One of my favourite spots for bus watching where something interesting always seems to turn up.
Chesterfield is very much on the tourist trail and visiting coaches are often booked into the parking bays in Beckingham Way, Coach Station.
FJ09 MWL ‘trentbarton’ No. 483.
Optare Solo M950
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Working a ‘comet’ branded service from Derby, usually the duty of a Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse.
More of a shooting star than a comet perhaps?
The brighter red livery is slowly spreading across the non-branded fleet.
All it needs now is the addition of cream to restore it back to the ‘Trent’ livery of sixty years ago.
YT16 SOH ‘National Holidays’.
Irizar i6 / Irizar
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Woods’ Coaches’, Tillicoultry, Scotland.
TH67 RBT ‘r. b. travel.
MAN 19.420 / Beulas Cygnus
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Bull Coaches’, Pytchley, Kettering.
YJ57 XWN ‘Hulleys of Baslow’, £2.
Optare Solo M950SL
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Courtney’, Bracknell, Berkshire.
The £2 sign at the front was the maximum fare payable that was applicable at the time.
SN56 AYF ‘Stagecoach Yorkshire’ No. 36071.
Alexander Dennis Ltd. Dart / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
What, I hear you ask, is interesting about this?
Well, it is a short bodied 8.9 metre long bus seating only 29 passengers and unusual in a ‘Stagecoach’ fleet.
New to ‘Shuttle Buses’, Kilwinning, Scotland.
YJ57 XWP ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 25.
Optare Solo M950SL
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
I think that the addition of blue around the destination box is something that I have not seen before.
New to ‘Courtney’, Bracknell, Berkshire.
MM70 UCE ‘Stagecoach Yorkshire’
Ford Transit
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Service buses sometimes need the support of service vans!
