‘Scene’ in Cambridge, ‘Stagecoach’ part 1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

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.

 

‘Stagecoach’ are the major operator in the City. 

 

YN14 OXJ ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No. 15958 ‘Gold 13’. Scania N230UD / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400

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

 

 

 

 

AE10 BXG ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No. 15594 ‘citi’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) Trident  / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400

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

 

 

 

 

AE09 GYJ ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No. 15461 ‘greener smarter travel’. Scania N230UD / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400 /1 

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

 

New to ‘Stagecoach in the Fens’.

 

 

 

 

AE09 GYJ ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No. 15461 ‘greener smarter travel’. Scania N230UD / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400 /2 

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

 

New to ‘Stagecoach in the Fens’.

 

 

 

 

AE55 DJY ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No. 18338. Dennis Trident / Alexander ALX 400

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

 

 

 

 

 

AE10 BXS ‘Stagecoach Cambus’ No. 19604 ‘citi’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) Trident / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400

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

 

The fuel filler point behind the drivers window has a collection of green leaves painted on with the wording ‘this bus runs on biofuel’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

AE13 DZW ‘Stagecoach East’ No. 27850. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E30D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 300

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

 

New to ‘Stagecoach Cambus’.

 

The fuel filler point near the radiator has a collection of green leaves painted on with the wording ‘this bus runs on biofuel’.

‘Scene’ in Sheffield. TM Travel (TMT) part 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Hello there folks. Sorry about the break in transmission over the past week or so. Unfortunately I have had a few issues. 

 

However, if you are reading this then it would seem that they are behind me.

 

REMEMBER, All being well, next week, I will be at the ‘Coach & Bus UK19’ show at the NEC so watch this space.

 

 

I was in Sheffield primarily to gather material for another blog when as often happens whilst I was there other buses of interest turned up which resulted in a number of blogs being produced.

 

‘TM Travel’ was founded in 1995 by the father and son team of Tim and Malcolm Watts with just one bus.

 

The company went on to operate widely across South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

 

In 2010 ‘TMT’ became part of the Derbyshire based ‘Wellglade’ group continuing to operate from their own base at Halfway near Sheffield.

 

For part 1 go to blog published17/09/2019.  

 

FJ03 VWF ‘TM Travel’ No. 617. Scania L94UB / Wright Solar

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

 

Wearing the basic dark green livery of ‘trentbarton’s i4 route where it operated daily until late 2018 between Derby and Nottingham.

 

 

 

 

YJ08 PFN ‘TM Travel’ No. 1197. Optare V1110 Versa

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

 

Wearing an earlier ‘TMT’ livery.

 

 

 

 

YJ65 EPD ‘TM Travel’ No. 508 SHEFFIELD’S LINE 6. Optare Solo M9900SR

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YN58 NDV ‘TM Travel’ No. 1202 SHEFFIELD’S LINE 6. Optare Solo M880

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FB02 LFP ‘TM Travel’ No. 1159. Optare Solo M920

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

 

Wearing an earlier ‘TMT’ livery.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MW52 PZD ‘TM Travel’ No. 1160 Optare Solo M920

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

 

New to ‘Go West’, Kings Lynn, Norfolk as its No. 608.

‘Scene’ in Sheffield. TM Travel (TMT) part 1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

COACH & BUS UK19 is being held at the NEC on the 2nd and 3rd. of October 2019. ALL BEING WELL ! I will be attending on the 3rd.

 

I will then publish a blog a day for the next week detailing those entries that caught my eye.

 

My view is that for that week, I will be ahead of most of the professional press. So if you want to see some of what’s new first.

 

Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ Is the place to be.

 

 

I was in Sheffield primarily to gather material for another blog when as often happens whilst I was there other buses of interest turned up which resulted in a number of blogs being produced.

 

‘TM Travel’ was founded in 1995 by the father and son team of Tim and Malcolm Watts with just one bus. 

 

The company went on to operate widely across South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire.

 

In 2010 ‘TMT’ became part of the Derbyshire based ‘Wellglade’ group continuing to operate from their own base at Halfway near Sheffield.

 

SA52 DWC ‘TM Travel’ No. 1170. Volvo B7L / East Lancs Nordic /1

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

 

New to ‘First Glasgow’ as No. VT9.

 

 

 

 

SA52 DWC ‘TM Travel’ No. 1170. Volvo B7L / East Lancs Nordic /2

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

 

New to ‘First Glasgow’ as No. VT9.

 

 

 

 

1294 RU ‘TM Travel’ No. 1167. DAF DB250 / East Lancs Myllenium Lowlander

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

 

 

 

 

YN54 SYG ‘TM Travel’ No. 1171. DAF DB250 / East Lancs Lowlander

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

 

 

 

 

FJ03 VXA ‘TM Travel’ No. 633, ‘SHEFFIELD’S LINE 30. Scania L94UB / Wright Solar

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

 

New to ‘trentbarton’ an associate company of ‘TMT’.

 

 

 

 

YD63 VDX ‘TM Travel’ No. 835, ‘SHEFFIELD’S LINE 30. Optare V1110 Versa

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

‘Scene’ in Edinburgh. ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 584 ‘Pride Edinburgh’ on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Stuart Montgomery, one of ‘Lothian Buses’ voluntary photographers has appeared as a guest on my blog before.

 

The quality of his output is superb.

 

I think that this particular livery is one of the best that ‘Lothian’ has produced yet and he has agreed to my reproducing 2 of his images here. 

 

The livery is made up from the constituent colours of the spectrum as seen in the Rainbow which are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.

 

I well remember my old work colleague John Barlow teaching me the mnemonic by which I still remember them I.e. ‘Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain’.

 

Gemini 3 Hybrid 584 is in partnership with ‘Pride Edinburgh’ and ‘Lothian Buses’ and is now the organisation's transport partner, helping to promote equality and diversity in and around the capital city.

 

584's rainbow colour splash has been designed by Lothian's in-house design team and gifted to Pride Edinburgh at the Scotia March in June. It's a great hit with the Edinburgh public.

 

Hope you like them.

 

Stuart’s ‘flickr’ address is reproduced below for anyone who would like to view his work in more detail.

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stuart_montgomery/48679101312/in/dateposted-ff/

 

SJ67 MGV ‘Lothian Buses No. 584 ‘PRIDE EDINBURGH’ & ‘Fab u bus’. Volvo B5LH / Wright Eclipse Gemini 3/1

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SJ67 MGV ‘Lothian Buses No. 584 ‘PRIDE EDINBURGH’ & ‘Fab u bus’. Volvo B5LH / Wright Eclipse Gemini 3/2 

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

‘Scene’ in Nottingham, Further Gas Double Deckers on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

COACH & BUS UK19 is being held at the NEC on the 2nd and 3rd. of October 2019. ALL BEING WELL ! I will be attending on the 3rd.

 

I will then publish a blog a day for the next week detailing those entries that caught my eye.

 

My view is that for that week, I will be ahead of most of the professional press. So if you want to see some of what’s new first.

 

Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ Is the place to be.

 

So, to Nottingham’s gas powered deckers and still they continue to arrive !

 

This time it’s ‘Lime Line 58’ that is getting the new buses.

 

Linking the City Centre to Sherwood and Arnold which lies to the North of the City. 

 

YN19 EGJ ‘Nottingham City Transport’ No. 493 ‘Lime Line 58’. Scania N280UD / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400CBG City /1 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YN19 EGY ‘Nottingham City Transport’ No. 496 ‘Lime Line 58’. Scania N280UD/ Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400CBG City /2 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YN19 EGF ‘Nottingham City Transport’ No. 492 ‘Lime Line 58’. Scania N280UD / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400CBG City /3 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YN19 EHE ‘Nottingham City Transport’ No. 501 ‘Lime Line 58'. Scania N280UD / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400CBG City /4

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

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

At the time of the 100th. anniversary of motor bus operation in Sheffield in 2013. 

‘First South Yorkshire’ painted several Wright Gemini/Volvo buses into retro liveries that had graced the fleet in earlier years.

 

One was in the dark blue and cream of Sheffield’s Tramways and the other was in the azure blue and cream of the pre and post war period. 

 

This was the livery that I grew up with and to this day, I don’t think that it has ever been bettered by anyone. Then again, I might, just be, a little bit biased.

 

Surprisingly, six years later, both buses are still wearing the same livery and when I have seen them (usually in the far distance) they are have been working on service No. 51 to Lodge Moor.

 

Unfortunately on the day I caught up with them it was after a lot of rain so the buses do show a small amount of ‘weathering’.

 

There is a further Volvo/Wright Gemini bus painted in ‘South Yorkshire PTE’ colours which I have not, as yet caught up with.

 

Watch this space!

 

YN58 ETX ‘First South Yorkshire No. 37528 ’The Sheffield Corporation Tramways’ No. 1  ‘SHAUN WILSON’. Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse. /1

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YN58 ETX ‘First South Yorkshire No. 37528 ’The Sheffield Corporation Tramways’ No. 1  ‘SHAUN WILSON’. Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse. /2

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YN58 ETX ‘First South Yorkshire No. 37528 ’The Sheffield Corporation Tramways’ No. 1  ‘SHAUN WILSON’. Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse. /3

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

YN58 ETX ‘First South Yorkshire No. 37528 ’The Sheffield Corporation Tramways’ No. 1  ‘SHAUN WILSON’. Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse. /4

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3910 WE ‘First South Yorkshire’ No. 37229 ‘Sheffield Transport No. 229’. Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse /1

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

 

New as FJ58 HYU.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3910 WE ‘First South Yorkshire’ No. 37229 ‘Sheffield Transport No. 229’. Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse /2

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3910 WE ‘First South Yorkshire’ No. 37229 ‘Sheffield Transport No. 229’. Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse /3

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3910 WE ‘First South Yorkshire’ No. 37229 ‘Sheffield Transport No. 229’. Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse /4

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SF55 UAK ‘First South Yorkshire’ No. 69017, ‘Mainline’ No. 1017. Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban

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

 

Also operating on the 51 is a Wright/Volvo saloon painted into Sheffield ‘Mainline’ livery.

 

This bus also worked for a number of years for ‘First South West’ for its ‘Buses of Somerset’ subsidiary.

‘Scene’ on Another trip down memory lane on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Back in the late 1980’s towards the end of Leyland as an independent company they produced a mid engined double decker called the Lion.

 

Leyland had successfully been building rear engined double deckers (Atlantean, Fleetline and Olympian) for 30 years so the mid engine position was different and my view at the time was that it was a bit of a blind alley.

 

They were built on under frames imported from Leyland’s Danish subsidiary and bodied by East Lancs amongst others.

 

Only 32 were produced prior to Leyland being taken over by Volvo who cancelled the project to concentrate on building the Olympian under their own name.

 

‘Nottingham City Transport’ (NCT) bought 2 batches bodied by East Lancs. These were registered F382-6 GVO numbered 382-6 and F387-91 GVO numbered 387-91. The 382-6 buses were fitted with coach seats.

 

I remember them but never got round to photographing them because at the time I was more into video than stills.

 

They served their time and passed Into history.

 

20 years later (2009), I was on a ‘Transpire’ (The Chesterfield Bus Society) organised visit to bus and coach operator ‘Andrews of Tideswell Ltd.’ in Derbyshires Peak District.

 

Parked under trees were a small number of vaguely familiar buses with registrations in the VIL XXXX series.

 

They were, I was told being used on schools contracts.

 

Research proved them to be former ‘NCT’ vehicles.

 

All 5 in F382-6 batch had been sold as a batch to ‘Andrews’

 

They were eventually sold on to a company I believe in Lancashire called ‘Moving People’.

VIL 3382 ‘Andrews’. Leyland Lion / East Lancs

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

 

Formerly F382 GVO with ‘NCT’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

VIL 2983 ‘Andrews’. Leyland Lion / East Lancs

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

 

Formerly F383 GVO with ‘NCT’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

VIL 4784 ‘Andrews’. Leyland Lion / East Lancs

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

 

Formerly F384 GVO with ‘NCT’.

 

Fast forward another 10 years to a visit in 2019 to 

‘Nottingham Heritage Vehicles’.

 

A preservation group located in the old ‘Trent’ garage at Hucknall in Nottinghamshire.

 

There at the back, waiting its turn in the queue to be restored is VIL 3382.

 

VIL 3382 ‘Nottingham City Transport’ No. 382.  Leyland Lion / East Lancs

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

 

So, I did get to photograph one after all these years.