‘Scene’ outside Nottingham Broadmarsh bus station on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Friend Peter Rose and I were off to Newark to record the closing days of ‘Marshalls of Sutton on Trent’ operating Service 90 from Newark into Nottingham. 

 

See blog posted 16/04/2023.

 

Always being willing to support public transport, we went into Nottingham by train.

 

As we have done before on joint outings, we have combined all the images we have gathered.

 

The credits being joint D.Basford/P.M. Rose.

 

The new Broadmarsh bus station in Nottingham replaced an older facility on much the same site which was no longer fit for purpose.

 

A process that took something approaching five years to achieve.

 

YX63 GXW ‘Nottingham City Transport’ No. 392.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200

on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

 

 

BN09 FWY ‘Kinchbus’ No. 905

Mercedes-Benz Citaro

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

 

New to fellow ‘Wellglade’ group member ‘trentbarton’.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FJ09 BXH ‘trentbarton’ No. 709, the keyworth.

Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

YX67 VFF ‘trentbarton’ No. 128, skylink, Nottingham-East Midlands Airport.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200MMC

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

BV22 VTZ ‘Clarkes of London’, national express.

Scania K410EB6 / Caetano Levante 3 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

FN54 AEZ ‘trentbarton’ No. 662, skylink, Nottingham-East Midlands Airport.

Scania L94UB / Wright Solar

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

 

Now in its 19th. year.

 

 

‘Scene’ in Leicester, ‘Arriva Midlands’ 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

I had not been to Leicester for some years but I had read that the rebuilding of St. Margaret’s Bus Station had been completed so I thought another visit was due.

 

The new bus station has been rebuilt virtually following the original’s footprint.

 

The building is new and it would appear to be equipped with all the facilities  I would expect.

 

The only major change, as far as I could see, is that buses can now leave the bus station directly onto the A594 Burleys Way.

 

A significant saving of both time and fuel.

 

Friend Peter Rose joined me for the day and whilst we were attracted initially by the new St. Margaret’s, we spent most of our time at the nearby Haymarket Bus Station.

 

All the images pictured in this blog are pictured on Haymarket.

 

YJ69 AAV ‘Arriva Midlands’ No. 7102. X6.

Temsa Safari HD12

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

 

The X6 service runs from Leicester to Coventry.

 

New to ‘Arriva The Shires

 

 

 

TUI 7934 ‘Arriva Midlands’ No. 3803, arriva sapphire.

VDL SB200 / Wright Pulsar

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

 

New registered MX13 AKG to ‘Arriva Merseyside’ as No. 3157.

 

 

 

 

 

YX17 NYM ‘Arriva Midlands’ No. 3142.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC

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

 

The nearside, lower panelling seems to have taken a battering.

 

New to ‘Arriva Kent & Surrey’.

 

 

 

 

YJ09 OUB ‘Arriva Midlands’ No. 2530.

Optare Solo M950

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

 

 

 

 

YX17 NLA ‘Arriva Midlands’ No. 3101.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC

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

 

 

 

 

MX61 AWY ‘Arriva Midlands’ No. 3810.

VDL SB200 / Wright Pulsar

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

 

New to ‘Arriva Merseyside’ as No. 3067.

 

 

 

 

BF67 WGU ‘Arriva Midlands’ No. 1014.

Mercedes-Benz Sprinter City 45

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

 

New to ‘Arriva Kent Thameside’.

 

Employed as a crew ferry.

 

 

 

 

YJ61 MJE ‘Arriva Midlands’ No. 2942.

Optare Versa M1110

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

 

New to ‘Arriva Midlands North’.

 

‘Scene’ at SHOWBUS 24/09/2022 /1 Tributes to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

I have attended a number of SHOWBUS events over the years but this was the first time I had attended one at the Hertfordshire County Showgound.

 

The 50th. show and if we are to believe what we read, the last.

 

It would be a great pity if the reputation the SHOWBUS name has built up over the years were to be lost but we shall have to wait and see.

 

Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II made many headlines during 2022. 

 

Many buses have been decorated to celebrate the Queen’s 70 year reign.

 

Unfortunately, following her death, buses in the platinum anniversary livery will do doubt return to their former fleet livery

 

This first tribute, is in respect of the 96 years of her life.

 

SN65 OFY ‘First Essex’ No. 33983 HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II 1926-2022.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. E40D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400MMC

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

 

New to ‘First Glasgow’.

 

 

 

YN16 WVK ‘Stagecoach South East’ No.15270, The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 1952-2022.

Scania N250UD / ‘Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400MMC

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

 

New to ‘Stagecoach East Kent’.

 

 

 

 

SN18 KNJ ‘Stagecoach South’ No.10945,  The Queens Platinum Jubilee 1952-2022.

Scania N250UD / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400MMC

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

 

 

 

 

AE10 BXK’ Stagecoach Cambus’ No. 19597, The Queens Platinum Jubilee 1952-2022.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400

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

 

 

 

 

H132 GVM ‘TOWN & DISTRICT Transport Trust Ltd, HYNDBURN’, HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II PLATINUM JUBILEE

Dennis Dominator / Northern Counties Palatine

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

 

New to ‘GM Buses’. (Greater Manchester) No. 2032.

 

To ‘Stagecoach Manchester’ No. 15032.

 

Possibly the oldest bus in Platinum Jubilee livery, but let that not detract from the excellent finish.

 

 

 

 

YX66 WFF ‘Go-Coach Hire Ltd.’ No. 8345, In celebration of Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200MMC /1

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

 

New to ‘Abellio’ No. 8345.

 

 

 

 

YX66 WFF ‘Go-Coach Hire Ltd.’ No. 8345, In celebration of Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee in 2022.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200MMC /2

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

 

 

 

 

YJ12 CHG ‘Diamond Bus Ltd’. No. 32134. The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

VDL SB200 / Wright Pulsar

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

 

New to ‘Fishwick,’ No. 14, Leyland, Lancs.

 

It came to ‘Diamond Bus Ltd’ when parent ‘Rotala plc’ purchased ‘Claribels’  in February 2022.

 

‘Scene’ in Huddersfield ‘team Pennine’ on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Or ‘uddersfield as we Yorkshire folk are given to calling it.

 

My first real day out ‘bus hunting’ in 2022 was to the two West Yorkshire towns of Halifax and Huddersfield.

 

Only 9 or so miles apart in distance but separated in fact by an enormous hill along the top of which runs the M62.

 

‘team Pennine’ is part of the ‘Transdev’ group being formed in 2021 to take over ‘Yorkshire Tiger’ (YT) which was purchased from ‘Arriva’.

 

Typically of ‘Transdev’, a new bright livery has been introduced whilst the old  ‘YT’ livery is rapidly disappearing.

 

YX18 KZG ‘team Pennine’ No. 727 ‘Huddsquick’.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC

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

 

New to ‘Yorkshire Coastliner’.

 

 

 

P44 TDV ‘team Pennine’ No. 744 ‘DenbyDARTS’.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200

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

 

New registered ‘YX16 OBM’ to ‘NSL Gatwick’.

 

 

 

YX18 KNH ‘team Pennine’ No. 572 ‘Huddsquick’.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC

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

 

New to ‘First South West’ as No. 617.

 

 

 

 

SK68 LZL ‘team Pennine’ No. 728.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC

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

 

New to ‘Chariot’, Isleworth, Middlesex.

 

 

 

 

YK08 ETD ‘team Pennine’ No. 185.

Optare Solo M950

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

 

New to ‘Arriva Durham County’ No. 2511.

 

Still painted in the ‘Yorkshire Tiger’ livery to which the following vinyls have been added.

 

   “Im joining team Pennine… they’re going to make me better”.

 

‘Scene’, in Reading Once More on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

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 array of buses.

 

Most of ‘Reading buses’ services are route and colour branded.

 

That leaves a requirement for ‘spare buses’ to be available where route branded vehicles, for whatever reason are not available.

 

Referred to as the ‘generic’ livery these ‘spare’ buses are painted in a grey livery.

 

WA04 CPZ ‘Reading buses’ No. 536. 

Transbus Trident / Alexander ALX400 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ 

 

New to ‘Stagecoach Devon’ as No. 18062.

 

 

 

 

YN08 MMK ‘Reading buses’ No. 1112. 

Scania N270UD / Scania Omnicity

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

 

 

 

 

YT59 OZO ‘Reading buses’ No. 864. 

Scania N270UD / Optare Omnidekka

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

 

New to ‘Nottingham City Transport’ as No. 973.

 

 

 

 

YX64 VRR ‘Reading buses’ No. 756. 

Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E40D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400MMC

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

 

 

 

 

YN14 MXP ‘Reading buses’ No. 421. 

Scania K270UB / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 300GS

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

 

 

 

 

YY69 TNE ‘Reading buses’ No. 680. 

Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC

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

 

 

 

 

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.

 

‘Scene’ in Huddersfield 4 ‘Arriva Yorkshire’ on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Or ‘uddersfield as we Yorkshire folk are given to calling it.

 

My first real day out ‘bus hunting’ in 2022 was to the two West Yorkshire towns of Halifax and Huddersfield.

 

Only 9 or so miles apart in distance but separated in fact by an enormous hill along the top of which runs the M62 motorway.

 

SN15 LLC ‘Arriva Yorkshire’ No. 1914 ‘MAX’ ‘GRAND YORKSHIRE CONNECTIONS’.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E40D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400

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

 

 

 

 

TWY 7 ‘Arriva Yorkshire’ No. 1546 ‘Arriva Sapphire 229’.

VDL DB300 / Wright Eclipse Gemini 2

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

 

The registration is a ‘cherished’ one, owned by ‘Arriva’.

 

When new, it was registered YJ61 OBW.

 

Interestingly, the cherished registration has been used twice before.

 

The first time was on a Park Royal bodied Leyland PD2 dating from 1957.

 

The second time was on a Northern Counties bodied Leyland Olympian dating from 1988.

 

 

 

 

KIG 7306 ‘Arriva Yorkshire’ No. 1103 ‘254/255’.

Volvo B7RLE / WrightEclipse Urban

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

 

New registered YJ08 DVF to ‘Arriva Yorkshire West’.

 

 

 

YJ15 AXM ‘Arriva Yorkshire’.

Optare Solo M8900SR 

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

 

New to ‘Yorkshire Tiger’.

 

 

 

 

YX17 NKC ‘‘Arriva Yorkshire’ No. 1074 ‘arriva sapphire 231/232.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC /1 

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

 

There are some suggestions on the internet that the chassis might be a Dennis Dart but I have never seen this body style on a Dart chassis before. 

 

New to ‘Yorkshire Tiger’.

 

 

 

 

YX17 NKC ‘‘Arriva Yorkshire’ No. 1074 ‘arriva sapphire 231/232.

Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC /2 

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

 

‘Scene’ in ‘trentbarton’ (tb) service. The Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D/ADL Enviro200MMC Part 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

For part 1 see blog posted12/03/2021. 

 

Since the turn of the 21st. century, ‘tb’s single deck bus intake has comprised mainly of the Wright bodied Scania L94UB, The Wright bodied Volvo B7RLE, the Optare Solo and the Optare Versa.

 

There have been other purchases such as the Optare Tempo but not in large numbers.

 

2016 saw the introduction of the Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC.

 

Since that time upwards of 100 have joined the fleet.

 

There has also been a batch joining fellow ‘Wellglade’ group member ‘Kinchbus’ which were illustrated in my blog posted 28/08/2020.

 

The depots in Derby, Nottingham, Sutton-in-Ashfield and Langley Mill have all received new buses so I will show the images in the order in which the buses were delivered.

 

At the moment, there is a significant number of these buses still on order but rumour has it that they have been delayed for the time being because of the fallout from the Covid 19 pandemic.

 

YX67 VFB ‘trentbarton’ No. 124 ‘skylink’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

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

 

 

 

 

YY18 TRZ  ‘trentbarton’ No. 214 ‘indigo’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

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

 

‘indigo’ operates from the Nottingham depot 24/7 between Derby and Nottingham.

 

 

 

 

YX68 ULM ‘trentbarton’ No. 139 ‘i4’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

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

 

i4 operates from Nottingham on services linking Sandiacre, Stapleford and the Queens Medical Centre to Derby.

 

 

 

 

YY69 TMO ‘trentbarton’ No. 142 ‘the cotgrave’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

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

 

Working from Nottingham to the town of Cotgrave.

 

 

 

 

YY20 OJB ‘trentbarton’ No. 159 ‘rainbowone’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

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

 

Working from Nottingham to Alfreton, Heanor and Ripley via Kimberley and Eastwood.

 

 

 

 

‘Scene’ in ‘trentbarton’ (tb) service. The Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D/ADL Enviro200MMC Part 1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Since the turn of the 21st. century, ‘tb’s single deck bus intake has comprised mainly of the Wright bodied Scania L94UB, The Wright bodied Volvo B7RLE, the Optare Solo and the Optare Versa.

 

There have been other purchases such as the Optare Tempo but not in large numbers.

 

2016 saw the introduction of the Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC.

 

Since that time upwards of 100 have joined the fleet.

 

There has also been a batch joining fellow ‘Wellglade’ group member ‘Kinchbus’ which were illustrated in my blog posted 28/08/2020.

 

The depots in Derby, Nottingham, Sutton-in-Ashfield and Langley Mill have all received new buses so I will show the images in the order in which the buses were delivered.

 

At the moment, there is a significant number of these buses still on order but rumour has it that they have been delayed for the time being because of the fallout from the Covid 19 pandemic.

 

YX66 WLN ‘trentbarton’ No. 103 ‘the mickleover’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

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

 

The first delivery was for Derby for ‘the mickleover’ linking Derby with the suburb of that name via the Royal Derby Hospital.

 

One of the batch was on ‘The Alexander Dennis Ltd’ stand at the 2016 Bus & Coach Show at the NEC. 

 

See blog dated 1/11/2016 for images.

 

 

 

 

YX66 WMP ‘trentbarton’ No. 164 ‘the nines’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

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

 

Originally No. 164 but later re-numbered to No. 264.

 

Based at Sutton-in-Ashfield on services from Derby via Ripley, Alfreton and Sutton to Mansfield.

 

 

 

 

YX17 NTL ‘trentbarton’ No. 110 ‘mango’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

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

 

Nottingham also had a small number of buses branded for ‘mango’ which is ‘tb’s electronic discounted travel card.

 

As part of the ’20' delivery, a further number of buses were delivered in the ‘Mango’ livery.

 

Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 regulations virtually banning ‘unnecessary’ travel.

 

They have as yet avoided my camera.

 

 

 

 

YX67 UXY ‘trentbarton’ No. 118 ‘mainline’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

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

 

Nottingham received a batch for ‘mainline’ services to the East of Nottingham towards Bingham.

 

Pictured leaving ‘Showbus 2017’ which was held at Donington Park.

 

 

 

 

YX67 VGC ‘trentbarton’ No. 266 ‘the allestree’. Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC 

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

 

Used from Derby to the suburb of Allestree.