I was discussing my blog with a friend the other day. He did not realize that by double clicking on the images in a blog that this would usually take the viewer to my ‘Flickr’ page where the images can be viewed in a larger format and in greater detail.
‘Kinchbus’, based in Loughborough and a member of the ‘Wellglade’ group introduced its ‘Skylink’ service from Loughborough to Derby via the East Midlands Airport at Castle Donington in 2008.
December 2017 saw three new Mercedes-Benz Citaro’s join the fleet to supplement an earlier batch introduced in 2014.
BF67 WHN ‘‘Kinchbus’ No. 915, ‘Skylink’. Mercedes-Benz Citaro /1
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
BF67 WHP ‘‘Kinchbus’ No. 916, ‘Skylink’. Mercedes-Benz Citaro /1
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
BF67 WHP ‘Kinchbus’ No. 916, ‘Skylink’. Mercedes-Benz Citaro /2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
BF67 WHN ‘‘Kinchbus’ No. 915, ‘Skylink’. Mercedes-Benz Citaro /2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
This might be an opportune time to review the ‘hardware’ used on ‘skylink’ since 2008.
Initially, the route was operated by a fleet of Volvo B7RLE’s with Plaxton Centro bodywork. These started to be phased out in favour of new Mercedes-Benz Citaro’s in 2014.
In 2009 the service was extended to run into St Margarets bus station in Leicester.
(The Volvo’s incidentally were transfered elsewhere in the group to ‘notts+derby’.)
YN08 CWW ‘Kinchbus’ No. 504, ‘Skylink’. Volvo B7RLE / Plaxton Centro
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
This bus was later renumbered to No. 764.
YN08 CWT ‘Kinchbus’ No. 761, ‘Skylink’. Volvo B7RLE / PlaxtonCentro
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
This bus had previously been numbered No. 501.
BX64 WJA ‘Kinchbus’ No. 911, ‘Skylink’. Mercedes-Benz Citaro
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
BX64 WJD ‘Kinchbus’ No. 913, ‘Skylink’. Mercedes-Benz Citaro
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
An improved timetable saw the need for further buses, these being former ‘trentbarton’ (another ‘Wellglade’ group member) Scania L94UBs with Wright Solar bodies.
FN04 HSY’ Kinchbus’ No. 650, ‘Skylink’. Scania L94UB / Wright Solar
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Of course there are times when for operational reasons a non branded bus makes an appearance.
FJ03 VVP ‘Kinchbus’ No 603. Scania L94UB / Wright Solar
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
FJ03 VWG ‘Kinchbus’ No. 618, ‘kinchkard’. Scania L94UB / Wright Solar
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
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