‘Scene’ in Eastbourne, Buses on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The title seems a bit brief by my standards, however there will be a further blog titled ‘Scene’ in Eastbourne, Coaches

 

 

Bus services for many years were provided by ‘Eastbourne Corporation Transport’. 

 

In 2008 the company was taken over by ‘Stagecoach’ group.

 

This takeover was scrutinized and passed by The Monopolies and Mergers Commission before full control was achieved in 2009.

 

Today, ‘Stagecoach South East’ is the main operator in the town with ‘Brighton & Hove’ ((B&H) a ‘Go-Ahead’ group company having a strong presence with a group of routes all linking along the coast to Brighton.

 

‘Seaford & District’ operate on mainly tourism based routes.

 

 

 

 

GN61 EVU ‘Stagecoach SouthEast’ No. 15771 ‘the Wave 99’ Scania N230D / Alexander Enviro 400

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

 

New to ‘Stagecoach East Kent’.

 

 

 

GN13 HHR ‘Stagecoach SouthEast’ No. 36900 Dennis Dart SLF 4 / Alexander Enviro 200

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

 

 

 

GX06 DZA ‘Stagecoach SouthEast’ No. 27519 ADL Enviro 300 / Transbus Enviro 300

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

 

New to ‘Stagecoach East Kent’.

 

 

 

BX15 ONS ‘Brighton & Hove' No. 940 ‘Coaster’ Mercedes-Benz / Wright Streetdeck /1

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

 

 

 

BX15 ONS ‘Brighton & Hove' No. 940 ‘Coaster’ Mercedes-Benz / Wright Streetdeck /2

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

 

 

 

 

 YH54 AOM ‘Brighton & Hove' No.  637 Scania N94UD OmniDekka / East Lancs

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

 

Seen ‘B&H’ fleet livery.

 

 

 

V309 KGW ‘Seaford & District’ No. TA9 ‘Eastbourne Sightseeing’ Dennis Trident 2 / Alexander ALX 400

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

 

New to ‘Connex’ (London) as its TA9 which it still retains.

 

 

 

SFZ 404 ‘Seaford & District’ No. 819 ‘Eastbourne Sightseeing’ Dennis Trident 2 / East Lancs Lolyne

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

 

New in 1999 as T819 RFG to ‘Brighton & Hove’ as its 819 which it retains. Then to ‘Geldard’, Leeds.

 

 

SFZ 131 ‘Seaford & District’ No. 349 ‘Eastbourne Sightseeing’ Volvo Olympian / Alexander (Belfast) ‘R’

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

 

New as 97-D-343 in 1997 to ‘Dublin Bus’. Then to ‘Bath Bus Company’ as P773 SWC.

 

 

 

 

‘Scene’ in the SouthWest.’Citybus’and others in Plymouth on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

I have visited Plymouth on a number of occasions down the years and I always find something of interest.

 

Like many fleets, ‘Plymouth Citybus’ (part of the ‘Go-Ahead Group’) has a variety of brands within the fleet.

 

Possibly the most common is ‘citybus’.

 

 

PF06 ENL ‘Plymouth citybus’ No. 370 ‘city’ Scania N94UB / East Lancs

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

 

New to ‘Thames Travel’ (another ‘Go-Ahead’ group company).

 

 

 

 

 

WX62 HHE ‘Plymouth citybus’ No. 707 ‘city’ MAN 18.270 EcoCity / Caetano

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

 

New to ‘Anglian Bus’.

 

 

 

The next 2 images of buses built by the same builder seven years apart show that although a lot has changed mechanically, there is very little difference in appearance.

 

 

WA08 LDJ ‘Plymouth citybus’ No. 137 ‘city’ Dennis Dart SLF / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200

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

 

 

 

WJ65 HMA ‘Plymouth citybus’ No. 147 ‘city’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D

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

 

 

 

 

WJ55 HLR ‘Plymouth citybus’ No. 87 ‘city’ Mercedes-Benz Citaro

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

 

 

 

 

 

The Dennis Dart is alive and well in Plymouth with a number of operators.

 

LX05 EYW ‘Plymouth citybus’ No. 255 ‘city’ Dennis Dart SLF / Plaxton Mini Pointer

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

 

This one being new to ‘London General’.

 

 

 

 

WA03 BHW ‘Plymouth citybus’ No. 67 ‘city’ Dennis Dart SLF / Plaxton Pointer

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

 

 

 

 

 

WA64 JVV ‘Plymouth citybus’ No. 72 ‘SuperRider’ Dennis Dart SLF / Plaxton Pointer

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

 

Seen in an earlier livery.

 

 

 

 

 

BX54 DLD ‘JACKETTS’ Dennis Dart SLF / Plaxton Pointer

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

 

 

 

 

 

PX05 EKV ’Stagecoach South West’ No. 34686 Dennis Dart SLF / Plaxton Pointer

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

I know that operators move buses around the various fleets within their group for a variety of reasons. I do wonder though about the economics of the exercise.

 

This particular bus, seen in Plymouth was photographed in Carlisle by me nearly 4 years ago. 

 

According to Google maps, Carlisle is 388 miles away.

 

New to ‘Stagecoach North West’.

 

 

 

YX65 RCV ’Stagecoach South West’ No. 26034 ‘park&ride’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D

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

 

 

 

 

SN65 ZHK ’Stagecoach South West’ No. 10495 Alexander Dennis Ltd. E40D

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

 

 

‘Scene’ in Derby 22/09/17 on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The day was autumnal with strong sunshine low in the sky giving strong shadows. It was one of those days where you get what images you can.

 

As usual, I got the best I could.

 

On the 31st, of July this year I published a blog detailing how ‘trentbarton’ were using former ‘the mickleover’ Volvo’s with Wright bodies to upgrade the Cotgrave services in Nottingham.

 

The Scanias with Wright bodies that were previously used on that service were withdrawn and at least one of them is now being operated by fellow ‘Wellglade’ group member 

‘notts+derby’ on service 12A in Derby.

 

The former livery can still be seen where the previous route branding has been removed.

 

 

FJ03 VWR ‘notts+derby No. 622 Scania L94UB / Wright Solar /1

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

 

 

 

FJ03 VWR ‘notts+derby No. 622 Scania L94UB / Wright Solar /2

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

 

 

FJ03 VWR ‘notts+derby No. 622 Scania L94UB / Wright Solar /3

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

 

 

 

FJ03 VWR ‘notts+derby No. 622 Scania L94UB / Wright Solar /4

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

 

‘Scene’ at RAF Scampton, Scandinavian Air Forces. on ‘Dennis Basford’ railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The second weekend in September 2017 saw the the first annual RAF Scampton Airshow which it is hoped will be the first of many.

 

Entrants were many and varied and this will be the first in a small number of ‘blogs’ that will cover some of the more interesting attendees.

 

 

From Sweden came a quartet that covered most of the last 60 years. 

 

SE-DXB  /  29670 ‘Swedish Air Force Historic Flight’ SAAB J-29F Tunnan

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

 

The only time I saw a J29 in ‘the flesh’ so to speak was in Malmo (Sweden) in 1957.

 

Tunnan translates as ‘Flying Barrel’.  An apt choice.

 

 

 

SE-RMD / 32542 Swedish Air Force Historic Flight’ SAAB J-32B Lansen

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

 

Lansen translates as ‘Lance’.

 

 

 

SE-DXP / 35810 Swedish Air Force Historic Flight’ SAAB SK-35C Draken

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

 

The 2 seat trainer version of the J-35.

 

Draken translates as ‘Dragon’.

 

 

SE-DXN /  37098 ‘Swedish Air Force Historic Flight’ SAAB AJS-37 Viggen 

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

 

Viggen translates as ‘Thunderbolt’.

 

 

 

LN-DHY /  PX-K ‘Royal Norwegian Air Force Historic Squadron ’ De Havilland Vampire FB52

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

 

The Vampire FB52 was the export version of the FB6.

 

This aircraft was licence built in Switzerland in 1952 for use by the ‘Swiss Air Force’ with whom it flew as J-1196 until 1990.

 

Withdrawn and sold on, it eventually arrived in Sweden as SE-DXS being sold on again to Norway in 2011.

 

Painted to represent PX-K one of a number of Vampire FB52’s that flew with the ‘Royal Norwegian Air Force’ in the early 1950’s.

 

 

LN-DHZ / PX-M ‘Royal Norwegian Air Force Historic Squadron’ De Havilland Vampire T55

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

 

The Vampire T55 was the export version of the T11.

 

This aircraft was licence built in Switzerland in 1959 for use by the ‘Swiss Air Force’ with whom it flew as U-1120 until 1990.

 

Withdrawn and sold on, it eventually arrived in Norway in 2005.

 

 Painted to represent PX-M one of a number of Vampire T55’s that flew with the ‘Royal Norwegian Air Force’ in the early 1950’s.

‘Scene’ at Showbus 2017. ‘trentbarton mango’ on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk

Only last week, I reported on ‘trentbarton’ (tb) introducing a further colourway on their new Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D’s with ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC bodies.

 

Well, here is another one.

 

This time two buses, numbers 110 and 111 have been painted in a promotional livery for ‘mango’ which is ‘tb’s electronic payment card.

 

YX17 NTL ‘trentbarton’ No. 110 ‘mango’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / ADL Enviro 200MMC /1

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

 

 

 

YX17 NTL ‘trentbarton’ No. 110 ‘mango’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / ADL Enviro 200MMC /2

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

 

 

 

YX17 NTL ‘trentbarton’ No. 110 ‘mango’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / ADL Enviro 200MMC /3

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

 

 

YX17 NTL ‘trentbarton’ No. 110 ‘mango’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / ADL Enviro 200MMC /4

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

 

‘Scene’ in Sheffield 1 on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

As I have said before, my home city. I have not been back for almost a year but as usual, much remains the same and much changes. That’s life I suppose ! Long may it continue.

 

Anyhow less of the philosophy and more of the buses.

 

Sheffield Transport Interchange is private property and permission is required to photograph on the premises.

 

Any of the yellow jacketed security staff should be approached and in my experience, I have never had a problem.

 

 

YR02 ZZU ‘Community Transport for Town & County’ Scania K121B4 / Van Hool Alize

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

 

New to ‘Chalfont Coaches’ and oddly enough operated by ‘Community Transport for Town and County’ by whom I was employed for many years.

 

 

 

YX09 HZJ ‘Hulleys of Baslow ‘Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200 / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200

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

 

New to ‘Dunn Line’ and at one time with ‘Tate’s Travel’ of Barnsley.

 

 

PK13 CGX ‘Silverdale’ (Nottingham) Neoplan Tourliner

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

 

New to ‘Silverdale’ Nottingham who are now part of the ‘Skills Coaches’ group.

 

 

 

YCT 463 ‘Sleafordian’  Volvo B12M / Transbus Paragon

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

 

New to ‘Wallace Arnold Coaches’ as YJ03 VNG.

 

 

 

YN06 JYL ‘TM Travel’ No. 1176 Scania N94UD / East Lancs Omnidekka

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

 

New to ‘Metrobus’ as its No. 926.

 

WS FTG ‘Abbey Travel’ Volvo B10M / Plaxton

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

 

New to ‘Flight’s’ Birmingham.

 

 

 

YD63 VDV ‘TM Travel’ No. 834 Optare Versa

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

 

New to ‘TM Travel’, part of the ‘Wellglade’ group and seen operating on SHEFFIELD’S LINE 30’.

 

 

 

YJ65 EPD ‘TM Travel’ No. 508 Optare Solo SR

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

 

New to ‘TM Travel’, part of the ‘Wellglade’ group and seen operating on ‘SHEFFIELD’S LINE 6’.

 

 

 

J3 YES ‘Ashley Travel’ Volvo B10M / Van Hool Alize

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

 

New as Y659 HWY to ‘Burdett’ of Mosborough.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘Scene’. New on the ‘mainline’ in Nottingham on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

‘trentbarton’ have this past weekend introduced the latest tranche of new Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D’s with ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC bodies.

 

They have been put to work on the ‘mainline’ route that links Nottingham with West Bridgeford, Radcliffe and Bingham which lie to the East ot the City.

 

Previously the route was operated with Optare Tempo’s.

 

Readers may recall my previous blogs dated 09/12/2016 which saw earlier similar buses being launched on ‘the mickleover’ in Derby and on 09/01/2017 when ‘the nines’ linking Derby with Mansfield also received further buses of this type.

 

 

YX67 UXY ‘trentbarton’ No. 118 ‘mainline’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / ADL Enviro 200MMC /1

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

 

 

 

YX67 UXY ‘trentbarton’ No. 118 ‘mainline’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / ADL Enviro 200MMC /2

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

 

 

 

YX67 UXV ‘trentbarton’ No. 116 ‘mainline’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / ADL Enviro 200MMC /1

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

 

 

 

YX67 UXV ‘trentbarton’ No. 116 ‘mainline’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / ADL Enviro 200MMC /2

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

 

‘Scene’ in Southport. ‘Arriva’ on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

One of my earliest ‘blogs’ featured Southport and it is still available. It was published on the 13th. of October 2013.

 

A return visit then was called for.

 

As usual, some things have changed and somethings remain the same.

 

One of the things that is changing is ‘Arriva’s livery and it is a change for the better in my view.

 

CX08 DJK ‘Arriva North West’ No. 2142 ‘Light blue livery’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) Dart /  ‘ADL’ Enviro 200

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

 

 

CX07 CRK ‘Arriva North West’ No. 2633 ‘Light blue livery’ VDL SB120CS / Wright Cadet /1

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

 

 

 

CX07 CRK ‘Arriva North West’ No. 2633 ‘Light blue livery’ VDL SB120CS / Wright Cadet /2

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

 

 

 

CX08 DJU ‘Arriva North West’ No. 2144 ‘Park & Ride’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) Dart /  ‘ADL’ Enviro 200

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

 

In the past, bus services in Southport were run by ’Southport Corporation Transport’ who ‘had a livery of Red and Cream.

‘Arriva’ have chosen to use the same colour combination on its dedicated fleet of ‘Park & Ride’ buses. A nice touch.

 

 

 

 CX08 DJO ‘Arriva North West’ No. 2143 ‘Park & Ride’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) Dart /  ‘ADL’ Enviro 200

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

 

 

 

CX58 GAA ‘Arriva North West’ No. 4412 ADL Trident / ADL Enviro 400

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

 

 

 

YX64 VPT ‘Arriva North West’ No. 4578 ADL E40D / ADL Enviro 400

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

 

 

 

‘Arriva’s standard single decker, the VDL / Wright features large in the fleet.

 

CX06 BHY ‘Arriva North West’ No. 2587 VDL SB200 / Wright Commander

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

 

 

 

CX07 CSY ‘Arriva North West’ No. 2641 VDL SB120 / Wright Cadet

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

 

 

 

MX59 JZG ‘Arriva North West’ No. 2991 VDL SB200CS / Wright Pulsar 2

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

 

Formerly BUS 321 in ‘Arriva’s Malta fleet.

 

 

 

MX10 BZU ‘Arriva North West’ No. 3035 VDL SB200CS / Wright Pulsar 2

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