‘Scene’ in Derby once more part 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

I normally pace myself to produce eight blogs a month. However I was in Derby last Thursday when this selection turned up in the space of half an hour or so and I thought it sufficiently interesting and newsworthy to publish it now in two parts.

 

For part 1 see blog posted 28/07/2018.

 

According to the driver this bus was working on ‘Rail Replacement Services’  from Derby railway station which is undergoing major refurbishment work which I believe will last until October 2018.

 

BF67 WGA ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ No. 1007 ‘Get on Board’. Mercedes-Benz City Sprinter 45 /1

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

 

 

 

BF67 WGA ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ No. 1007 ‘Get on Board’. Mercedes-Benz City Sprinter 45 /2

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

 

 

BF67 WGA ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ No. 1007 ‘Get on Board’. Mercedes-Benz City Sprinter 45 /3

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

 

 

 

BF67 WGA ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ No. 1007 ‘Get on Board’. Mercedes-Benz City Sprinter 45 /4

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

 

 

 

FJ64 JYP ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ No. No. 3343. Wright Sreetlite D/F

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

 

The first ARRIVA Streetlite I have seen in Derby except for a low emissions demonstrator. (See blog published 12/01/2018).

 

 

BT66 TZE ‘Kinchbus’. Mercedes-Benz Citaro

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

 

Leased from ‘Evobus’ Coventry branded ‘I’m helping out on ‘skylink’.

 

‘skylink’ being the service that links Derby to Leicester via the East Midlands Airport and Loughborough.

 

 

 

RF58 KYE ‘Laver Holidays’ Volkswagen minibus

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

 

Many operators these days use mini buses for crew changes or for transferring passengers. ‘Laver Holidays’ are part of the ‘Skills’ group.

 

 

 

 

‘Scene’ in Derby once more part 1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

I normally pace myself to produce eight blogs a month. However I was in Derby when this selection turned up in the space of half an hour or so and I thought it sufficiently interesting and newsworthy to publish it now in two parts.

 

I should explain that Derby has two routes with 38 in the number.

 

Part 1 is all about the 38’s. 

 

‘ARRIVA’s service 38 serves Stenson Fields from Derby and is branded ‘Sapphire 38’.

 

The X38 serves Burton on Trent from Derby. A joint route with ‘ARRIVA’ and ‘trentbarton’ that runs via a long stretch of the A38.

 

The current rolling stock on the ‘Sapphire 38’ are ‘Alexander Dennis Ltd’. (ADL) E40D’s with ‘ADL’ Enviro 400 bodies.

 

Today I saw an addition.

 

YY67 HDL ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ No. 4545 ‘arriva sapphire’. ‘Alexander Dennis Ltd’. E40D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400MMC /1

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

 

 

YY67 HDL ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ No. 4545 ‘arriva sapphire’. ‘Alexander Dennis Ltd’. E40D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400MMC /2

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

 

 

YY67 HDL ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ No. 4545 ‘arriva sapphire’. ‘Alexander Dennis Ltd’. E40D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400MMC /3

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

 

 

 

 

YY67 HDL ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ No. 4545 ‘arriva sapphire’. ‘Alexander Dennis Ltd’. E40D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400MMC /4

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next to turn up was an ‘ARRIVA’ VDL SB200/Wright wearing X38 branding. 

 

This was unusual because the X38 does not normally operate from the bus station.

 

All was explained when it departed on service 38 to Stenson Fields.

 

FJ13 FYM ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ No.’3767 ‘X38’. VDL SB200 / Wright Pulsar 2

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When I left the bus I was travelling on at the Derby Royal Hospital, the bus behind was an (ADL) ‘E40D’ with an ‘ADL’ Enviro 400 body.

 

Although carrying branding for the ARRIVA 38 to Stenson Fields, it was as its indicator shows working a service on the X38 to Burton.

 

As I have said before, Derby never disappoints.

 

YY14 LHD ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ No. 4400 ‘Sapphire 38’. ‘Alexander Dennis Ltd’. ‘E40D’ / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘Scene’ at Reading and Oxford Railway Stations on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Class 800 ‘Great Western Railway’ No. 800 006. Hitachi Super Express

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

 

Brand new only having been introduced in January 2018 as part of the UK Government's 

‘Intercity Express Programme’ (IEP).

 

 

 

Class 43 ‘Great Western Railway’ No. 43016. HST

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

 

 

 

Class 165 ‘Great Western Railway’ No. 165111. BREL York built DMU

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

 

 

 

 

Class 43 ‘First Great Western’ No. 43069. HST

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

 

 

 

 

Class 450 ‘Southwest Trains’ No. 450 039 Siemens Desiro EMU 

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

Class 168 ‘Chiltern Railways’ No. 168322 Clubman. Adtranz/ Bombardier built DMU

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

 

Originally built for ‘TransPennine Express’ as Class 170’s but were converted to 168/3’s  to run with new build Class 168’s.

 

 

 

Class 221 ‘crosscountry’ No. 221 140 Super Voyager. Bombardier Belgium built DMU

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

 

 

 

 

‘Scene’ in Leeds City Bus Station (LCBS). CITYZAP to Manchester on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

‘CITYZAP’, part of the ‘Transdev’ group operate fast services between ‘LCBS’ and York and Manchester.

 

The York operation was covered in my blog dated 24th. January 2018.

 

The York service was successful enough to persuade ‘Transdev’ to run a similar service to Manchester which commenced operation on November 5th. 2017.

 

Unfortunately the service has not been a success and is to be withdrawn after Sunday 22nd. July 2018.

 

I tried the service a last week and it was a superb experience. The vehicles, the drivers, I couldn’t fault it.

 

However, I was one of only four passengers on a mid-day service.

 

A great shame to lose this excellent service, it deserved to do better.

 

ML06 ZAP ‘The Burnley Bus Company’ No. 1871 ‘CITYZAP’. Volvo B7RLR / Wright Eclipse Urban 2 /1

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

 

New as FJ58 LTV.

 

 

 

 

 

ML06 ZAP ‘The Burnley Bus Company’ No. 1871 ‘CITYZAP’. Volvo B7RLR / Wright Eclipse Urban 2 /2

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

 

 

 

 

ML06 ZAP ‘The Burnley Bus Company’ No. 1871 ‘CITYZAP’. Volvo B7RLR / Wright Eclipse Urban 2 /2

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

 

 

ML06 ZAP ‘The Burnley Bus Company’ No. 1871 ‘CITYZAP’. Volvo B7RLR / Wright Eclipse Urban 2 /4

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘Scene’, new to me in Nottingham on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The bus service between Chesterfield and Nottingham which runs via Mansfield has been run by ‘Stagecoach’ and ‘trentbarton’ for some years as a joint operation.

 

Branded ‘Pronto’, the buses share a very similar but not identical pink and plum livery.

 

In the past, usually run with single deckers, the ‘Stagecoach’s contribution has recently been upgraded to double deckers and very pretty they are.

 

 

SN18 KTO ‘Stagecoach Lincolnshire’ No. 10977 ‘Pronto’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E40D  / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400MMC

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

 

 

SN18 KTP ‘Stagecoach Lincolnshire’ No. 10978 ‘Pronto’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E40D  / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400MMC /1

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

 

 

SN18 KTV ‘Stagecoach Lincolnshire’ No. 10981 ‘Pronto’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E40D  / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400MMC

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

 

 

SN18 KTP ‘Stagecoach Lincolnshire’ No. 10978 ‘Pronto’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E40D  / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400MMC /2

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

‘Scene’ in Scarborough once more on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

I took these two images last Thursday the 12th. of June 2018 at about 11-00am..

 

The information available about the bus is limited. 

 

At least it has a number plate although a close inspection shows that it is running on trade plate 077 AT and as such is most likely to be on a test run from the Plaxton works at Eastfield where it was presumably built.

 

The two doors and the colour scheme would suggest a London area operator but it carries no other identification that I can see.

 

Anyone who can supply the missing details will receive a big thank you on my next blog!

 

YY18 TMU Operator unknown, Chassis unknown / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400MMC /1

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

 

 

 

 

 

YY18 TMU Operator unknown, Chassis unknown / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400MMC /2

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

 

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

Scarborough has provided me with a number of blogs over the years and I hope that it will continue to do so.

 

‘East Yorkshire Motor Services’ (EYMS) is the major operator in Scarborough and the company hs been a regular supporter of the local coach and bus builders at Plaxton.

 

‘EYMS’ services in the town are branded ‘Scarborough and District’ and new to the fleet since my last visit are two batches of short length Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D’s.

 

The only previous occasion I have seen this model was when I saw them being built at Plaxton’s recently. (see blog dated 03 June 2018).

 

YX17 NKE ‘East Yorkshire Motor Services’  No. 510 ‘Scarborough and District’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd.Enviro 200MMC

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

 

 

 

YY66 PGZ ‘East Yorkshire Motor Services’  No. 509 ‘Scarborough and District’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd.Enviro 200MMC /1

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

 

 

 

 

YY66 PGZ ‘East Yorkshire Motor Services’  No. 509 ‘Scarborough and District’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd.Enviro 200MMC /2

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

 

 

 

YY66 PGZ ‘East Yorkshire Motor Services’  No. 509 ‘Scarborough and District’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd.Enviro 20MMC /3

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

 

‘Scene’, ‘Bits and Pieces’ 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Most of my blogs have some sort of theme or purpose. 

 

There are however times when I take a photograph of something that does not fit into any category. 

 

It is generally something that just happened to turn up at the time.

 

Collectively they are just ‘Bits and Pieces’. Individually they can be interesting.

 

See if there is anything that you like out of these.

 

For part 1 see blog published 28/03/2018.

 

X15 PSW ‘Paul S. Winson’ (PSW) No 131 Volvo B7TL / Alexander ALX 400

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

 

It is always a pleasure to photograph one of ‘PSW’s vehicles. Whatever the weather, they are  always immaculate.

 

New to ‘Dublin Bus’ as 00-D40075 in 2000.

 

Seen in Loughborough.

 

 

 

X663 WCH ‘Paul S. Winson’ No 118. Dennis Trident 2 / East Lancs Lolyne

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

 

New to ‘Nottingham City Transport’ as its No. 663.

 

Seen in Loughborough.

 

 

 

YT10 UWS’ Nottingham City Transport’ No. 988. ‘NCT app’. Scania N230UD / Optare

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

 

Seen in Nottingham.

 

 

 

DC05 JCU ‘Maghull Coaches’, Liverpool. DAF 250LF / East Lancs Myllenium Lowlander

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

 

Ex ‘Bus Vannin’ but new to ‘Isle of Man National Transport’ registered HMN 290A.

 

I don’t see many ‘Maghull  Coaches’ vehicles but the ones I do see are always spotless.

 

Seen in Southport.

 

 

 

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

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

 

New to ‘Metrobus’, London as its No. 926.

 

Seen in Sheffield.

 

 

 

OOW 999G ‘Southern Independent Television’. Bedford VAL / Dell/Plaxton 

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

 

Seen at RAF Scampton.

 

Custom built by Dell using a Plaxton Panorama front end.

 

 

 

YX14 RZA ‘D&G Bus’ No. 107, Stoke on Trent. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL Enviro 200

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

 

New to ‘Rolling Solutions’, Crewe.

Seen in Uttoxeter.

 

 

BK08 XYH ‘Sapphire Travel’, Nuneaton. SETRA S415HD

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

 

New to ‘City Circle’, Hayes, Middlesex as its No. 52.

 

Seen in Derby Bus Station.

 

 

 

N16 DHH ‘D. & H. Harrod’, Downham Market, Norfolk. Volvo / Volvo

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

 

Seen in Chesterfield Coach Station.

 

‘Scene’ at Showbus 2017. ‘Plaxton’ 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The history of the British bus industry is littered with companies that like shooting stars shone for a while and then fell to Earth.

 

Fortunately ‘Plaxton’ is not one of them.

 

Now part of the ‘Alexander Dennis Ltd.’ group and turning out current standards like the E20D / Enviro 200MMC alongside its own branded coach production.

 

There is however a long history of ‘Plaxton’ production a little of which is shown here. 

 

There will be a small number of blogs about ‘Plaxton’ bodied vehicles seen at ‘Showbus 2017’.

 

For ‘Plaxton’ 1 see blog dated 26/06/2018.

 

 

EUU 117J ‘OK Motor Services’. AEC Reliance /  Plaxton Elite II

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

 

New to ‘Glenton Tours’, London, who regularly specified the centrally positioned door.

 

 

 

 

RBY 43L ‘Hurst’s of Wigan’. Bedford Val 70 / Plaxton Panorama

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

 

New to ‘Exclusive’, Hounslow.

 

 

 

AUP 651L ‘Blue Motors’ (Exmoor). Bedford VAS5 / Plaxton Panorama I

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

 

New to ‘Weardale’, Frosterley.

 

 

 

VWA 290L ‘Sharpe’s (Nottingham). AEC Reliance / Plaxton Panorama Elite III

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

 

New to ‘C G Littlewood’, Sheffield.

 

 

 

TEC 599N ‘Thorne’s. AEC Reliance / Plaxton Elite Express

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

 

New to ‘Jackson’, Kirkby Stephen.

 

 

 

SHH 85M ‘Galleon Tours’. AEC Reliance / Plaxton Elite

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

 

 

 

PWS 492S ‘Badgerline’. Leyland Leopard / Plaxton Paramount

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

 

Originally delivered in 1977 as OWS 178R to ‘Bristol Omnibus Co’ No. 2098 with a Plaxton Supreme body.

 

Re bodied by Plaxton in 1983 following a fire which destroyed the original bodywork.

 

 

 

SOA 674S ‘Midland Red’ No. 674 NBC D/P/ livery. Leyland Leopard / Plaxton Supreme III

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

 

 

 

HRY 698V ‘King of the Road’. Bedford YMT / Plaxton Supreme IV

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