‘Scene’ in Beeston (Nottinghamshire)

Beeston, is probably mainly regarded as a suburb of Nottingham. In fact it is a town in its own right.

 

Most recently, it has suffered tremendous upheaval with the years of work that have gone with the building of phase 2 of the tramway that passes through the town on its way from Nottingham to its terminus at Toton Lane (see blog dated 30th. August 2015).

 

Hopefully, the citizens will be able to enjoy the excellent transport service they now have.

 

The original rolling stock for phase 1 were 15 Incentro AT6/5 trams built by ‘Bombardier Transportation’. 

 

Numbered from 201 to 215 they were given names of well known local people. 

 

In time for the opening of phase 2, these trams were refurbished in 2014.

 

NCT No. 214 named Dennis McCarthy, MBE. 

 

A well liked and respected presenter on local BBC Radio who died in 1996.

 

New trams for phase two were 22 Alstom Citadis 302’s which have been delivered over the past 2 years.

 

NCT No. 224

 

The ease with which bus/tram connectivity is made is clearly shown in this image.

 

YN14 MVC

A Scania N230UD with Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) Enviro 400 bodywork.

Working for ‘Nottingham City Transport’ who have recently ordered several batches of this combination so they must be well pleased with them.

 

YN14 MUP

 

PF51 GXZ

An Optare Solo working for ‘trentbarton’ (tb) on service 18 that runs from Nottingham via Beeston and Chilwell to Stapleford.

 

‘yourbus’ of Heanor work a variety of routes in the area normally with the route numbers prefixed with the letter ‘Y’ to distinguish them from other operators routes with the same or similar numbers.

 

BD64 NCN/C

 

A Mercedes-Benz Citaro in the current fleet livery that owes a lot to the current livery of ‘Lothian Buses’.

 

 

 BF62 JYT/V

 

A pair of Mercedes-Benz Citaro's seen in the earlier livery.

 

 

 

W251 PAU

An  elderly Optare Solo of ‘Nottingham City Transport’ branded for the ‘Notts County Council’ sponsored.‘Locallink ‘group of services.

 

FJ58 KKM

 

A Volvo B7RLE with Wright Eclipse bodywork of ‘tb’. 

 

Working on the ‘indigo’ service that links Derby with Nottingham via Long Eaton and Beeston.

 

This service runs 24 hours a day.

 

WP63 WFA

A Scania N230UD with Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) Enviro 400 bodywork. Working for ‘Nottingham City Transport’.

 

Seen in the ‘spare bus’ livery which is used to replace route branded buses that for whatever reason are not available.

 

The multi coloured ‘swoosh’ along the side is made up from the colours carried by route branded buses.

 

YX62 FRZ

 

FIAT running units with bodywork produced by ‘Bluebird’ at Scarborough before they were taken over by ‘Mellors’ of Rochdale.