‘Scene’ on a a day out to Buxton

This set of images is to illustrate an article written for a magazine called ‘All Things Local’.

This community magazine is produced and distributed from a base in Kilburn, Derbyshire and covers large areas of the towns of Ripley and Belper.

 

Depending on where you start, your first bus is either a ‘trentbarton’ (tb) ‘the sixes’ or a ‘tb’ ‘red arrow’.

 

Both coincidentally have chassis built by the Swedish company Scania. 

 

‘The red arrow’ coach pictured having bodywork built in Spain by Irizar. 

 

The ‘sixes’ bus having bodywork built by Wright’s of Balymena in Northern Ireland.

 

The ‘Stagecoach’ service X17 to Sheffield is usually operated by specially liveried double deckers which boast amongst other things better quality seating then standard buses bringing them up to semi coach standard.

 

The chassis again is by Scania whilst the bodywork is from Scotland being built by ‘Alexander Dennis Ltd’ (ADL) of Falkirk.

 

‘ADL’ also have a significant bus building plant at Scarborough in North Yorkshire.

 

 

TM Travel operate a mixture of mainly second hand buses on a wide variety of routes across North Derbyshire and South Yorkshire. They can use any of their fleet on any service but I have seen double deckers such as the one pictured in use on the 65.

 

This is a Leyland (remember them ?) Olympian with bodywork produced in Northern Ireland by Alexander (Belfast).

 

The journey South from Buxton could be in the hands of another ‘ADL’ product the Enviro 200.

 

Four of these have been bought by ‘High Peak Buses’ to modernise the buses on this service.

 

For those passengers choosing to travel back to Ripley by ‘yourbus’. You will probably travel on one of the German built Mercedes-Benz Citaro’s.

This highly successful bus has just passed the 40,000 built mark.