Thanks to Jason Beverley for some great shots has taken over the last few days…
The full line up at Reading Transport
Refuelling in progress
In Transit: Taunton Deane
A nice shot taken at Bretonside
And finally all tucked up in their new home
Thanks one again to Jason for supplying the great photos.
See more of the departure of the MAN Ecocity fleet from Anglian with some nice photos on Steves Bus and Train Page including a nice couple of videos taken as they left
Steve is clearly fond of the MANs.
Thanks to Steve for supplying a few photos of the departure…
The buses arrived in Reading for an over night stay and refuel before the final trip into Plymouth on Monday.
Photo on Facebook from Jason Beverley, one of the drivers. The estimated time of arrival in Plymouth looks to be aprox 4 to 5pm Monday Afternoon.
Plymouth Citybus and its predecessors have always been a pretty standardised fleet with just a few oddities along the way. I think its fair to say that the next batch of buses will be among the more unusual to hit the streets of Plymouth. Even twelve months ago, if someone was to tell you that Citybus were to take a batch of fairly new singledeckers from within the Go Ahead Group, you would be unlikely to choose these from the GA Fleet as likely to be heading our way.
Well, its almost time, as the gas powered MAN EcoCity 18.270 with Caetano B43F bodywork from Anglian Buses will be arriving in Plymouth next week! The 23rd and 24th should all being well see the buses arriving at Milehouse. They are coming down via Reading where they will be refuelled by Reading Transport. They wont enter service just yet though as they will need to be refurbished and repainted into Flash liveries first.
© David McKay (cc)
They will certainly make quite an impact on the streets of Plymouth and will also boost the 'green' credential of Plymouth Citybus.
