Life after Plymouth: L124YOD

© Kenneth Aveyard

I don't know if you've had this one before, but I've been catching up on captioning a massive backlog of pictures and came across this one. Richard Taunton College in Southampton L124YOD formerly operated by Xelabus and I think still garaged by them. Seen in Eastleigh on 30 June 2014.

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