‘Scene’ at Showbus 2022 A Selection of Single Deckers 1 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.

 

BV22 HDE ‘Dews Coaches’, Somersham, Cambridgeshire.

Volvo B8RLE / MCV eVORa

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SM64 OMG ‘Stagecoach CHELTENHAM & GLOUCESTER OMNIBUS CO. LTD’ No. 37246, CHELTENHAM DISTRICT.

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

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G293 KWY ‘SOVEREIGN BUS & COACH’.

Leyland Lynx MK 1

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New to ‘Keighley & District’ No. 201, then a spell with ‘Stotts of Milnsbridge’.

 

Whilst in preservation it also had a spell wearing ‘Cleveland Transit’ (CT) livery representing other Lynx’s that had served in that fleet although as far as I know, this bus never operated for ‘CT’.

 

 

 

 

 

YN14 MYA ‘Readingbuses’ No. 431.

Scania K270UB / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 300GS

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NPD 108L ‘Owner not Known’.

LEYLAND NATIONAL 1

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New to ‘London Country’ No. LN8.

 

 

 

 

YJ16 DZA ‘Adventuretravel’, Cardiff.

Optare MetroCity V1010MC

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‘Scene’, Down Memory Lane with ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ (AM) 1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

An occasional series which came about when I was looking through my collection of images for something else and this selection turned up.

 

In the early days due to the number of operators who formed the group, the fleet was a mixture of types amalgamated by the livery. 

 

It was plain, simple and some said boring.

 

I liked it so here are some examples of how it looked.

 

YN08 HZX ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ No. 3810. Scania K230UB / Scania OmniLink

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New to ‘ARRIVA Derby’ where it is pictured.

 

 

 

 

M831 SDA ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ No. 4191. Scania N113DRB / East Lancs

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New to ‘Midland Red North’.

 

Pictured in Derby.

 

 

 

 

P483 CAL  ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ No. 1381. Mercedes-Benz 709D / Plaxton Beaver

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New to ‘Derby City Transport’ where it is pictured as its No. 83.

 

 

 

 

M159 GRY ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ No. 4159. Scania N113DRB / East Lancs

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New to ‘Midland Fox’.

 

Pictured in Derby.

 

 

 

 

T61 JBA ‘ARRIVA Midlands’ No. 2299. ‘X38 burton derby fast’. Dennis Dart / Marshall Capital

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New to ‘Gilligan & Wilson’, Winsford, Cheshire.

 

Pictured in Derby although at the time, it was based in Burton-on-Trent.

‘Scene’ in Reading (It’s a Gas !!) on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

It was at the ‘Bus & Coach’ show 2012 at the NEC that I first saw a gas powered bus chassis that was intended for ‘Reading Transport’.

 

Scania K270UB Gas bus chassis destined for ‘Reading Buses’.

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An artists impression of what the completed bus, bodied by Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) would look like.

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I was in Reading recently so I thought I might have a look to see how the project had developed.

 

With 34 single deckers delivered so far and a double deck version in the offing it would seem to have developed very well.

 

Seen below, the appearance of the real bus very closely follows the artists impression.

 

YR13 PLV ‘Reading Buses’ 412 Scania K270UB/ADL Enviro 300SG.

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One of three buses branded for the ‘Scarlet 9’, service which serves Shinfield Park via The Royal Berkshire Hospital.

 

YN14 MXS ‘Reading Buses’ 423 Scania K270UB/ADL Enviro 300SG.

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One of four buses painted in the generic grey livery although I have seen one of the other three painted in a variation of it.

 

Working as a ‘spare bus’ on service 22 which is usually worked by by pink liveried buses to the suburb of Caversham Heights.

 

 

 

 

YN14 MXT ‘Reading Buses’ 424 Scania K270UB/ADL Enviro 300SG.

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One of six buses branded as ‘Leopard’ which serves Wokingham via Shinfield, Arborfield and Wick Hill.

 

 

YN14 MXZ ‘Reading Buses’ 430 Scania K270UB/ADL Enviro 300SG.

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One of four buses all branded for route ‘Pink 25’ which serves Caversham and Caversham Park.

 

YR13 PMU ‘Reading Buses’ 408 Scania K270UB/ADL Enviro 300SG.

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One of eleven buses branded for the ‘greenwave’ group of routes that serve a variety of routes including one to the Madjeski Stadium, the home of Reading Football Club.

 

YR13 PNF ‘Reading Buses’ 420 Scania K270UB/ADL Enviro 300SG.

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The variation on the generic livery I referred to earlier. Working as a ‘spare bus’ on service 2 normally the preserve of lime green painted buses.

 

YN14 MYC ‘Reading Buses’ 433 Scania K270UB/ADL Enviro 300SG.

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One of three buses branded in lime green for services 2/2a. 

 

This route works along the Bath Road to serve communities at Burghfield, Burghfield Common and Mortimer. 

 

The variation, the 2a serving Tadley.