Issue nr 266
Wednesday September 6th, 2023
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From the Editor
Buses Festival 2023
DRT expanding in Buckinghamshire.
Arriva renumbers many services around High Wycombe
Dates for your Diary
A day out with Jack Cooper
Readers write
Buses in the landscape
Many changes from local operators
Readers visits to Stratford-upon-Avon and Leicester
The Buses Festival took place on 3
September, returning to Sywell Aerodrome near Wellingborough
for a second time. Blessed with glorious sunny weather, although
with most of the display parked facing north this did make photography
of static vehicles challenging.
The advertised Oxford Tube coach was not able to attend but Pulhams sent this Jonckheere, displaying it with the nearside wheelchair lift fully extended.
Whilst accessibility for all is undoubtedly
important this picture does illustrate the potential difficulties rural
operators face in deploying these effectively on narrow roads. The
coach now carries discreet 'Go Ahead branding on the window in front of
the lift access door.
Northampton Corporation were the last British operator to order a front engine rear entrance double decker, with the very final example being this Roe bodied Daimler CVG6 which is now preserved.
It is seen preparing to run a tour of the local area. Two further
preserved vehicles from the same operator were on static display.
154 on the left is a Northern Counties bodied CVG6 dating from 1947,
whilst 146 is a Crossley with Roe body delivered a year earlier in 1946.
Under restoration, doubtless to the same high standards as its
compatriots is 250, another Roe CVG6.
United Counties, another fondly remembered local operator, was represented.
GRP260D is an ECW Bristol MW seen returning
after working a local tour.
Also working the tour was this Alexander RL Leyland Olympian ordered in the
early days of the operators place in the Stagecoach group.
Kis Coaches from Northampton sent a large selection of vehicles
including this Wright Volvo B7TL which started life with Lothian.
Country Lion operated a half hourly service linking the Festival with Wellingborough railway station
using a pair of Plaxton Panthers, one of which is seen at station.
An interesting selection of vehicles ran a circular tour of the local area with departures every 10 minutes.
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The sunny weather meant the open top vehicles were especially popular
including this 1933 Weymann bodied Bristol G.
Delivered new
to Norwich Electric Traction Company it is preserved in a later guide
when it served Eastern Counties as an open top bus.
It is the only
surviving Bristol G and oldest Bristol bus currently roadworthy.
RM1403 is based locally and available for
private hire. It is seen taking its turn on tour duties.
Also on the tour was this preserved example
of the relatively rare
Optare Vecta
mounted on the >MAN
11.180.
It carries the livery of Seamarks, the erstwhile
Luton operator who had it when new.
This West Bromwich Corporation liveried Enviro 200 has an interesting
history. Delivered new to NCP Challenger it passed to London
United when they took over NCP. Further take overs saw it finish
it's London life with Go Ahead. Now preserved (complete with
operational wheelchair ramp) the owner has painted it in this livery and
named it King Charles III. Whilst purists might object to the non
authentic livery, it does look very smart and it is ultimately the
choice of the owner as to the livery carried by their bus.
Andy Churchill
Here is a selection of the attendees at buses Festival 2023 at Sywell
aerodrome on September 3rd .
Adam Green
Photos
from Sywell Buses Festval Sunday 3rd September 2023
I had some difficulty selecting the pictures from three contribur/ors so as not to be repetitive. Ed.
DRT expanding in Buckinghamshire
Carousel Bus’ PickMeUp demand responsive transport (DRT) service in the Wycombe area is expanding.
The service’s catchment area is being expanded to include Flackwell Heath. Funded by a three-year central Government Rural Mobility Fund Grant, the service runs from Monday to Friday from 6am to 7pm. Mercedes-Benz-based Sprinter conversions by EVM are currently used on the service, which in March reached the 25,000 journey milestone. As part of the route expansion, an additional EVM will operate at the morning and afternoon peak, to keep up with demand.
Residents can book the bus via a smartphone app or by phone when they need to travel and have it pick them up from a nearby location convenient to them.
PickMeUp was launched as a pilot in September 2022 and had close to 100 people per day travelling by the end of the first week of service. By December 2022, this had increased to 220 passengers per day and the service continues to attract new passengers, now providing almost 1,500 rides per week.
After reviewing how the service is being used, and in response to requests from the local community, the council and Go-Ahead-owned Carousel Buses are extending the service to more potential passengers.
Luke Marion, Managing Director of Carousel Buses, said: “It is great to be expanding the PickMeUp service even further in Buckinghamshire. Since launching last September, PickMeUp has already benefited thousands of residents, providing them with an efficient, low-carbon, on-demand mode of transport in areas where our main bus routes cannot operate due to location, demand and vehicle size.
“The continuing popularity of the service demonstrates the role that demand-responsive transport plays in improving air quality and traffic congestion in the UK. We look forward to serving passengers in Flackwell Heath.”
“Carousel are enabling us to provide better and more sustainable transport options for High Wycombe” – Steven Broadbent, Buckinghamshire Council’s Cabinet Member for Transport
Steven Broadbent, Buckinghamshire Council’s Cabinet Member for Transport, said: “Having spotted a gap in regular bus services in some areas of the town and listened to local views, it has been really good to see growing numbers of people embracing the Wycombe PickMeUp as a convenient and greener way to travel. Carousel are enabling us to provide better and more sustainable transport options for High Wycombe and we are pleased to be continuing on the next step with them.”
Gavin Francis provides current usage of the PMU fleet
The Sprinters are mainly used for the PMU but
on September 4th were also working a local route as well.
Over the past weekend many of the services in High Wycombe have been renumbered which has drawn comment from local users. Arriva did however make a number of changes to displays to indicate what was to happen and from day one using the destination displays to good advantage. However the positioning of the route number to the right of the screen is not in accordance with regulations !
Gavin Francis has provided a number of pictures to illustrate this.
On the 2nd most buses carried this alternate on their destination
screens.
The same day the
buses were showing the rou,te numbers all passengers are familiar with.
By the 4th new route numbers were in use.
Remembrance day
made a small variety to the new route numbers.
The Citaro was in good use.
Deckers transferred from Aylesbury included
5457, 5459 and 5460. The last was being used for an 800 service !
One is not sure if all the 280 branded
E400s are to lose same but here 5462 and 5463 have done so !
The changes are certainly proving of interest. Ed.
Upcoming OXBUSES meetings
A reminder about our meetings this autumn:
Wednesday 13
September
Geoff Bushell: Maltese
Buses History and Preservation Part 2: restoration of the two buses he
is preserving
Wednesday 11
October
Matt Bullock Heyfordian
Services 1947-2023
Wednesday 8
November
John Hammond: Cooks
of Biggleswade - a Bedfordshire Coach Operator
All meetings will be
from 7 to 9 p.m at the Norman Brown Room 2, Rose Hill Community Centre,
Carole's Way, Rose Hill, Oxford, OX4 4HF.
Oxford Bus Co service 3
passes the centre and services 3A and Thames Travel service X40 pass
within five minutes walk.
A bar is available after
the meetings. There are snacks but no meals are served. Parking is
available.
A day out with Jack Cooper
Jack Cooper
On Thursday, August
31st, I had
another great day out by bus, travelling through Newbury, Basingstoke,
Heathrow T5, Bracknell and Reading. Here is a list of the journeys I had
made.
X2: Abingdon to Didcot
- 230
X34: Didcot to Newbury - 622
Link: Newbury to
Basingstoke - 18081
731/730: Basingstoke
to Heathrow T5 - 762
703: Heathrow T5 to
Bracknell - 737
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X4: Bracknell to
Reading - 731
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X40: Reading to Oxford
- 927
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I was also lucky enough to get photos of 10433,
10434, 10436 and 10438 in Basingstoke. 10433 and 10434 have been
repainted into the new 'local' livery, however 10436 and 10438 are still
in the Beachball livery.
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As readers will see there is enormous variety of vehicles and operators around Heathrow. Ed.
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Paul Coley from Stoke Mandeville
Managed to get a decent photo of the penultimate Arriva 9 journey towards Stoke
Mandeville Hospital this evening, taken as the bus turns from Orwell Drive. The
paper route number, I think, probably says it all about their Aylesbury
operation now, which is just a shadow of its formal self. Red Rose have the
route to themselves from tomorrow.
I believe the 150 journeys are also going to MK depot, leaving Aylesbury with
just three routes but five ( if you include the variations) - 280/X8, 300/X30 and the 500,
with work for around 22 buses.
For me, route 9 has come full circle. The 9 was operated via Walton Court by Red
Rover, until that cracking little business was taken over by LDT. Of course, LDT
eventually morphed in to the wider ownership of Arriva. The late Chris Day,
formerly of Red Rover of course, help set up and run Red Rose, who now commence
operation of route 9 again on Monday.
A couple more photos taken at Stoke Mandeville
Hospital this evening,
with a good load heading towards Wycombe on
Arriva 3024.
Revised timetables are already in posted for the
changes, which include the withdrawal of Arriva 9.
Red Rose 9 departures
are listed, but the route is missing from the headers, which isn’t
really going to help intending passengers use the replacement service.
Also, within the headers, the 300 isn’t shown,
nor is the 130….just the very infrequent X30 and the scholars only S130.
Not sure what the Council is doing here, but it certainly isn’t at all
helpful
Tony Bungay about Aylesbury changes with routes via Stoke Mandeville
As the last Arriva
Aylesbury local service, the number 9 effectively finished today, though
operationally yesterday. I thought a small brief article with photos
from previous years to the final couple of days would be of interest.
The ‘Buses’ magazine in carrying an article sometime in 1980, made the journalistic comparison regarding the MAP project in Hereford and the decision by Midland Red to cease using the towns bus station, as being akin to the Ravens leaving the Tower of London!
It is perhaps
therefore that this comparison or similar no doubt has no doubt gone a
number of minds since Arriva announced their withdrawal from operating
the last Aylesbury local service a few weeks ago!
While they have been
in competition with Red Rose on this route for a few years now, it is
ironic that the service number and some of the route was originally
introduced by Aylesbury independent Red Rover in early 1979.
At the time the then new housing estate of Walton
Court and nearby Hawkslade were poorly served by Buses. The nearest
services were along Churchill Avenue (which still constitutes a section
of the 9) operated by United Counties Town services 369/370.
Red Rover proposed a
cross town service numbered 9 from Walton Court to at the time Rabans
lane industrial area. This was in the pre deregulation area, so
objections from United Counties who also countered with a new service
355 in the traffic courts. Produced a situation where United Counties
and Oxford south Midland were granted permission to operate a joint
service to Walton Court, United Counties numbered 355 and Oxford
extending their local service 262. Red Rover at this stage were granted
permission to only operate in the morning and afternoon peaks, and for
the first two weeks of their operation passengers were carried free!
I think with the
introduction of the North Buckinghamshire including Aylesbury in January
1981 a more co ordinated arrangement between the operators in the town
generally took place. United Counties I think renumbered the service 551
and operated it as an across town service.
With the break up of
United Counties and deregulation, again for a short period the new Luton
and District and Red Rover renumbered and revised routes. Though within
2 years Red Rover was taken over by Luton and District, which led to a
period of a number of years where all Aylesbury local services were
virtually with one operator other than possibly any council contracts.
About eighteen years ago Buckinghamshire County
Council launched the idea of Rainbow Routes, this being that specific
buses were colour coded to their route. In the case of the number 9 a
couple of fairly new mini pointer Denis Darts were painted in the then
Arriva style, but in Red. Thus the number 9 become Red Route 9 and
operated from Bedrove estate across town to Walton court and Stoke
Mandeville Hospital. After a number of years traffic congestion impacted
on reliability, so the route was split at the town centre with the
Bedgrove section being renumbered 8, which was coloured Pink, no
vehicles were actually painted for Pink route 8.
This left the number
9 to continue, and as Arriva withdrew from operating other local
services it obtained the honour of being the last local service they
were operating.
Vehicles used on this
service over the years have ranged from former London Transport DMS and
a collection of secondhand Leyland Nationals by Red Rover. United
Counties/Luton and District Leyland Nationals and less often Bristol
VRT. Into the Iveco and Mercedes Minibus era, to for what was quite a
while mainly Mini pointer Dennis Darts and Optare Solos. More recent
times have seen any vehicle operating this service.
As always if any other readers of this news page have any information etc they can contribute, to fill in gaps in the story. This will be most welcome.
Chris Huntingford in Oxford with spikes
“As
many will know, the St Giles fair in Oxford is occurring, and resulting
in buses rerouted. For three days, many routes are travelling out of the
west end of Broad Street. But to do so, they have to fit between the
building site of the new hotel that was Boswells store, and a number
plate recognition camera.
Unfortunately, the
fit is extremely tight. Further, the camera has anti-climbing spikes
which are horizontal, almost like knives. I suspect they are difficult
to see in mirrors. Already one Stagecoach S1 has a scratch most of the
way down its side, just under the upstairs window.
However, what is really frightening is the spikes are at exactly the level of the handrail on the open-top bus. Anyone with an arm dangling over the side but looking up at the colleges is at real risk of losing a limb.
Please see the picture.
Nobody likes a
“do-gooder”, but this looked so awful, I reported it at the travel
centre in Gloucester Green, and the tour bus staff were brilliant.
Within a few minutes, all drivers had been told to stop on Broad Street,
go upstairs, and tell everyone to move away from the right-hand side of
the bus.
I hope someone will query how this happened, and
why beforehand, the spikes were not removed from the camera as a
temporary measure.”
“[Update on the 4th September – OCC acted extremely quickly and have removed the spikes – so hopefully everything much safer now”.
Richard Sharman
Plaxton Panorama 50443 is seen making a late evening
departure from Oxford to London
passing through the ever changing skyline of the city
centre,
with a new building recently being completed opposite Westgate, seen
behind The Castle Pub.
Fleet News and developments
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Adam Green
This has now moved from High
Wycombe t
Malcolm Crowe
Cressex depot on September 2nd showing
3580 seemingly withdrawn.
Gavin Francis
63315 working the X74 pull out of Bridge St,
HW, on September 2nd.
September 4th sees two more buses working the
X74. 63313 and 63374.
Luke Marion
On the fleet points Malcolm, we have two x new ex-Xelabus E200s, these are 520 and
521 and are currently at Thames Travel. These will be upgraded to Euro 6 and
then transferred to Carousel for use on the County Rider services 581/583.
At the moment we have 531-534 on loan at Carousel
covering for these two x E200s and some other pending cascades, these are the 4
ex-London and ex-Cornwall vehicles you mention on your site this week!
We have two of the four Tourismos delivered now and the remainder are due later this
month. 2 will initially be loaned to Pulhams to help them until some new Irizar
coaches are delivered there.
We
are putting some temporary TT vinyls onto 520 and 521 for the time being.
531-534 are going to have the PCB / Cornwall vinyls removed in the near future as it is likely these will be staying with us for a while.
Grahame Wareham
I had to visit the JRH today so took advantage of the bright weather to take a few OBC shots,
665 SK66HTY and 902 NK20EKW both on X3's .........pity the destinations
didn't come out.
Also 521 YY66PDZ which, although has Thames Travel legal lettering, is
destined to go to Carousel along with 520.
Both 520 and 521 originated with Xelabus of Colden Common near Eastleigh and are ADL Enviro 20D 29 seat vehicles.
Andrew Webb
Carousel were using a variety of double deckers on services
into Slough on August 31st.
Carousel took over the 275 to Oxford on August 28th with some interesting buses purchased to operate this service on August 29th. However Tetsworth is currently not served due to emergency roadworks with services routing via the M40 or Thame inbound.
401 again leaving Bridge St with 505 in Oxford
Road and 409 at the depot on September 2nd.
431 at the depot and 461 working the 103.
869 followed by 879 leaving Bridge St with 505 on
September 2nd.
Sprinter 978
leaving Bridge St with a 39 on September 2nd.
532 at Stokenchurch with the 275 on September
1st.
534 working at Coachway Wycombe on September
1st.
Scania's working the 27 and 41 on September
4th.
Single decks hard at work on September 4th.
938 heads for Windsor on September
4th.
Graham Low
532 is seen rounding The Plain with the 275
on Septemb4er 1st.
Jack Cooper
241 is currently at Pulhams as at September 6th.
I travelled on 531 on August 29th.
Jack Cooper
Tourismo's 26 and 40 filmed at two locations in Heathrow on August 31st.
CSS 202 is seen in Magdalen Street East on August 29th.
MMC 604 in Magdalen Street West on August 29th.
668 branded for route 6 in Magdalen Street East on August 29th.
Richard Sharman
The new 'part of Go-Ahead' branding is now being rapidly being applied to the Oxford Bus Company fleet on vehicles in current liveries. Hopefully, the Pulham's Coaches fleet will follow suit and show the first signs of its new ownership.
Of particular note is the
Airline-liveried Tourismo's feature the new corporate branding underneath the
OxfordHeathrow&Gatwick section of the livery above the rear axles, rather than
near the Airline branding, making it look like the
said City and airports are
now part of the Australasian-owned group!.
241 is currently at Pulhams as at September 6th.
Kevin Fuller
Pulhams YX69NZE works route 51 in
Stratford-upon-Avon on September 1st.
Graham Low
They seem to have displaced two of the Connector-branded
E200MMCs for the ST2 to Carousel at Wycombe, on school work, apparently. I'm
sure there is a good reason for this.
Jack Cooper
Richard Sharman
Recent ADL E200 additions 520 and 521 are seen operating
on Thames Travel's ST2 service, as the evenings start to draw in. 521 seemingly
pressed into service prior to having its destination updated from its Xelabus
days.
including Courtney, Newbury & District & Thames Valley
August 2023 Update
Reading Buses
TfL specification BYD AD Enviro400EV demonstrator LD72XZS arrived on 11 August for loan until 22 September, and has been allocated fleet number 1004 for the duration of its stay. It will mainly be used on greenwave 50.
Seen in Reading by Jack Cooper
on August 31st.
We are expecting
two diesel demonstrators from ADL in September, one existing with Voith gearbox
and one new with ZF gearbox. They are likely to be used on claret 21a during
their stay.
411 returned from repaint on 7
August, renumbered 311 for its new role as a training bus. It has also been
registered RG53 BUS.
717 returned from seatback
replacement on 3 August
708
went away for seatback replacement and full
retrim on 3 August, returning on 22
August. The retrim is to an amended design that will be used on greenwave and
generic branded 706-9. Some of the replaced trim is being recycled to maintain
the others as/when they are damaged.
721 went away for seatback
replacement on 20 August and returned on 28 August.
714
went away for seatback replacement on 28 August.
1208 transferred in from Thames
Valley Buses on 1 September, following repaint into a special Reading Buses
Pride livery.
788 transferred in from N&D on 15
August.
795 transferred to Thames Valley
Buses on 21 August (ex Green Line 702).
760-2
went on loan to N&D from 21 August (ex Green Line 702).
Withdrawn 183 remains on site,
and has been registered back to its original YK05 CBV (ex RG05 BUS).
807/808 have been sold to
Centurian Travel, departing on 11 August.
Ancillary vehicle 355 was sold on
11/08/23 to a private buyer.
Ancillary vehicle 357 was sold
for scrap to A1 metal recycling on 18/08/23.
Newbury & District
760-2 have arrived on loan from
Reading Buses, entering service on 21 August. They have received temporary
Flightline 730/731 branding on base emerald livery (ex Green Line 702) for use
on the new Flightline 730/731 service until the new Volvo / Plaxton coaches
arrive.
788 transferred to Reading Buses
on 15 August.
1402 has been withdrawn for
disposal, and is currently stored at Reading.
141-44 entered service on 21
August.
795 transferred in from Reading
Buses on 21 August after receiving Flightline 703 lettering on base Green Line
livery.
1208 transferred to Reading Buses
on 1 September (ex Green Line 703).
1203 & 1204 are pending imminent
transfer out (ex Green Line 703).
Martin Dowling
As usual Reading Buses provided services to the festival last weekend. The
main route was 98 from station north to the festival site. Quite a number
of vehicles are needed for this to provide a frequent service, including some
from Newbury (including 1207 seen in the photo), generic buses and others
liveried for particular routes.
A second service (route 97) ran from the festival site to and from Friar Street in the town centre. Both of these routes have run in previous years, but there was another route this year which I think is new. This was route 99 for staff which ran to and from the station to Norcot junction via the festival staff entrance. Passengers for this were required to show staff ID so I imagine this was a free service paid for by the festival organisers. Gas bus 428 was in use in the photo.
Recently an ADL Enviro 400EV demonstrator, LD72XZS, ran
on route 50 to Green Park using fleet number 1004 (Reading usually numbers
demonstrators as 100x). Looking online this is, or is to be, London Ee100.
There is a short video on youtube showing it leaving St Mary's Butts and going
into West Street.
TfL specification BYD
AD Enviro400EV demonstrator LD72XZS arrived on 11 August for loan until
22 September, and has been allocated fleet number 1004 for the duration
of its stay. It will mainly be used on greenwave 50. We are expecting
two diesel demonstrators from ADL in September, one existing with Voith
gearbox and one new with ZF gearbox. They are likely to be used on
claret 21a during their stay.
There is a new service
from Reading to Caversham Heights on Sundays, route 40C which is
interworked with the X40 to and from Oxford. The new 40C parallels
Reading Buses route 22 which now only runs from Monday to Saturday.
This will provide a half-hourly evenly spaced service for Caversham
Heights on Sundays.
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Gavin Francis
More on September 4th, LJ09KPL and YX10BFZ working the 130.
Gavin Francis
Y21RRT first saw service as YX61FZC with
First London as DM44360 seen on September 2nd 2016.
E3RRT works route 40 on September 4th.
Graham Mildenhall
Appears Red Rose had an issue with a vehicle earlier this pm according
to a message I got from them via Twitter so I started looking on
bustimes.org to see what they were doing.
Spotted ex Whitelaws SF66ARV ADL E200D showing
as a 616 to Aylesbury (Waddesdon to Aylesbury schools service) but it
was in fact half way between Aylesbury and Bicester and looked a likely
candidate for a replacement vehicle. Sure enough on arrival in Bicester
it started showing as a 25 so a well timed visit outside resulted in the
attached image which you may like to use on a future page.
Not sure how many of the hourly trips they missed as a result but I’ve not seen a 25 as heavily loaded as this one was for a while!
10991 seems to have returned to Swindon following a short loan to Oxford.
Jack Cooper
15987 and 15993 on August 29th fitting into
their new home.
27714 works the S4 whilst 36981 and the blind
is blank on August 29th.
Richard Sharman
The former Stagecoach South ADL E400-bodied Scania's seem
to be doing well in the Oxford fleet, and most are in various stages of
debranding. 15991 has now had most of its Coastliner vinyls removed, apart from
on the rear, although the seagulls remain!.
It also seems rather ironic that the other half of this
batch of the 64-plate Scania's that were at Guildford depot can also be found
operating into Oxford on the S6 service from Swindon...just on the other side of
the closed railway bridge.
15991 on September 1st has lost much of its
Coastliner branding by September 1st.
Kevin Fuller
Stratford-upon-Avon
I had a few days in Stratford upon Avon last week, and took the attached
photos which you might want to use for the weekly newsletter. An
interesting, compact town, with most services provided by Stagecoach,
although some Pulhams and Diamond vehicles were also seen.
Livery variety in Stratford - 11227, 11229, 15672 and 15756.
CSS 18496 on a bright sunny day in Stratford.
19004 works Park & Ride whilst 10036 is seen with a 4 both in Stratford.
37138 and 37169 in the town.
All pictures were taken on 1st and 2nd September.
Andrew Webb
Electric Leicester
The Leicester Bus Partnership brings together Leicester City Council and all
local bus companies to transform buses in the city over the next 8 years.
This includes a network of services run by electric vehicles branded 'greenlines'.
Three operators have invested in brand new electric vehicles for Leicester.
The biggest fleet is operated by First who have selected GB Kite Electroliners
for use on service across the city. All are turned out in this striking
green livery, 63559 passing Haymarket Bus Station being a typical example.
The first electric buses to enter service in Leicester were a batch of Yutong
E12s with Roberts for use on the park and ride network. One is seen at St
Nicholas Circle bound for the park and ride at Meynells.
Centrebus has also turned to Yutong for electric buses, operating a range of
models. Smallest are a batch of three E9LFs which seat just 22 passengers
and can be found working 'Hop!', a free city centre circular. Fleet number
842 is seen in Southgates.
Despite seating just 22 passengers the E9LFs are dual doored with passengers
using both sets to board and alight. 840 shows off the dual doors whilst
acting as standby in St Margaret's Bus Station. With electric vehicles
being much quieter than their internal combustion powered cousins the hunt is on
for a sound to alert other road users of the bus' presence. The solution
used on these buses is for them to make a croaking noise!
Centrebus 850, a Yutong E10 shows off the generic 'greenlines' livery, seen
passing Haymarket Bus Station.
The operator also uses Yutong E12, with 823 being used on the Hospital Hopper route. It is seen leaving Leicester Royal Infirmary.