‘Scene’ After Dark in Edinburgh on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Friend Stuart Montgomery, one of ‘Lothian Buses’ volunteer photographers, has recently forwarded some of his images that were taken during the dark hours.

 

This is something that I have never done, but having viewed what Stuart has produced I am going to give it a ‘go’ soon.

 

The images are produced with Stuart’s consent and my thanks.

 

SB19 GLZ ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 1129

Volvo B8L / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400XLB

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

 

 

 

 

SJ71 HJE ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 654.

Volvo B5TL / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400MMC /1

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

 

 

 

 

SJ70 HNB ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 67.

Volvo B8RLE / MCV Evora

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

 

 

 

 

SJ71 HJE ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 654.

Volvo B5TL / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400MMC /2

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

 

 

 

 

SJ71 HJG ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 656.

Volvo B5TL / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 400MMC

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

 

‘Scene’ in North Norfolk’ on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Friend Peter Rose recently spent some time in North Norfolk where he captured these images.

 

As regular readers/viewers will know Peter's work appears regularly on the blog with his permission and my thanks.

 

BV21 OOA ‘Sanders Services’ No. 518 ‘Coasthopper’ ‘Norfolk Adventurer’. 

Volvo B8RLE / MCV Evora 

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

 

One of 4 registered BV21 OOA/B/C and D. Unusual in that the bodies are shorter than the norm.

 

Numbered/named 518 Norfolk Adventurer, 519 Norfolk Rambler, 520 Norfolk Explorer and 521 Norfolk Discoverer. 

 

‘Coasthopper’ is a series of two routes which run from Wells to Cromer and from Holt to North Walsham.

 

Pictured outside Sheringham railway station.

 

 

 

 

LJ53 NHV ‘Sanders Coaches’ No. 109. 

DAF DB250 / Wright Gemini Eclipse /1 of 2 

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

 

New to ‘ARRIVA London South’ as No. DW30.

 

Pictured outside Sheringham railway station.

 

 

 

 

LJ53 NHV ‘Sanders Coaches’ No. 109. 

DAF DB250 / Wright Gemini Eclipse /2of 2

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

 

 

 

 

YH63 CXF ‘Sanders Services’ No. 402. 

VDL SB200 / Wright Pulsar 2

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

 

New to ‘Fishwick’, Leyland.

 

Pictured in Cromer.

 

 

‘Scene’ in York once more on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

Buses and trains in York have appeared in my blog many times down the years.

 

A recent visit for a few hours produced the following selection.

 

All of the images produced here have the medieval city walls and/or York Minster in the background.

 

SK70 VWP ‘Transdev Blazefield’ No. 2018 ’CITYZAP SKY CLASS’.

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

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

 

This was the bus I had arrived on from Leeds.

 

 

 

 

YJ69 CXC ’First York Ltd’. No. 39502 ‘YORK PARK & RIDE’. 

Optare MD111EV Metrodecker / Optare

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

 

 

 

 

BT66 MVR ‘Transdev Blazefield’ No. 3633 ‘Yorkshire Coastliner’. 

Volvo B5TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini

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

 

 

 

 

 

YJ09 FVO ’First York Ltd’. No. 37682. 

Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini 

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

 

New to ‘First West Yorkshire’.

YN07 MKO ’First York Ltd’. No. 37254 ‘University of York’. 

Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini 

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

 

New to ‘First South Yorkshire’.

 

 

 

‘Scene’ at the Buses Festival 2021 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The annual ‘Buses Festival’ this year was held at the ‘East of England Showground’ which is near Peterborough.

 

It was the first time I had attended the show and considering the amount of national publicity that had been lavished on it I was disappointed with the number of vehicles in attendance.

 

Whilst most of the attendees were preserved vehicles, there were some current buses and coaches on display.

 

The quality of vehicles that did attend was good particularly on a day which was interrupted by rain and dark clouds on a regular basis.

 

I think that an event held in the East Midlands will always have difficulties in attracting large numbers of participants.

 

The problem being that the venue is so far from most major centres of population.

 

Time will tell.

 

 

Short, the bodybuilders of this bus were the same company that built aircraft including the Sunderland flying boat for the Royal Air Force.

 

The were early users of aluminium in their bodybuilding which reduces both weight and corrosion.

 

MJ 4549 ‘Smith of Westoning’ No. 6, Bedfordshire. 

Dennis Lancet / Short /1 

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

 

New in 1932.

 

 

 

 

MJ 4549 ‘Smith of Westoning’ No. 6, Bedfordshire. 

Dennis Lancet / Short /2 

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

 

 

 

 

MJ 4549 ‘Smith of Westoning’ No. 6, Bedfordshire. Dennis Lancet / Short /3

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

 

 

 

 

MJ 4549 ‘Smith of Westoning’ No. 6, Bedfordshire. Dennis Lancet / Short /4

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

 

 

 

 

MJ 4549 ‘Smith of Westoning’ No. 6, Bedfordshire. Dennis Lancet / Short /5

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

 

‘Scene’ at ‘First South Yorkshires’ (FSY) event in Sheffield on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The 22nd. of August 2021 saw the 60th. anniversary of the opening of Olive Grove Garage in Sheffield.

 

To celebrate ‘FSY’ put on a ‘Family Fun Day’.

 

I have already covered some of the exhibits from ‘FSY’ in blogs posted 11/09/2021 and 4/11/2021.

 

There were a fair number of entrants from the West riding of Yorkshire starting with.

 

YJ09 OCD ‘First West Yorkshire’ (FWY) No. 37732 ‘Bradford Corporation Transport’ ‘STANLEY KING. 

Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini

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

 

Like ‘FSY’, ‘FWY’ like to remember the liveries of their constituent companies.

 

 

 

 

BHL 682 ‘West Riding’ No. 640. 

Leyland PD2 / Leyland Lowbridge

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

 

 

 

 

EHL 344 ‘West Riding’ No. 733. 

Leyland PS2 / Roe

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

 

 

 

 

LHL 164F ‘West Riding’ No. 164. 

Leyland Panther / Roe

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

 

I can not understand why anyone who has gone to the trouble to prepare a vehicle for display to the bus world would then pile assorted objects in front of it so spoiling everyone’s view.

 

 

 

 

C920 FMP ‘West Riding Buses’ No. 252. Leyland Lynx

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

 

New to ‘Leyland Bus’, Workington for whom presumably it was a demonstrator.

 

 

 

 

RWU 534R ‘West Yorkshire PTE’ No.8534. 

Leyland Leopard / Plaxton

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

 

‘Scene’ at ‘First South Yorkshires’ (FSY) event in Sheffield on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The 22nd. of August 2021 saw the 60th. anniversary of the opening of Olive Grove Garage in Sheffield.

 

To celebrate ‘FSY’ put on a ‘Family Fun Day’.

 

As might be expected, ‘FSY’ was well represented with buses from the present fleet with others either from the past or representing something from the past.

 

BD11 CEX ‘First South Yorkshire’ No. 69527 ’Mainline Silver Service’ No. 627. 

Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse 2 /1 of 2

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

 

Another of ‘FSY’s heritage liveries and very good it looks.

 

Although wearing a heritage livery, the route branding on the side panelling is distinctly modern.

 

 

 

 

BD11 CEX ‘First South Yorkshire’ No. 69527 ’Mainline Silver Service’ No. 627. 

Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse 2 /2 of 2

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

 

 

 

 

MX55 HHP ‘First South Yorkshire’ No. 66883 ‘Learner Driver’. 

Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban /1 of 3

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

 

I have always been drawn to the service vehicles in a bus fleet. The breakdown wagons, the driver trainers and assorted maintenance vans etc.

 

New to ‘First Hants & Dorset’ as part of the revenue fleet.

 

Between there and here it had a spell at ‘First Manchester’.

 

 

 

MX55 HHP ‘First South Yorkshire’ No. 66883 ‘Learner Driver’. 

Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban /2 of 3

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

 

 

 

 

MX55 HHP ‘First South Yorkshire’ No. 66883 ‘Learner Driver’. 

Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban /3 of 3

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

 

‘Scene’ in Derby again. ‘notts+derby’ (n+d) New Colours on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk'

‘n+d’s traditional livery has been a rather staid offering comprising of dark blue, white and green horizontal stripes.

 

Buses in this livery have appeared in my blog on many previous occasions.

 

However, a new livery which has not been seen before in my blog is slowly making its way across the fleet.

 

Very much in the modern style of application, it still manages to use the original colours so there has been no added expenditure that I could see.

 

LK58 KGO ‘notts+derby’ No. 12. 

Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) Trident / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400 /1

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

 

New to ‘Metroline’ as No. TE 930.

 

In October 2020, four of these buses were purchased from ‘Ensign’, the bus dealership in East London, which were delivered in their red London livery in which colours they entered service.

 

The other three are LK58 KGJ No. 11, LK58 KHG No. 13 and LK58 KHH No. 14.

 

 

 

 

LK58 KGO ‘notts+derby’ No. 12. 

Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) Trident / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400 /2

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

 

 

 

 

LK58 KGO ‘notts+derby’ No. 12. 

Alexander Dennis Ltd. (ADL) Trident / ‘ADL’ Enviro 400 /3

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

 

 

 

 

LK58 KHG ‘notts+derby’ No. 13. 

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

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

 

 

 

 

YN08 CWU  ‘notts+derby’ No. 762. 

Volvo B7RLE / Plaxton Centro /1

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

 

New to ‘Kinchbus’ for use on the ‘skylink’ service originally from Loughborough and later Leicester to Derby via the East Midlands Airport.

 

 

 

 

YN08 CWU  ‘notts+derby’ No. 762. 

Volvo B7RLE / Plaxton Centro /2

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

 

 

 

 

YN08 CWT  ‘notts+derby’ No. 761. 

Volvo B7RLE / Plaxton Centro

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

 

This image pictured in Belper.