It is now over 3 years since I last visited Reading in Berkshire so a re-visit was on the cards.
A compact town with excellent transport connections and an interesting selection of buses.
‘Reading buses’ was an early convert to gas power having both single and double deck examples in the fleet.
Mainly built by Scania, the single deckers carry their gas cylinders on the roof.
YN13 PNJ ‘Reading buses’ No. 406 ‘Winnersh Triangle park&ride’.
Scania K270UB / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 300GS
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
YN13 PMX ‘Reading buses’ No. 418 ‘bronze’.
Scania K270UB / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 300GS
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
YN13 PMY ‘Reading buses’ No. 411 ‘ruby’.
Scania K270UB / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 300GS
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
YN13 PLU ‘Reading buses’ No. 403 ‘Mereoak park&ride’’.
Scania K270UB / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 300GS
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
YN14 MYB ‘Reading buses’ No. 432 ‘lime’.
Scania K270UB / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 300GS
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
YR13 PNK ‘Reading buses’ No. 415 ‘the tiger’.
Scania K270UB / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 300GS
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
YR13 PLV ‘Reading buses’ No. 412 ‘the leopard’.
Scania K270UB / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 300GS
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
YR13 PNN ‘Reading buses’ No. 409.
Scania K270UB / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 300GS
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Within the ‘Reading buses’ fleet all buses painted in the generic grey livery are unbranded and work across the fleet as ‘spare’ buses.
RG55 BUS ‘Reading buses’ No. 186.
Optare Solo M1020
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New registered YM55 SVL to ‘Stagecoach Lincolnshire’ as No. 47399.
If memory serves me right, I think that this bus and others like it were originally built for use on services that passed close to Lincolns Castle and Cathedral where exhaust fumes could be damaging to the historic structures.
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