain) /1

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

 

I have seen this coach at Hucknall a number of times and I am assuming that it is part of the NHVC collection.

 

New to ‘Mood’, Shepshed, Leics.

 

 

 

 

EBC 567T ‘Paul S, Winson’, Loughborough.

Bedford YMT / Unicar Estoril (Spain) /2

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

 

 

 

 

YN05 GZB ‘Nottingham Heritage Vehicles Charity’, notts+derby.

Scania L94UB / Wright Solar

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

 

New to ‘Felix’, Stanley, Derbys.

 

 

 

 

PRO 441W ‘Nottingham Heritage Vehicles Charity’, NATIONAL.

Leyland Leopard / Plaxton Supreme IV

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

 

At some stage in its career, it was registered HIL 256.

 

 

‘Scene’ in Burton-on-Trent (BoT) again on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

It is now just over a year (August 3rd. 2022) since the takeover of ‘Midland Classic’ was completed by the ‘ROTALA’ group, rebranding the company ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’.

 

On 09/08/2023 I posted a blog built around friend Peter Rose’s images of the fleet additions since that time.

 

All of course in ‘ROTALA’ blue.

 

This blog illustrates a return to BoT by both of us to look at some of what is left of the ‘Midland Classic’ fleet.

 

Will any of them ever be painted blue??

 

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.

 

YN08 MKO ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’ No. 40520.

Scania N270D / Scania Omnidekka

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

 

New to ‘Reading Transport’ No. 1102.

 

 

 

 

YN64 FWZ ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’ No. 30985.

Scania K230UB / Irizar i3

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

 

New to ‘Menzies’, Heathrow.

 

 

 

 

SN11 BNL ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’ No. 40521.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. E40D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400

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

 

New to ‘First Capital’ No. 33623.

 

 

 

 

YJ66 AOY ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’ No. 30996 

Optare MetroCity V1080MC / Optare

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

 

New to ‘Midland Classic’ No. 6.

 

 

 

JB14 MCL ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’ No. 31429, X12 Burton upon Trent Lichfield.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200

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

 

New to ‘Midland Classic’ No. 1.

 

 

 

YN05 GXL ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’ No. 30901.

Scania L94UB / Wright Solar

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

 

New to ‘Reading Transport’ No. 1012.

 

 

 

 

YN57 FWG ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’ No. 30908, the tutbury jinny.

Scania K230UB / Wright Solar

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

 

New to ‘Reading Transport’ No. 1031.

 

 

 

 

YJ16 DXT ‘Diamond Bus (East Midlands) Ltd’ No. 30992.

Optare MetroCity V1010MC / Optare

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

 

New to ‘Midland Classic’ No. 4.

‘Scene’ outside Nottingham Broadmarsh bus station on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Friend Peter Rose and I were off to Newark to record the closing days of ‘Marshalls of Sutton on Trent’ operating Service 90 from Newark into Nottingham. 

 

See blog posted 16/04/2023.

 

Always being willing to support public transport, we went into Nottingham by train.

 

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

 

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

 

The new Broadmarsh bus station in Nottingham replaced an older facility on much the same site which was no longer fit for purpose.

 

A process that took something approaching five years to achieve.

 

YX63 GXW ‘Nottingham City Transport’ No. 392.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

BN09 FWY ‘Kinchbus’ No. 905

Mercedes-Benz Citaro

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

 

New to fellow ‘Wellglade’ group member ‘trentbarton’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FJ09 BXH ‘trentbarton’ No. 709, the keyworth.

Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

YX67 VFF ‘trentbarton’ No. 128, skylink, Nottingham-East Midlands Airport.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200MMC

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

BV22 VTZ ‘Clarkes of London’, national express.

Scania K410EB6 / Caetano Levante 3 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

FN54 AEZ ‘trentbarton’ No. 662, skylink, Nottingham-East Midlands Airport.

Scania L94UB / Wright Solar

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

 

Now in its 19th. year.

 

 

‘Scene’ in Ilkeston, Derbyshire 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Ilkeston, pronounced ‘Ilson’ by the locals, has not featured in my blogs for some years.

 

Located close to the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border and only ten miles or so from both Derby and Nottingham.

 

The bus services in the town are almost all in the hands of ‘Wellglade’ group companies ‘trentbarton’ and ‘notts+derby’.

YD63 VDM ‘trentbarton’ No. 502, mango.

Optare Solo SR M970

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

 

‘mango’ is ‘tb’s discounted travel card and buses in this branding regularly work around all the routes as a spare bus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

YJ11 ENH ‘trentbarton’ No. 804, my15.

Optare Versa V1110

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

 

The my15 route runs from Ilkeston to Sawley every 15 minutes with one bus an hour being extended to the East Midlands Airport at Castle Donington.

 

The 2011 intake of Versas were the first of their kind in the fleet and became the standard single deck bus until 2014 in which time 49 were purchased.

 

 

 

 

 

 

FJ09 XPB ‘trentbarton’ No. 743. 

Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse

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

 

This image shows the bus in what is the standard, unbranded livery.                 

 

A go anywhere livery.

 

It is also the first time I have seen this livery on a Volvo/Wright.

 

 

 

 

 

 

FJ58 KKM ‘trentbarton’ No. 718, llkeston flyer.

Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse

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

 

The ‘flyer’ in the branding is to indicate that much of the journey is on roads not subject to lower speed limits where the driver (where it is safe to do so) can ‘let it fly’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

YN56 OWP ‘notts+derby’ No.1181.

Optare Solo M920

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

 

New to ‘TM Travel’, Staveley, Derbyshire.

 

 

 

 

 

 

YJ12 NBE ‘trentbarton’ No. 496.

Optare Solo SR M970

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

 

This image shows the bus in what is the standard, unbranded livery.                 

 

A go anywhere livery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

YN08 CWT ‘notts+derby’ No. 761.

Volvo B7RLE / Plaxton Centro

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

 

 

 

‘Scene’ in Bakewell yet again on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

It is not often that I follow a blog from one place with another from the same place. 

 

However!

 

The posting of my blog from Bakewell almost coincided with the arrival of a selection of images received from friend Peter Rose taken in the same place.

 

I decided to post them ‘back to back’ as it were, to show you, the reader/viewer the variety of public transport that can seen in this very popular, riverside, Derbyshire town. 

 

All these image are courtesy of Peter Rose and posted with his permission and my thanks.

 

He enjoys images captured in the environment rather than being close cropped the way I do.

 

Out of respect for his opinion, they are not cropped as close as I would normally do which also allows you to see a bit more of Bakewell!

 

LK57 AYB ‘Hulleys of Baslow’.

Dennis Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 /1

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

 

On lease/loan/hire whatever from ‘Go Coach’, Sevenoaks, Kent.

 

New to ‘Metroline’, London No. TE 846.

 

 

 

 

LK57 AYB ‘Hulleys of Baslow’.

Dennis Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 /2

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

 

The spire of All Saints Church stands well.

 

It has a history dating back over a thousand years to Saxon times.

 

 

 

 

LK57 AYB ‘Hulleys of Baslow’.

Dennis Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 /3

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

 

 

 

 

LIG 6281 ‘Linburg’, Darnall, Sheffield.

BMC 220 Condor

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

 

New registered YJ56 LLO to ‘First West Yorkshire’ No. 68660 where I believe it was employed on transporting schoolchildren.

 

BMC are a Turkish owned producer of a wide range of heavy goods vehicles.

 

The former bank to the right of the bus is a handsome building and is just waiting for some entrepreneur to come along and turn it into a pub or bistro.

 

Any offers???

 

 

 

 

FN04 HSG’ TM Travel’ No. 657.

Scania L94UB / Wright Solar

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

 

Working ‘TMTravel’ service 218 from Sheffield.

 

New to ‘trentbarton’ and wearing the remains of its ‘tb’ livery ‘the sixes’ which serves Bakewell from Derby and Matlock.

 

The old bank stands well.

 

The historic Rutland Arms Hotel overlooking the square that carries its name.

 

 

 

 

K100 BYS ‘Kirbys’, Rayleigh, Essex.

Mercedes-Benz Tourismo

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

 

Arriving with another selection of day trippers.

 

 

 

 

LK58 CSU ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 20.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 / MCV

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

 

New to ‘Metroline’, London No. DM969.

 

If you look close enough, you can just see the buds on the first tree.

 

 

 

 

 

MX11 CZM ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 17, Carsington Connection Ashbourne - Wirksworth - Matlock 110/111

Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200

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

 

One of several of ‘Hulleys’ buses that were painted in the liveries of previous operators in the area.

 

Part of the celebrations of 100 years anniversary of ‘Hulleys’ that happened in 2021

 

In this case it is the livery of ‘Express Motors’ of Hulland Ward, Derbyshire.

 

 

 

 

YJ09 MHN ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 10.

Optare Solo M880

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

 

New to ‘Richmond’, Epsom.

 

 

‘Scene’ in Bakewell once more on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

It is now the middle of March 2023 and the days are getting longer, warmer, drier and brighter (or so I kid myself).

 

Time to come out of hibernation and look at what the world has to offer.

 

One of my favourite spots for bus photography is Bakewell’s Rutland Square.

 

You may not  be aware that by double clicking the images below that they can also be viewed on my ‘Flickr’ pages in a larger format.

 

LJ09 CCK ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 16.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400

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

 

A lovely bus.

 

My view of all the variations on the Enviro400 body styling, 400MMC, 400City, 400EV etc. is that this, the earliest, is the most stylish. Somehow all of the others look a bit like a caricature.

 

New to ‘Travel London’ No. 9444.

 

 

 

 

YX12 DHN ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 8.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200

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

 

Pictured having just circled Bakewell’s War Memorial and in front of The Rutland Arms Hotel.

 

It didn’t know that it was about to carry me back to Chesterfield.

 

New to ‘Newport Transport’ as No. 313.

 

 

 

 

FJ55 BZM ‘TMTravel’ No. 685.

Scania L94UB / Wright Solar

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

 

Working ‘TMTravel’ service 218 from Sheffield.

 

New to ‘trentbarton’ and wearing the remains of its ‘tb’ livery ‘the sixes’ which serves Bakewell from Derby and Matlock.

 

A return then, to its old haunts.

 

 

 

 

YX65 RGU ‘Bowers Coaches’ No. 528, ‘TRANSPEAK’.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200

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

 

The current TRANSPEAK service runs from Derby to Buxton.

 

A mere shadow of the route it was when it ran from Nottingham to Manchester.

 

 

 

 

YJ14 BTU ‘trentbarton’ No. 839, ‘the sixes’.

Optare Versa V1170

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

 

About to circle the War Memorial island before starting its 30 mile journey back south to Derby.

 

 

 

 

 

YX11 CSY ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 23.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. Dart / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200

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

 

One of several of ‘Hulley’s buses that were painted in former liveries used during the 100 years existence of the company, which was celebrated in 2021.

 

 

 

 

YJ57 XWR ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 14.

Optare Solo M950SL

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

 

This image, taken from the upper deck of ‘Hulley’s No. 22, a former London based Dennis Trident / Plaxton President, registration LR52 KXJ (see blog posted 17/02/2023).

 

New to ‘Courtney’, Bracknell, Berkshire but acquired from ‘Go Coach’, Sevenoaks, Kent.

 

 

 

 

YN56 NRZ ‘TM Travel’ No. 1210.

Scania CN94UB / Scania

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

 

This image, taken from the upper deck of ‘Hulley’s No. 22, a former London based Dennis Trident / Plaxton President, registration LR52 KXJ (see blog posted 17/02/2023).

 

Having just crossed the cattle grid that marks the entrance to Chatsworth Park on the road from Baslow.

 

New to ‘uno’, Hertfordshire.