The City of Cambridge wants rightly in my view to keep unnecessary diesel/petrol engined vehicles out of the city for fear that the pollutants they produce will damage the historic fabric of the city.
To that end an excellent network of Park & Ride services are provided from five points outside the city.
It is almost four years since I last visited and in that time, the buses I recorded then have gone and the livery they wore has been modified.
I should add that on the day I was in Cambridge, after a fairly wet and windy morning all the buses were carrying a degree of ‘weathering’ for which allowance must be made by the viewer.
‘City Of Cambridge’ Park & Ride Map
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Before going into details of the changes, I will illustrate the style of livery in use in 2015.
AE07 KYW ‘Stagecoach East’ No. 19296 ‘park&ride trumpingtoncambridge’. Dennis Trident 2 / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Pictured in 2015, by 2017 it had moved on to ‘Stagecoach East Midland’ based in Lincoln.
While the colours used today remain approximately the same, the new livery is applied in ‘Stagecoach’ corporate style which I suppose makes it easier for the paintshop because the earlier version with the the ‘swirl’ could not have been easy to produce.
SN66 VZS ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No.10794 Trumpington park&ride. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E40D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400MMC
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
This image was captured at the same location as AE07 KYW was four years ago.
SN66 VZM ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No.10790 Madingly Road park&ride. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E40D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400MMC
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
SN66 WAE ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No.10803 Miton park&ride. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E40D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400MMC
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Glenvale’, Liverpool. (Part of the ‘Stagecoach’ group).
SN66 WBD ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No.10807 Newmarket Road park&ride. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E40D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400MMC
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Glenvale’, Liverpool. (Part of the ‘Stagecoach’ group).
SN66 VZV ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No.10797 Babraham Road park&ride. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E40D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400MMC
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Glenvale’, Liverpool. (Part of the ‘Stagecoach’ group).
SN66 VZZ ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No.10801 Cambridge park&ride. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E40D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400MMC
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Glenvale’, Liverpool. (Part of the ‘Stagecoach’ group).
As with any fleet of route branded buses, additional spare buses are required to cover for buses not available on the day.
On the side of the bus apart from the comprehensive map. The wording to the left of the park&ride logo reads
“ your usual colourful bus is being serviced today
this one’s the same just not so colourful”
A nice touch.
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