The former Brighton & Hove Scania’s are finally starting to go through the paint shop with 6013 being the first to emerge in the new ‘connections’ livery. Looking very smart too.
Thanks to Mark Bailey for the photo.
© Mark Bailey
In her former life she looked like this
© Stevens Transport Photos [cc]
As much as I like B&H livery, I think I prefer her current state (although I prefer the swoop). I am sure there will be plenty of people who will disagree though!
Happy Easter Everyone!
Richard Anscombe came across this beastie at Malmesbury Garden Centre on the 16th November:
You may recognise the registration - and the livery:
And of course before that it looked like this
I never did like this livery - but it did look good on these buses
And going back even further it started off life in London:
A nice line up of Plaxton bodied Volvo double deckers at Chambers including two which seem familiar. Y731TGH and X507EGK were Plymouth Citybus 449 and 450 respectively although they both carry former London livery as they were not in Plymouth long enough to gain Citybus colours. Ironically, if they stay with Chambers its quite likely that they will be repainted into Chambers new livery which just happens to be almost identical to the dark red front former livery... If you look carefully you will see that 450 has an extra 1 - its now fleet number 1450.
© Rodney Smith - with thanks.
449 was used in Plymouth for a brief period on schools services:
Photo credit: Nick Rice under Creative Commons Licence.
449 was originally Go Ahead London PVL231:
Photo credit: EastleighBusMan under Creative Commons Licence.
Reading List
- DENNIS BASFORD: ‘Scene’ recently in Chesterfield
- EAST NORFOLK: The Wright Renowns
- EAST NORFOLK: Steam Bus In Lowestoft
- EAST NORFOLK: Poppy Vinyl
- FOCUS TRANSPORT: Stagecoach Trading Update
- FOCUS TRANSPORT: APPEALING VOICES FOR THE POPPY
- HOME COUNTIES BUSES: Arriva MAX Makes Its Way South
- IAN VISITS: Victorian London’s double-decked cable cars
- IAN VISITS: At just 26 days, London Underground’s shortest lived tube station
- IPSWICH BUS BLOG: 32655 IN VIEW AND OTHER NEWS
- IPSWICH BUS BLOG: 69423 IN SERVICE AND OTHER NEWS
- LANCASTER OMNIBUS: Confusion over service 555 and 755 timetables
- NORFOLK SCENE: Visit To Marks Tey
- NORWICH BUSES: Photo Special - London Visit
- PUBLIC TRANSPORT EXPERIENCE: Interesting Intersection of Interests [2]
- RANDOM STREETS: Hell
- RICHARDS TRAM BLOG: BLACKPOOL 711 AND BOX 40
- STEVES BUS AND TRAIN PAGE: Borderbus E300 Repaint
- STEVES BUS AND TRAIN PAGE: Ipswich interrupted - Again!
- TRANSPORT ILLUSTRATED: Sandtoft Gathering - Trolleybuses
I was running through my usual reading list when I recognised an old friend. Looking just as it did when it left Plymouth, South Gloucestershire Bus & Coach Volvo G614OTV in full Student Link livery was noted on the 3rd September
The next photo was of an much older Volvo / Alexander bus in the form of A288TSN a former Tayside bus, in the same livery! You could also argue that the less than subtle door conversion carries a hint of Plymouth too...
© Stewart Graham 'MCW 1987'
© Stewart Graham 'MCW 1987'
Thanks for permission to use the photos. As always I receommend you take the time to click through to the Flickr photostream and explore some of his other photos.
Recommended Reading
- RICHARDS TRAM BLOG: SHENYANG.
PYONGYANG DPRK - ZURICH TRAMS.
PYONGYANG DPRK - TROLLEYBUSES.
PYONGYANG DPRK - TROLLEYBUSES (more).
PYONGYANG DPRK - TRAMS.
PYONGYANG DPRK - METRO.
PYONGYANG RAILWAY STATION AND ENGINES.- TRANSPORT ILLUSTRATED: Ian Manning Farewell Stagecoach West's Managing Director Ian Manning retired at the end of May and to celebrate his life in the transport industry a farewell running day was staged between Cheltenham, Gloucester and Tewkesbury on Saturday May 31st.
- PUBLIC TRANSPORT EXPERIENCE: Three Options for a Funeral [3] Episode 3 : let the train take the strain? It follows, as night follows day, that if we ignore fares, the journey is easy and all we have to do is to weigh up the disadvantage of travelling by underground but arriving at Maidstone East which is easy for the frequent bus OR changing easily at St Pancras but arriving at Maidstone West with a less easy bus interchange. But if we don't want to pay nearly £200 for the privilege, things become a bit more challenging.
- FOCUS TRANSPORT: Arriva North East Launch MAX Arriva North East have launched a range of services under the MAX brand. On Monday evening 1st September the vehicles were shown at a special event at the Life Centre Times Square complex. Earlier in the day MAX vehicles were displayed in the centre of the market town of Blyth in Northumberland, which is the northern terminus for the new MAX services.
- BRITISH BUS BUGLE: BANES botches bus help Bath And North East Somerset Council, also known as BANES, have managed to get a good news story carried by Now Bath regarding the acceptance of First Day tickets on a tendered evening service between Bath and Midsomer Norton. Sadly, the much trumpeted help isn't actually much help at all,
- DENNIS BASFORD: ‘Scene’ in Bakewell When I first knew Bakewell, which is over 60 years ago. It was a typical country market town. Its primary function was trading in livestock at its large market together with produce, farm equipment and everything else that goes to support a basically farming community.
- LANCASTER OMNIBUS: Is Anyone at Stagecoach Reading This? Two days after The Man on the Lancaster Omnibus pointed out that the company's Service Update on its website concerning the closure of the main access to Lancaster University for roadworks omitted any reference to service 755 (Lancaster - Bowness) Stagecoach has updated the announcement
©Paul Jenkinson 
News of more Olympians coming from Somerset, apparently for Torpoint use coincided with this image appearing on one of the many groups I belong to so I am greatful for Kevin Smith for allowing me to post it here.
© Peter Horrex
and one of mine as it is now, March 2006, if anything its looking smarter now than it did before
© Grahame Bessey
Only recently sold by Plymouth Citybus this Volvo double decker was new to Great Yarmouth, one of many municipal bus companies that have disappeared.
Thanks to Grahame for allowing to me to post this photo. For more of his photos visit his fotopic site
Other photos: Same bus with Chambers, and again and with Rhondda in August 1995.
Terry Partridge photo while still with Citybus
