It has be well known for some time that ‘trentbarton’ (tb) were planning to revise the services that cross Trent Bridge and go on to serve West Bridgford, Radcliffe and eventually to Bingham.
Indeed buses have been operating without branding in recent weeks other than stickers advising that work was in progress.
A quick trip into Nottingham showed the new regime to be up and running.
Broadly speaking the main route from Nottingham to Bingham via West Bridgford is run direct in virtually a straight line taking about 45 minutes for the journey depending on traffic and other conditions.
Not surprisingly, it is marketed as ‘rushcliffe mainline’ (Rushcliffe being the borough where the buses largely operate).
It appears to be run mainly by Optare Tempo’s including at least one that previously worked on ‘tb’s ‘black cat’ service from Derby to Mansfield.
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An Optare Tempo that had worked on the earlier services to Bingham in ‘Xprss’ and ‘greens’ days.
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An Optare Tempo that had worked on ‘tb’ black cat’ services.
Branding fore and aft.
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A Volvo B7RLE/Wright, a fleet liveried bus that was helping out.
To the North of the ‘mainline’ runs service ‘rushcliffe villager V1’ which covers a much more circuitous route on its way to Bingham whilst to the South of the ‘mainline’, ‘rushcliffe villager V2’ does something similar.
Operated by Optare Solo’s (at least while I was there) suitably branded.
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An Optare Solo on V1.
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An Optare Solo on V2.
Again front and back branding.
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