From the Editor
Bridge Works on the Botley Road by Jack Cooper
Upcoming changes to services of Arriva
The Shires
The Go-Ahead Group creating world-leading
electric charging hub in Oxford
A day in Swindon by Richard Sharman
Thames Valley Park Shuttle Service
by Martin Dowling
Buses in the Bristol Landscape
Coach Visitors to Oxford
Fleet News and Developments
London Operations by Gavin Francis
Christmas overall advert on Scottish
Panorama
Jack Cooper visits Brighton, Crawley and
Bristol
Bridge Works on the Botley Road by Jack Cooper
The works so far.
A good question.
Stagecoach using the Botley Road turning circle.
from
Matt
King,
Network
Manager – Midlands
Upcoming changes to services of Arriva The Shires
Trust you’re keeping well and
thank you once again for your continued reporting on the Oxford & Chiltern Bus
Page. Thought it’d be worthwhile dropping a note to update your readers on
forthcoming service changes in Buckinghamshire from 7 January 2024. More
information can be found
here for Aylesbury and
here for High Wycombe.
We’re making some exciting changes to the
Buckinghamshire network from Sunday 7 January, bringing a new identity to our
wide-reaching interurban network linking towns and cities across the region with
Aylesbury serving as the key interchange point.
Our ambition for and the wider Buckinghamshire network
is to provide an interurban, hub-and-spoke network of services that feel more
cohesive and joined-up to our customers. Providing seamless connections to allow
for easier transition between our services is a catalyst for growth that we've
seen elsewhere in the country. Evidently, this approach has been remarkably
successful when applied in an urban market in High Wycombe, with patronage
growing significantly since the introduction of the new services which has
supported the longer-term sustainability of the network.
We also need to respond to the changing travel demands
of our customers as well as to significantly improve our on-time performance,
one of (if not the) most important driver of customer satisfaction for bus
users. This is challenging on any interurban route, but certainly one that has
been compounded on the Aylesbury to Oxford corridor. As Toby France discussed in
August, through a lengthy period of data-gathering, we've now a better
understanding of the impacts of LTNs and improving bus priority in Oxford on
real-world running times. These both mean that we're confident in delivering a
realistic and achievable timetable on this busy corridor.
Are we going to get everything right first time? No -
but these timetables give us the solid platform or foundation to build up and
improve from. These changes perform the hard reset on the network which provides
a stable baseline that refines slowly over time; a network that's adaptable from
a strong starting position. High Wycombe's network is one step ahead in this
principle, with the forthcoming changes in January being almost entirely built
up from customers' feedback, something we promised to do back in September. The
other influence being robust on time performance data, leading to small tweaks
and refinements which are far easier to deliver with the simpler network that we
launched earlier in the autumn; a process we can emulate for Aylesbury. We
actively encourage constructive feedback through Arriva's usual channels - we
see every suggestion made, and if not achievable, we will always explain why.
We've had a very insightful and interesting debate
internally on the best nomenclature of the new services. The desire is to create
a simple, cohesive network of interurban services that is both easy to
transition for our current customer base as well as being a fresh proposition
for potential new bus customers has, in our view, been achieved in the "X"
unifier, with our future customer messaging focused on this theme. This'll
always be subjective in this community and that's always going to be a creative
discussion, but there's no right answer - for us, it's about what is right for
our customers, and the ambition to attract new users to bus is a desire for any
company, so we've applied a logic that is tried and tested.
Here’s what’s changing:
-
X4 & X40
– Linking Aylesbury to Milton Keynes, this is the fresh identity for routes
150 and 250. We’re not making any route or timetable changes, with a view to
do so when we have a better understanding of customer’s travel needs
following the route realignment in September.
-
X5
– Linking Aylesbury to Hemel Hempstead, this is the new look for route 500.
Departure times from Aylesbury are now coordinated with other services to
make transfers between routes simple, quick and easy. All journeys will now
follow the same route in Tring, meaning we'll no longer operate the
twice-daily diversion along Station Road.
-
X6
– Linking Aylesbury to Buckingham and Milton Keynes, we’ve renumbered route
X60 to sequence with the rest of the Buckinghamshire interurban network.
There’s no change to the route or timetable, and we’re working with Milton
Keynes City Council on ways to best delineate between the two X6 services.
-
X7/X8
- NEW service X7 will operate between Aylesbury, Haddenham, Thame, Wheatley
and Oxford up to every 30 minutes, and NEW service X8 will operate between
Thame and Oxford, taking a quicker route along the A40, also up to every 30
minutes. Together, routes X7 & X8 offer four buses an hour between Thame and
Oxford and coordinate to run up to every 15 minutes between Sandhills and
Oxford city centre. We’ve reinvested the time saved by omitting Wheatley
back into the timetable to help bolster point-to-point running times.
We're DOUBLING the number of buses on route X7 on
Sundays, enhancing the frequency to every 30 minutes between Oxford and Thame.
We’re also adding an additional later evening service, leaving at 23:00 on
Monday to Saturday. Following our customer feedback, we’ve completed a top-down
review of our timetable to help improve our timekeeping. We've also retimed
journeys to better serve scholars at Aylesbury High, Sir Henry Floyd and Lord
Williams's Schools. This directly replaces route 280 and the “old” X8.
-
X9/X90
- Connecting Aylesbury, Princes Risborough through Walter's Ash and Naphill
to High Wycombe, up to every 20 minutes. We've made improvements to the
timetable to help keep our buses running on time. We've also retimed
journeys to better serve scholars to and from Wycombe High, John Hampden,
and Princes Risborough Schools. This new X9 service directly replaces route
300, with X90 replacing route X30.
As previously mentioned, we’re also making substantial
improvements to the High Wycombe town network, including DOUBLING frequencies of
buses to Downley and Bourne End on Sundays. As we promised, every route in High
Wycombe has been in focus as we listen and respond to our customer’s feedback,
such as providing earlier journeys to Booker from the town centre and later
buses to Totteridge and Castlefield. We’re also building in some tweaks to
better serve schools in the area. With the cooperation and support of the local
parish council, some tree cutting in Binfield Heath will allow us greater
flexibility to allocate more double deckers to routes 800/850 to give more seats
per hour at the busiest times. We’ll continue this pattern of refinement
Tony Bungay also alerted me to these changes.
Interesting times to come. Ed.
The Go-Ahead Group creating world-leading electric
charging hub in Oxford
https://www.zenobe.com/uk/
The Go-Ahead Group has commenced work to install
one of the biggest electric charging hubs in the UK at the depot of its
Oxford Bus Company operation.
Zenobē, the UK’s leading fleet electrification
specialist, has begun work to install extensive charging infrastructure
at Cowley House.
The 104 charging points, each offering 150kw of
DC power, are being installed ahead of Oxford Bus Company receiving the
first delivery of electric buses later this year.
The hub will be supplied by an 8 Megawatt (MW)
electrical connection, which will provide enough electricity to charge
all 104 buses, enough for each bus to drive over 170 miles per day. The
charging hub will produce enough electricity to power the equivalent of:
- More than 16,000 average family homes
- More than 130,000 TVs simultaneously
- Boiling 2,700 kettles continuously
With co-funding from Go Ahead Group, Oxfordshire
County Council and the Department for Transport’s Zero Emission Bus
Regional Areas (ZEBRA) scheme, Oxford Bus Company has ordered 104 new
electric buses to begin arriving on Oxford’s streets in late 2023.
A consortium of bus operators, including the
Oxford Bus Company, pledged £43.7M towards the scheme; the government
committed £32.8M and Oxfordshire County Council £6M. In total, the
combined investment will result in 159 new battery electric buses
serving Oxford. Oxfordshire was one of only 12 local authorities to
successfully apply for ZEBRA funding and is one of the biggest schemes
in the country.
Luke Marion, Oxford Bus Company Managing
Director, said: “This is another exciting step forward in our extensive
infrastructure scope of works in preparation for transforming our city
services to electric. Partnering with Zenobē ensures we will receive the
best-in-class advice and technology to fully equip us with a market
leading charging solution that meets our needs.
“We’re looking forward to introducing the first
tranche of electric buses later in the year, which will help improve air
quality and make bus travel an even more attractive option for people to
travel around Oxford.”
The Oxford Bus Company’s owner, Go-Ahead, is one
of the UK’s largest bus and rail operators. Under a strategy called ‘The
Next Billion Journeys’, Go-Ahead has pledged to convert its 5,500-strong
bus fleet nationwide to zero emission energy.
Christian Schreyer, Group Chief Executive, said:
“Customers in Oxford can look forward to clean, green, comfortable buses
when this work is complete. This is a great example of bus operators
working in partnership with local and national government to deliver
zero-emission transport.”
The commencement of works is the latest stage in
the ambitious urban decarbonisation project, Energy Superhub Oxford. The
four-year project has seen innovations such as the creation of a
first-of-a-kind battery storage system, a high-power private wire
charging network, and an electric vehicle (EV) charging hub at Redbridge
Park & Ride.
To enable the buses to charge overnight, the
depot charging infrastructure being installed by Zenobē will be powered
by an EDF Renewables UK substation at Oxford Bus Company’s Watlington
Road depot.
Steven Meersman, Co-Founder Director of Zenobē,
said: “This is a flagship project for Zenobē. It is an example of what
an ambitious operator can do with a strong vision and local support.
We have worked on more than 50 electrification projects globally, and
this one stands out for its scale and for the level of collaboration
with other operators and the government. It has been great
collaborating with Luke Marion and his team: we are happy to have
started work and are looking forward to seeing the first buses on the
road later this year."
In 2020, Oxford Bus Company introduced the first
double deck electric bus to Oxford via its City Sightseeing Oxford
fleet. It now has three retrofitted electric vehicles in its fleet,
which were delivered in partnership with Oxford City Council.
The arrival of the fleet of electric buses is
expected to support a further drop in NOx levels to help clean up
Oxford’s air pollution as part of wider aims for Oxfordshire to become a
net carbon zero county by 2025.
All the new buses are being manufactured in the
UK and are expected to arrive by June 2024. The Go-Ahead Group is an
international provider of public transport services, and its Oxford
division includes Oxford Bus Company, Thames Travel, City Sightseeing
Oxford, Carousel Buses and Pulhams Coaches.
A day in Swindon by Richard Sharman
Swindon Bus Company had a number of DOE class former
Go-Ahead London deckers on loan to cover for ADL E200MMCs that went on loan to
Go North West.
These started to return at the end of October/ start of
November and thus the DOE's are now being withdrawn at Swindon. As of this week
only DOE24/5 and 9 remain in use on service 5, complete with the correct
blinds.
A number of comments seem to suggest that service 5 does
require double deckers, and observations at evening peaks certainly seem to
support that single decks do struggle.
Withdrawn DOE3 and 13 were both observed heading towards
Oxford Bus Company's depot on 22/11.
Most of Swindon Bus Company's fleet has now been fitted
with the new 'Part of Go-Ahead' branding.
Stagecoach West's Swindon depot still plays host to a
number of Alexander ALX400-bodied Dennis Tridents, including three in
'Specialist livery'.
A real treat for ALX400 fans. Ed.
Thames Valley Park is a business park on the
outskirts of Reading which has a bespoke bus service to and from Reading
station. Stewarts of Mortimer have had the
contract for some years using 62 plate Citaros, but recently I have
noticed fully electric minibuses working during the day. The main
flows are in the morning and evening peaks, but a service is operated
all day long with much lighter loadings.
Here are a few photos
taken earlier this morning outside the station. In the background
of one you can see the building that caught fire last week when workmen
were dramatically rescued in a cage lifted by a crane.
I am not sure what
these vehicles are. They are listed as Altas if you check the tax
status on the .gov website, but I imagine they are based on another
manufacturer's chassis and bodywork.
https://altasauto.com/products/electric-minibuses/
https://thamesvalleypark.com/new-zero-carbon-electric-mini-buses-arrive-at-thames-valley-park/
This suggests that they have been around since
October. There are several photos there and they look very
luxurious with 2+1 seating. It also mentions that two larger
electric buses are on order so that the entire fleet will be electrified
'early next year'.
Latest News - Thames Valley Park
Gavin Francis on Electric buses in Oxford and a
timetable in High Wycombe
Over 5 years ago they had a single decker Yutong for a
couple of weeks. (Picture attached). This bus did the rounds as a demonstrator
and I believe it is now in the Newport Bus fleet.
Must admit when I read that I thought it was not right. Mike
Walker
Have you noticed the bus map outside ASDA at Wycombe.?
It still shows all the routes as being colour
co-ordinated, it must be years since we had a route coloured bus in Wycombe.
Of course to make matters worse all the route numbers
have been changed so good luck to anybody wanting to get bus information for the
area from this map.
Neil Gow reminds us that the first
electric buses in Oxford were between 20 and 30 years.
With new electric buses hitting the streets of Oxford,
here’s a reminder of the previous generation – the four battery electric Optare
Metroriders that were operated on the City Circuit service by Oxford Bus Company
for four years between 1993 and 1997. Here are 801 at the rail station in
December 2003 with 803 seen on the charger on the same day, then 802 in St Giles
in June 1996 and 804 arriving at the station in July 1997.
I believe some of these buses ended up in
Jersey. Ed.
Peter Cartwright on Running Days past and
future
Firstly may endorse Gavin's report on the Finchley Running Day. I too
found it a most enjoyable event and rode on a number of buses during the day as
well as well as making contact with many I have known for some time and
meeting new enthusiasts. Having travelled to Uxbridge from Wycombe Marsh on a
very busy Carousel 102 ex Wycombe at 07.20 and returned from Uxbridge on an
equally busy 102 at 18.20 , I was surprised how busy the Metropolitan Line was
on a Sunday as were a number of the Routemasters I travelled on during the day.
The Amersham & District Motorbus Society has decided on four dates for
Running Days in 2024 namely:
Sunday 7 April HERTFORD
Sunday 2 June HIGH WYCOMBE
Sunday 28 July WINDSOR - marking 40 years since the closure of WR garage.
Sunday 6 October CHESHAM
I also note that Arriva are to make significant changes in the Aylesbury area
from 7 January 2024 as we say goodbye to 150, 250, 280, 300 , 500 and X30 whist
welcoming X4, X40, X5, X6, X7, X9 AND X90. X8 remains but as a much enhanced
service. Details are on the Arriva website.
High Wycombe also has changes from the same date but this appears to be
rectifying gaps in the service which had already been highlighted following the
"Glow Up" introduced in September 2023.
RML2440 will, once more, be traversing route 159 on Saturday 9 December 2023. It
does not seem 18 years since I drove it over route 159 ( route 711
blinds displayed) just before RM2217 which was the last bus into Brixton garage
that day. The 159 event is organised by the Routemaster Association and we meet
at the Ace Cafe on the North Circular Road for a late breakfast before embarking
on our trip through Central London and view the lights upon return from South
London. 711 RELIEF blinds will once again be displayed as we leave High
Wycombe bus station circa 09.00.
Jack Cooper
SC West's 10749 SN66VXT passes below the Clifton Suspension Bridge near
Bristol on November 22nd working route 9.
The duties are worked out of North Bristol where
many of the Witney E40MMCs are going. 11233 and 11234 have now gone. Ed.
Coach visitors to Oxfordshire
David Beynon
Visitor variety at the end of November 2023
In the city.
At Redbridge.
Fleet News and developments
Gavin Francis
7210 seen picking up in Park Lane with a 757
service on November 27th.
Jack Cooper
E400 5465 with an X8 service in Oxford on
November 20th.
Kevin Fuller
A couple of Arriva pictures for you this week from Bourne End station on a wet
Sunday 26th November:
1) Citaro 3920 works the 13.35 route 7A to High Wycombe.
2) Versa 2955 arrives at the station, ready for the 14.35 7A departure to High
Wycombe.
Paul Weal
Arriva E400 4401 at The Hare,
Southcott Village with an Aylesbury bound 150.
The 150 is shortly to be
renumbered X4 despite there being no change to the route or timetable. It is
neither a limited stop or express service and all of the extensive roadside
publicity will need replacing. Even worse, the X60 becomes the X6 for no
apparent reason. There is already an X6 in Milton Keynes!
There is an old adage,
don't change things unless you need to as it confuses your passengers. I guess
the main beneficiaries of Arriva's Aylesbury renumbering's will be the Red
group.
In better news, BSIP funding has helped Arriva to provide
a later evening service on Monday to Saturday on the F70/F77. The Sunday service
is doubled to hourly.
Gavin Francis
216 at the depot on November 25th.
%32 in Oxford with a 275 service on November 29th.
The new Electroliner Fleet as at November 30th.
|
BJ73WWE |
Wt StDk Elr SC5DDREXU23000429 |
Wt AV164 |
H70F |
11/2023 |
City of Oxford |
701 |
|
BJ73WWF |
Wt StDk Elr SC5DDREXU23000430 |
Wt AV165 |
H70F |
11/2023 |
City of Oxford |
702 |
|
BJ73WWG |
Wt StDk Elr SC5DDREXU23000431 |
Wt AV166 |
H70F |
11/2023 |
City of Oxford |
703 |
|
BJ73WWH |
Wt StDk Elr SC5DDREXU23000432 |
Wt AV167 |
H70F |
11/2023 |
City of Oxford |
704 |
|
BJ73WWK |
Wt StDk Elr SC5DDREXU23000433 |
Wt AV168 |
H70F |
11/2023 |
City of Oxford |
705 |
|
BJ73WWL |
Wt StDk Elr SC5DDREXU23000434 |
Wt |
H70F |
11/2023 |
City of Oxford |
706 |
|
BJ73WWM |
Wt StDk Elr SC5DDREXU23000435 |
Wt |
H70F |
11/2023 |
City of Oxford |
707 |
|
BJ73WWN |
Wt StDk Elr SC5DDREXU23000436 |
Wt |
H70F |
11/2023 |
City of Oxford |
708 |
|
BJ73WWO |
Wt StDk Elr SC5DDREXU23000437 |
Wt |
H70F |
11/2023 |
City of Oxford |
709 |
|
BJ73WWP |
Wt StDk Elr SC5DDREXU23000438 |
Wt |
H70F |
11/2023 |
City of Oxford |
710 |
|
BJ73WWR |
Wt StDk Elr SC5DDREXU23000439 |
Wt |
H70F |
11/2023 |
City of Oxford |
711 |
|
BJ73WWS |
Wt StDk Elr SC5DDREXU23000440 |
Wt |
H70F |
11/2023 |
City of Oxford |
712 |
|
BJ73WWT |
Wt StDk Elr SC5DDREXU23000441 |
Wt |
H70F |
11/2023 |
City of Oxford |
713 |
Gavin Francis
252 seen in St Aldates with a 5A on November
29th.
311, 666 and 673 in St Aldates on November
29th.
702 working the 400 on November 29th.
Seen at the JRH 702 is working the 100 on
November 29th.
847seen in St Aldates with a 35 on November
29th.
901 working an X3 at the JRH on November
29th.
Sprinter 975 working the recently introduced
108 service in St Aldates on November 29th.
DOE13 seen in St Aldates with a 35 on
November 29th.
Graham Low
I have just seen that Thames Travel 253/4 have had their
River Rapids branding newly restored after some months of running in plain blue
(together with similar 251/2) on other routes. 253 is on the X40 today.
I attach a view of the first Wright
StreetDeck Electroliner 701 at Oxford Station today the 29th.
Jack Cooper
29 seen at Gatwick on November 24th.
376 is in Speedwell Street with a 400 service on November 24th.
604seen in St Aldates with a 400 on November
29th.
682 is seen turning into Speedwell Street with a 15 road service
on November 29th.
Peter Edgar
Oxford Bus Company 701 in Castle Street on
November 29th.
pignbob
OX 701 departs Osney Island after finishing a 4A trip from Westminster
Way ready to go work a 400 on the 28th.
704 seen in Park End Street on November 30th, its first day in service
working the 400.
Ryan Butler
Ex-London DOE13 has recently transferred from Sailsbury to Oxford, with
bustimes.org saying it first ran in Oxford
on Friday (24th November).
I've managed to catch it today (Monday 26th November)
on the 6 road
pignbob
701 departs Osney Island after finishing a 4A trip from Westminster Way
ready to go work a 400 on November 28th.
First day in service 704 in Park End Street on November 30th.
Charles Powell
The weekend just gone we were helping with the Bicester village park and ride.
We had five deckers on it each day over the weekend. Here’s some pictures from the
weekend.
One presumes that this operation will go through to Christmas. Ed.
Colin Pidgeon
Go Ahead Pulhams have re-started operating Service 64 Swindon-Witney after an
absence of 7 years.
Here is FF73BUS at Swindon Bus Station.
These buses were built at the same time as those for Redline. Ed.
Gavin Francis
934, 863 and 907 seen in St Aldates on
November 29th.
922 is seen at CAROUSEL on November 25th and
previously was GA London WVN24seen in August 2012.
855 seen in St Aldates and 863 at Osney on
November 29th.
Gavin Francis
The uber branded Levante III 328 with an A6 at
Marble Arch on November 27th.
Gavin Francis
Redline YX12AZN with an X20 in High St, Oxford
with YX63LJE in St Aldates on November 29th.
Paul Weal
Red Line E200 YX09FMC
(originally with Metroline I believe) in Wing Road Linslade
with the Tuesday
only 167 now operated by Red Rose. November
28th.
Gavin Francis
E10RRT in Stokenchurch on
November 24th and a previous holder of this registration August 14th 2020.
Before E10 in the first picture this bus was YX58DTY originally with Travel
London as seen in August 2013.
Two other E200s now Y22 and 23RRT working the
40 on November 28th.
Gavin Francis
15343 with an S6 on November 29th in Oxford (Osney) flanked by5 branded
Oxford 656.
Latest news from Witney depot, November 30th.
11233 and 11234 are in Bristol. 11747-11754 are
in service in Witney. With 11755 and 11756 awaiting PDI. 11243-11247 are
working in Oxford.
| 11747 |
|
YX73OYS |
AD E40D SFD938ER7PGX32266 |
AD N445/1 |
H47/32F |
11/2023 |
Thames Transit |
| 11748 |
|
YX73OYU |
AD E40D SFD938ER7PGX32267 |
AD N445/2 |
H47/32F |
11/2023 |
Thames Transit |
| 11749 |
|
YX73OYV |
AD E40D SFD938ER7PGX32268 |
AD N445/3 |
H47/32F |
11/2023 |
Thames Transit |
| 11750 |
|
YX73OYW |
AD E40D SFD938ER7PGX32269 |
AD N445/4 |
H47/32F |
11/2023 |
Thames Transit |
| 11751 |
|
YX73OYY |
AD E40D SFD938ER7PGX32270 |
AD N445/5 |
H47/32F |
11/2023 |
Thames Transit |
| 11752 |
|
YX73OYZ |
AD E40D SFD938ER7PGX32271 |
AD N445/6 |
H47/32F |
11/2023 |
Thames Transit |
| 11753 |
|
YX73OZA |
AD E40D SFD938ER7PGX32272 |
AD N445/7 |
H47/32F |
11/2023 |
Thames Transit |
| 11754 |
|
YX73OZB |
AD E40D SFD938ER7PGX32274 |
AD N445/8 |
H47/32F |
11/2023 |
Thames Transit |
| 11755 |
|
YX73OZC |
AD E40D SFD938ER7PGX32275 |
AD N445/9 |
H47/32F |
11/2023 |
Thames Transit |
| 11756 |
|
YX73OZD |
AD E40D SFD938ER7PGX32276 |
AD N445/10 |
H47/32F |
11/2023 |
Thames Transit |
| 11757 |
|
YX73OZE |
AD E40D |
AD N445/11 |
H47/32F |
/2023 |
Thames Transit |
| 11758 |
|
YX73OZF |
AD E40D |
AD N445/12 |
H47/32F |
/2023 |
Thames Transit |
| 11759 |
|
YX73OZG |
AD E40D |
AD N445/13 |
H47/32F |
/2023 |
Thames Transit |
| 11760 |
|
YX73OZH |
AD E40D |
AD N445/14 |
H47/32F |
/2023 |
Thames Transit |
| 11761 |
|
YX73OZJ |
AD E40D |
AD N445/15 |
H47/32F |
/2023 |
Thames Transit |
Gavin Francis
Variety at the Rail Station and St Aldates on
November 29th.
Graham Low
One of the new Stagecoach
West's ADL Enviro400MMCs at Witney is 11747, seen here on 25 November in George
Street.
Stagecoach ADL E400MMC (11752) nearby. I saw
an ex Witney E400 on route 8 today,
James Lambeth
Witney's brand new E400MMC 11754 / YX73 OZB out on the S1 in Oxford
last night,
this is currently tracking as 11233
(which transferred to Bristol yesterday) 28/11/2023
Peter Edgar
Stagecoach 11752 at Oxford Railway Station.
Jack Cooper
10800 in difficulty at Gloucester Green on
November 21st..
Gavin Francis
The old order 50274 heads up St Aldates on November
29th.
,
The newer in London with 50449 and 50454 on November 27th.
London operations
Gavin Francis
A gathering of wraps at Marble Arch on November
27th.
RATP offers colour variety on similar buses
working the 94 on November 27th.
A choice of open top tour operators on
November 27th.
Update on Flixbus at Marble Arch on November
27th.
Reader's visits outside our
area
by Gordon Scott
Taken
today at Edinburgh Bus Station Parks of Hamilton
HSK 659 Volvo B11R Plaxton Panorama
with full Xmas
overall advert for route 900 Edinburgh to Glasgow.
by
Jack Cooper
Brighton and Crawley
Jack has been on a day trip via
Gatwick to Brighton calling at Crawley on November 24th.
CRAWLEY
Great variety for the enthusiast in this
fleet.
Bristol
Jack has been on a day trip to
Bristol on November 22nd,
