'Scene' at ‘Coach & Bus UK17’ part 2 on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The annual pilgrimage to the NEC seems to come round quicker every year.

 

This years offerings were a bit disappointing because out of the major UK bus manufacturers neither Optare nor the Wright group attended.

 

However there was still plenty of interest.

 

The Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D has rapidly become a best seller and rightly so.

 

The bus in the show was from the ‘Thamesdown’ fleet which trades as ‘swindon bus company’.

 

’Thamesdown’ in turn being part of ‘Go-Ahead South Coast’.

 

 

HF67 ATN ‘swindon bus company’ No. 2772 Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200MMC /1

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

 

 

 

 

HF67 ATN ‘swindon bus company’ No. 2772 Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200MMC /2

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

 

 

 

 

HF67 ATN ‘swindon bus company’ No. 2772 Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200MMC /3

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

 

 

 

 

HF67 ATN ‘swindon bus company’ No. 2772 Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200MMC /4

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

'Scene' at ‘Coach & Bus UK17’ part 1 on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The annual pilgrimage to the NEC seems to come round quicker every year.

 

This years offerings were a bit disappointing because out of the major UK bus manufacturers neither Optare nor the Wright group attended.

 

However there was still plenty of interest.

 

The move away from diesel power continues with this interesting bus from Irizar which is liveried and with two doors for London operation.

 

 

 

‘Coach & Bus UK17’ Irizar i2e  /1

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

 

 

 

 

‘Coach & Bus UK17’ Irizar i2e  /2

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

 

 

 

 

‘Coach & Bus UK17’ Irizar i2e  /3

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

 

 

 

 

‘Coach & Bus UK17’ Irizar i2e  /4

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

 

‘Scene’ in Hull, ‘East Yorkshire Motor Services’ Volvo/ Gemini’s on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The bulk of ‘East Yorkshire Motor Services’ (EYMS) double deck fleet is made up of Wright bodied Gemini Eclipse’s fitted to both Volvo B7TL and Volvo B9TL chassis.

 

The majority carry the companies maroon and cream livery however there are exceptions.

 

 

 

YX07 HKD ‘East Yorkshire Motor Services’ No. 717 ‘EYMS 90 YEARS’ Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclips

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

 

Celebrating ’90 years of EYMS’ and painted to display the three liveries that have graced the fleet in that time.

 

From back to front, the one I like the best, indigo and primrose. ‘National Bus Company’ Poppy red and white and the current maroon and cream.

 

This image was taken by my son Andrew and is reproduced here with his permission.

 

 

 

 

Many of the fleet appear in fleet livery however even there it is possible to detect slight variations.

 

 

YX09 BKK ‘East Yorkshire Motor Services’ No. 753 Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse

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

 

 

 

 

BP15 OLC ‘East Yorkshire Motor Services’ No. 790 Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse

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

 

 

 

 

BP15 OLG ‘East Yorkshire Motor Services’ No. 792 ‘X46’ Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse

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

 

 

 

 

YX09 BKO ‘East Yorkshire Motor Services’ No. 756 Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse

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

 

 

 

‘EYMS’ coach livery is light blue and cream which is used on one bus by way of an advert for the coach fleet.

 

A18 EYC‘East Yorkshire Motor Services’ No. 721 ‘EYMS Coaches’ Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse /1

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

 

Formerly YX07 HKH with ‘EYMS’.

 

 

 

 

A18 EYC ‘East Yorkshire Motor Services’ No. 721 ‘EYMS Coaches’ Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse /2

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

 

Formerly YX07 HKH with ‘EYMS’.

 

 

 

 

Then there are others that carry all over adverts.

 

YX08 FVE  ‘East Yorkshire Motor Services’ No. 743 ‘Hull childrens university’ Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse

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

 

 

 

 

YX07 HKF ‘East Yorkshire Motor Services’ No. 719 ‘VIKING FM’ Volvo B9TL / Wright Gemini Eclipse

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

 

‘Scene’ in Eastbourne, Buses on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The title seems a bit brief by my standards, however there will be a further blog titled ‘Scene’ in Eastbourne, Coaches

 

 

Bus services for many years were provided by ‘Eastbourne Corporation Transport’. 

 

In 2008 the company was taken over by ‘Stagecoach’ group.

 

This takeover was scrutinized and passed by The Monopolies and Mergers Commission before full control was achieved in 2009.

 

Today, ‘Stagecoach South East’ is the main operator in the town with ‘Brighton & Hove’ ((B&H) a ‘Go-Ahead’ group company having a strong presence with a group of routes all linking along the coast to Brighton.

 

‘Seaford & District’ operate on mainly tourism based routes.

 

 

 

 

GN61 EVU ‘Stagecoach SouthEast’ No. 15771 ‘the Wave 99’ Scania N230D / Alexander Enviro 400

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

 

New to ‘Stagecoach East Kent’.

 

 

 

GN13 HHR ‘Stagecoach SouthEast’ No. 36900 Dennis Dart SLF 4 / Alexander Enviro 200

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

 

 

 

GX06 DZA ‘Stagecoach SouthEast’ No. 27519 ADL Enviro 300 / Transbus Enviro 300

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

 

New to ‘Stagecoach East Kent’.

 

 

 

BX15 ONS ‘Brighton & Hove' No. 940 ‘Coaster’ Mercedes-Benz / Wright Streetdeck /1

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

 

 

 

BX15 ONS ‘Brighton & Hove' No. 940 ‘Coaster’ Mercedes-Benz / Wright Streetdeck /2

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

 

 

 

 

 YH54 AOM ‘Brighton & Hove' No.  637 Scania N94UD OmniDekka / East Lancs

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

 

Seen ‘B&H’ fleet livery.

 

 

 

V309 KGW ‘Seaford & District’ No. TA9 ‘Eastbourne Sightseeing’ Dennis Trident 2 / Alexander ALX 400

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

 

New to ‘Connex’ (London) as its TA9 which it still retains.

 

 

 

SFZ 404 ‘Seaford & District’ No. 819 ‘Eastbourne Sightseeing’ Dennis Trident 2 / East Lancs Lolyne

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

 

New in 1999 as T819 RFG to ‘Brighton & Hove’ as its 819 which it retains. Then to ‘Geldard’, Leeds.

 

 

SFZ 131 ‘Seaford & District’ No. 349 ‘Eastbourne Sightseeing’ Volvo Olympian / Alexander (Belfast) ‘R’

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

 

New as 97-D-343 in 1997 to ‘Dublin Bus’. Then to ‘Bath Bus Company’ as P773 SWC.

 

 

 

 

‘Scene’ in the SouthWest.’Citybus’and others in Plymouth on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

I have visited Plymouth on a number of occasions down the years and I always find something of interest.

 

Like many fleets, ‘Plymouth Citybus’ (part of the ‘Go-Ahead Group’) has a variety of brands within the fleet.

 

Possibly the most common is ‘citybus’.

 

 

PF06 ENL ‘Plymouth citybus’ No. 370 ‘city’ Scania N94UB / East Lancs

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

 

New to ‘Thames Travel’ (another ‘Go-Ahead’ group company).

 

 

 

 

 

WX62 HHE ‘Plymouth citybus’ No. 707 ‘city’ MAN 18.270 EcoCity / Caetano

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

 

New to ‘Anglian Bus’.

 

 

 

The next 2 images of buses built by the same builder seven years apart show that although a lot has changed mechanically, there is very little difference in appearance.

 

 

WA08 LDJ ‘Plymouth citybus’ No. 137 ‘city’ Dennis Dart SLF / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro 200

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

 

 

 

WJ65 HMA ‘Plymouth citybus’ No. 147 ‘city’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D

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

 

 

 

 

WJ55 HLR ‘Plymouth citybus’ No. 87 ‘city’ Mercedes-Benz Citaro

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

 

 

 

 

 

The Dennis Dart is alive and well in Plymouth with a number of operators.

 

LX05 EYW ‘Plymouth citybus’ No. 255 ‘city’ Dennis Dart SLF / Plaxton Mini Pointer

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

 

This one being new to ‘London General’.

 

 

 

 

WA03 BHW ‘Plymouth citybus’ No. 67 ‘city’ Dennis Dart SLF / Plaxton Pointer

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

 

 

 

 

 

WA64 JVV ‘Plymouth citybus’ No. 72 ‘SuperRider’ Dennis Dart SLF / Plaxton Pointer

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

 

Seen in an earlier livery.

 

 

 

 

 

BX54 DLD ‘JACKETTS’ Dennis Dart SLF / Plaxton Pointer

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

 

 

 

 

 

PX05 EKV ’Stagecoach South West’ No. 34686 Dennis Dart SLF / Plaxton Pointer

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

I know that operators move buses around the various fleets within their group for a variety of reasons. I do wonder though about the economics of the exercise.

 

This particular bus, seen in Plymouth was photographed in Carlisle by me nearly 4 years ago. 

 

According to Google maps, Carlisle is 388 miles away.

 

New to ‘Stagecoach North West’.

 

 

 

YX65 RCV ’Stagecoach South West’ No. 26034 ‘park&ride’ Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D

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

 

 

 

 

SN65 ZHK ’Stagecoach South West’ No. 10495 Alexander Dennis Ltd. E40D

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

 

 

‘Scene’ in Derby 22/09/17 on ‘Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The day was autumnal with strong sunshine low in the sky giving strong shadows. It was one of those days where you get what images you can.

 

As usual, I got the best I could.

 

On the 31st, of July this year I published a blog detailing how ‘trentbarton’ were using former ‘the mickleover’ Volvo’s with Wright bodies to upgrade the Cotgrave services in Nottingham.

 

The Scanias with Wright bodies that were previously used on that service were withdrawn and at least one of them is now being operated by fellow ‘Wellglade’ group member 

‘notts+derby’ on service 12A in Derby.

 

The former livery can still be seen where the previous route branding has been removed.

 

 

FJ03 VWR ‘notts+derby No. 622 Scania L94UB / Wright Solar /1

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

 

 

 

FJ03 VWR ‘notts+derby No. 622 Scania L94UB / Wright Solar /2

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

 

 

FJ03 VWR ‘notts+derby No. 622 Scania L94UB / Wright Solar /3

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

 

 

 

FJ03 VWR ‘notts+derby No. 622 Scania L94UB / Wright Solar /4

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

 

‘Scene’ at RAF Scampton, Scandinavian Air Forces. on ‘Dennis Basford’ railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

The second weekend in September 2017 saw the the first annual RAF Scampton Airshow which it is hoped will be the first of many.

 

Entrants were many and varied and this will be the first in a small number of ‘blogs’ that will cover some of the more interesting attendees.

 

 

From Sweden came a quartet that covered most of the last 60 years. 

 

SE-DXB  /  29670 ‘Swedish Air Force Historic Flight’ SAAB J-29F Tunnan

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

 

The only time I saw a J29 in ‘the flesh’ so to speak was in Malmo (Sweden) in 1957.

 

Tunnan translates as ‘Flying Barrel’.  An apt choice.

 

 

 

SE-RMD / 32542 Swedish Air Force Historic Flight’ SAAB J-32B Lansen

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

 

Lansen translates as ‘Lance’.

 

 

 

SE-DXP / 35810 Swedish Air Force Historic Flight’ SAAB SK-35C Draken

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

 

The 2 seat trainer version of the J-35.

 

Draken translates as ‘Dragon’.

 

 

SE-DXN /  37098 ‘Swedish Air Force Historic Flight’ SAAB AJS-37 Viggen 

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

 

Viggen translates as ‘Thunderbolt’.

 

 

 

LN-DHY /  PX-K ‘Royal Norwegian Air Force Historic Squadron ’ De Havilland Vampire FB52

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

 

The Vampire FB52 was the export version of the FB6.

 

This aircraft was licence built in Switzerland in 1952 for use by the ‘Swiss Air Force’ with whom it flew as J-1196 until 1990.

 

Withdrawn and sold on, it eventually arrived in Sweden as SE-DXS being sold on again to Norway in 2011.

 

Painted to represent PX-K one of a number of Vampire FB52’s that flew with the ‘Royal Norwegian Air Force’ in the early 1950’s.

 

 

LN-DHZ / PX-M ‘Royal Norwegian Air Force Historic Squadron’ De Havilland Vampire T55

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

 

The Vampire T55 was the export version of the T11.

 

This aircraft was licence built in Switzerland in 1959 for use by the ‘Swiss Air Force’ with whom it flew as U-1120 until 1990.

 

Withdrawn and sold on, it eventually arrived in Norway in 2005.

 

 Painted to represent PX-M one of a number of Vampire T55’s that flew with the ‘Royal Norwegian Air Force’ in the early 1950’s.