‘Scene’ at the Buses Festival 2021 ‘Sharpes of Nottingham’ Part 1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

‘Sharpes of Nottingham’ are a well known operator in the East Midlands.  

 

Apart from their current service fleet which is always immaculately presented they also maintain some of its previous vehicles in a ‘heritage’ fleet that will be covered in part 2.

 

EX18 SON ‘sharpes’ ‘platinum service’ VANHOOL EX16M.

DAF / Vanhool EX16M /1

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

 

Formerly a Van Hool demonstrator.

 

 

 

 

EX18 SON ‘sharpes’ ‘platinum service’ VANHOOL EX16M.

DAF / Vanhool EX16M /2

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

 

 

 

 

EX18 SON ‘sharpes’ ‘platinum service’ VANHOOL EX16M.

DAF / Vanhool EX16M /3

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

 

 

 

 

 

TX69 SON ‘sharpes’ ‘Club Class’.

Vanhool TX21 Altano /1

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

 

This coach appeared at the NEC’s ‘Coach & Bus Live’ show in 2019.

 

At the time, it appeared on my blog posted 03/10/2019.

 

There are some interior images in that blog.

 

I had not realised until I was writing this piece that when looking closely at the image it is possible to detect the odd spot of rain for which I apologise.

 

 

 

 

TX69 SON ‘sharpes’ ‘Club Class’.

Vanhool TX21 Altano /2 

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

 

 

 

 

Registration Not known ‘sharpes’ ‘platinum service’.

Vanhool TX11 Alicron

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

 

If anyone could supply its registration, I would appreciate it.

 

‘Scene’ at the Bus & Coach show at the NEC in 2019 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The annual B&C show at the NEC has been cancelled for 2020 because of the Covid 19 Pandemic.

 

Regular readers/viewers of my blog will know that I would normally have published a number of blogs built round what was new in the 2020 show.

 

As I am not able to do so, I will fill the gaps created by re-running some of the highlights from previous shows.

 

Sometimes (but not always) a veteran bus from earlier years  puts in an appearance.

 

The 2019 show today.

 

Tomorrow? who knows.

 

The 2021 show is scheduled for the end of October 2021 and hopefully, I will be there but a lot of water has got to go under a lot of bridges before then.

 

Meanwhile, I hope you have enjoyed this trip down memory lane. 

 

Be positive and stay safe.

 

TX69 SON ‘sharpesofnottingham.com' club class. VANHOOL TDX21 Altano

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

 

 

 

Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC ‘Stagecoach’ group Autonomous Technology demonstrator

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

 

The bus that drives itself. There is a driver but he is simply a safety feature.

 

The battery of sensors that surround the bus do its thinking for it.

 

 

 

 

Yutong E10 for London

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

 

 

 

 

NO69 NTL 'Nova Tours’, Chesterfield. YUTONG GT 12

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

 

Unfortunately, ‘Nova Tours’ were one of the first business victims of the Covid 19 pandemic going out of business in April 2020.

 

Speaking personally, My wife and I will miss Nova, we have had many enjoyable holidays with the company.

 

 

 

 

Volvo B11RLE / Plaxton Panorama demonstrator

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

 

For more images, see my blog posted 06/10/2019.

 

 

 

 

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

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

 

‘ADL’s best selling E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC has featured a number of times in this series of blogs so it is only right to finish the series with ‘ADL’s other best selling bus the E40D / Enviro 400MMC.

 

‘Scene’ at Coach & Bus UK19 Part 1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Here we are then folks as promised the first, hopefully of a number of blogs covering the parts of the above event that caught my eye.

 

First, general impressions.

What was there was very good. What wasn’t there was anything from Optare or Wrightbus.

 

With the situation at Wright’s being highly uncertain I can understand their absence but I expected Optare to be present.

 

Having been down the redundancy road twice myself, I know what the employees are facing.

 

I would like to wish them all the best for their and the company’s future.

 

When I first saw what as expected to be on show. I doubted that I could get more that half a dozen blogs out of it but such was the quality and range of what was on display. I have identified a dozen possible blogs all of which I shall post.

 

Only about 75% of the space available was used with buses mostly spaced generously.

 

This allowed space for some manufacturers that I had never heard of. More anon and more tomorrow.

 

TX69 SON ‘sharpes of nottingham’ club class Van Hool TX21 altano /1

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

 

 

 

 

TX69 SON ‘sharpes of nottingham’ club class Van Hool TX21 altano /2

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

 

 

 

 

TX69 SON ‘sharpes of nottingham’ club class Van Hool TX21 altano /3

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

 

 

 

 

TX69 SON ‘sharpes of nottingham’ club class Van Hool TX21 altano /4

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

 

 

 

 

 

TX69 SON ‘sharpes of nottingham’ club class Van Hool TX21 altano /5

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

 

The drivers cab.

 

 

 

 

TX69 SON ‘sharpes of nottingham’ club class Van Hool TX21 altano /6

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

 

The upper deck accommodation.