More tomorrow.
Almost at the same time that the Streetlites arrived a batch of 14 Mercedes-Benz Citaro’s joined the fleet.
BF62 JZG ‘yourbus’ No. 3014 ‘y5’. Mercedes-Benz Citaro
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Pictured in Derby Bus Station.
BF62 JYS ‘yourbus’ No. 3016 ‘citylink’. Mercedes-Benz Citaro
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
‘yb’ started a ‘citylink’ service from Derby to Nottingham in direct competition on a section of ‘trentbarton’s (tb) long established ‘red arrow’ service.
They matched the route and frequency which was 6 buses an hour. They even ran from adjacent stands in Derby Bus Station.
At the time, I thought that the low floored Citaro’s would do well against the high floored coaches that ‘tb’ then and still use.
It was not to be and eighteen months later the service was withdrawn.
‘yb’ also chose to compete directly with ‘tb’ on service H1 running between Derby and Heanor. In a short space of time it went from 3 buses an hour to 8. I doubt if anyone made any money.
The service was still running at the time of the shut down.
There were further ventures competing with ‘tb’ on sections of routes from Derby to Ripley and Eastwood. Neither of which lasted.
BD64 NBO ‘yourbus’ No. 3101. Mercedes-Benz Citaro
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
A surprise to me at the 2014 ‘Coach & Bus’ show at the NEC was the appearance of the new model Mercedes-Benz Citaro painted in a new livery that to me at least owed a lot to the livery then worn by the ‘Lothian Buses’ fleet in Edinburgh.
Nonetheless, it was big improvement over what had gone before.
BD64 NBZ ‘yourbus’ No. 3105. Mercedes-Benz Citaro
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Pictured in Derby Bus Station.
BF62 JYU ‘yourbus’ No. 3018. Mercedes-Benz Citaro
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Gradually, the rest of the fleet gained the new colours.
MX62 GVV ‘yourbus’ No. 1204. Wright Streetlite W/F /1
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Pictured in Derby Bus Station.
MX62 GVV ‘yourbus’ No. 1204. Wright Streetlite W/F /2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Pictured in Derby Bus Station.
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