This last week, I have been out and about more or less locally. There is quite a lot to report so I have tried to pack in as much of interest as I can into the one blog.
Ripley in Derbyshire is where I have lived for almost 40 years.
Local routes 143 and 144 which link Ripley with Belper and Crich (the home of the Tramway Village) have been run for some years now by ‘Skills Coaches’ (see blog dated 20/05/2017).
However on the 29th. of October 2017 both routes passed to ‘Littles’ of Ilkeston.
V257 DRB ‘Littles’, Ilkeston Optare Solo M920 / 1
on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Nottingham City Transport’ (NCT) as its No. 257.
Wearing for the most part its former ‘NCT’ livery.
V257 DRB ‘Littles’, Ilkeston Optare Solo M920 / 2
on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Nottingham City Transport’ (NCT) as its No. 257.
Wearing for the most part its former ‘NCT’ livery.
Also seen in Ripley is one of ‘yourbus’ of Heanor’s latest arrivals.
As I have commented before, the ‘old’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) E20D / Enviro 200 still continues to be available.
YX67 VGZ ‘yourbus’ No. 1411 ‘ADL E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200 /1
on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
YX67 VGZ ‘yourbus’ No. 1411 ‘ADL E20D / ‘ADL’ Enviro 200 /2
on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Just down the A38 from Derby lies the brewing town of Burton-on-Trent.
The major operator in the town is now ‘midland classic’ (mc) who took over most of the
‘Arriva Midlands’ operation in the town in September 2016. (see blog dated 06/09/2016).
‘mc’s fleet runs some new Optare Metrocity’s but the bulk of the fleet has come from other operators.
One operator that is well represented with ‘mc’ is ‘Reading Buses’.
The latest arrival I am told is on loan and wether it eventually gains ‘mc’s fleet livery remains to be seen.
YN08 MMA ‘Readingbuses’ No. 1108 / ‘mc’ No. 213 Scania CN270 / Scania Omnicity /1
on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
YN08 MMA ‘Readingbuses’ No. 1108 / ‘mc’ No. 213 Scania CN270 / Scania Omnicity /2
on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
It must be at least two weeks since Derby featured on my blog so time I think for yet another visit.
‘trentbarton’ (tb) have transferred its ‘spondon flyer’ service from Optare Versa’s to Optare Solo SR’s.
The Solo’s have come from the ‘mainline’ services in Nottingham where they have been replaced by new ‘ADL’ E20D’s, with ‘ADL’ Enviro 200MMC bodywork (see blog dated 12/09/2017).
The livery choice seems to be quite clever in that the base colour on the ‘spondon flyer’ buses is the same as was used in Nottinhgham.
The rear of the bus being painted in the same style as was introduced on the ‘ilkeston flyer’ (see blog 28/03/2017).
YD63 VDL ‘trentbarton’ No. 501 ‘spondon flyer’ Optare Solo SR M970 /1
on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
YD63 VDL ‘trentbarton’ No. 501 ‘spondon flyer’ Optare Solo SR M970 /2
on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
I have commented previously about ‘yourbus’ painting the older dark red liveried buses in the new livery that contains a lot of white.
The older Mercedes-Benz Citaro’s were covered in my blog dated 15/03/2017 and the Wright Streetlite D/Fs were covered in my blog dated 05/09/2017.
Now it’s the turn of the Wright Streetlite W/F.
MX62 GVV ‘yourbus’ No. 1204 Wright Streetlite W/F /1
on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Still carrying some of the route branding for routes 110 and 111 which work between Matlock and Ashbourne this one was seen on a Derby City service.
MX62 GVV ‘yourbus’ No. 1204 Wright Streetlite W/F /2
on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
YR59 NNT “Arriva Midlands’ No. 3513 New 2017 livery Scania K230UB / Wright
on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Centrebus’ as its 749.
The first of ‘Arriva Derby’s allocation of single deck buses that I have seen in the new livery.
FJ58 KXR ‘Arriva Midlands’ No. 4217 Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse
on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
I have included this for old times sake because according to my reckoning this is the last of its type in the old livery on deckers in Derby.
