Heading off in all directions

Its not just the South coast that has benefitted from FDC cut backs recently with several buses leaving the fleet to go to 'First East of England' which covers the former Eastern Counties and Essex (Eastern National) fleets:
42431 P431ORL
©Nick Rice - seen in Truro but a former Plymouth bus.
42436 P436ORL
42440 P440ORL
46440 N810VOD

Having sent buses South and East, the only other way out is North, and three more Optare Solos travelled North to First Cymru:
53003 V803KAF
53004 W804PAF
53005 W805PAF

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Escaped from Plymouth: L258YOD

A little bit of Citybus still working in Glasgow

© Dave Ballantyne (with permission) Seeing as the Mercedes 709s are now coming to an end for Plymouth Citybus, when Dave Ballantyn posted this photo on one of the Google photo groups it just seemed appropriate to share it here. Former Plymouth Citybus 258 L258YOD seen in Jamaica Street Glasgow, October 2009. From other photos of Dicksons buses I have seen, it appears the red roof has been retained from the Citybus livery, all others just have the plain white. It does give it a slight touch of class compared with the other I think! (I did say 'slight' touch!) It did of course look a lot better in Citybus livery: from April 2002.

Further Reading Omnibuses: Wickham Wanderings - well worth a read Leon Daniels: Sightseeing and Supermarkets PTOTPA: Review of 2009 - nice one Laurence! TGP - Cotswolds and Cheltenham First on Twitter / Facebook 17 Jan 2010 nothing to see here! Citybus on Twitter / Facebook 17 Jan 2010 It was a very quiet day in Plymouth!