anglian bus trial's a man gas bus

Anglian Bus will be trialling an MAN GAS BUS(wx61fxo)  from 8th Dec to 23rd Dec 2011: it has been with norse (norwich) this week on the 100 to  County Hall Circular it will be with Anglia till christmas here are the service it will be doing 

Service 525 on 8th & 9th Dec
Service 601 on 12th/13th/15th/16th Dec
Service 588 on 19th/20th/21st/22nd Dec




it started off demo life off with stagecoach Merseyside side as photo shows  here

oxford bus company's new coach's

oxford bus company are to get 18 new scania plaxton Panther's for there airport services's from Oxford
the regs are as shown below and there due mid December

1	AF61 OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton  Panther	C44Ft		Airline
2	BF61 OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton  Panther	C44Ft		Airline
3	CF61 OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton Panther	C44Ft		Airline
4	DF61 OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton Panther	C44Ft		Airline
5	EF61 OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton Panther	C44Ft		Airline
6	FF61 OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton Panther	C44Ft		Airline
7	GF61OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton Panther	C44Ft		Airline
8	HF61 OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton Panther	C44Ft		Airline
9	JF61 OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton Panther	C44Ft		Airline
10	KF61 OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton Panther	C44Ft		Airline
11	LF61 OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton Panther	C44Ft		Airline
12	MF61OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton Panther	C44Ft		Airline
13	OF61OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton Panther	C44Ft		Airline
14	PF61 OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton Panther	C44Ft		Airline
15	RF61 OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton Panther	C44Ft		Airline
16	SF61 OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton Panther	C44Ft		Airline
17	TF61 OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton Panther	C44Ft		Airline
18	UF61 OXF	Scania K360EB / Plaxton Panther	C44Ft		Airline

megabus's news with new vahool Astromegas on there way for wale

News has just come in to me about the movment of coaches and  new vahools astromegas for the cwmbran depot they are as follows
50233 CN61 FAA (DUE NEXT WEEK)
50234 CN61 FAJ ( DUE NEXT WEEK)
50235 CN61 FAK
50236 CN61 FAM
50237 CN61 FAO
50238 CN61 FAU
50239 CN61 FBA
50240 CN61 FBB
50241 CN61 FBC
50242 CN61 FBD
50243 CN61 FBE

 when the new vahools enter service they will replace the B12'S (54001/2/3/4/5/6/7)and B13 (54101) at Cwmbran. and move to rugby after there been plaxton for new toilets and a respray  once there at rugby there replace the b10 jonks sadly also three more of the panther II B9'S are due at rugby by the end of this week 

Dews Coaches of somersham *NEW B13R*

(c) ron dew 

Dews Coaches of Somersham has taken delivery of a new 13-metre B13R Volvo 53-seater with 9700 bodywork, the company’s first new Volvo coach in 14 years.
Says Simon Dew: “Volvo provided a B13R demonstrator earlier this year, it performed well and we really liked it. Off the back of that we decided to open discussions about purchasing a new coach”.
The tri-axle coach has Volvo’s 13-litre 460bhp Euro 5 engine, and I-Shift 12-speed automated gearbox. Dews has put the coach on its international tour programme.

Trent Barton buys felix bus

Wellglade – which owns Trent Barton – has bought the Ilkeston-Derby bus operation of Stanley-based Felix.
It is taking on the 10 staff and the six buses used by Felix, which started its bus operations on the route in 1924, is one of the few remaining pre-deregulation independent bus operators.
The Ilkeston Flyer provides an express service into Derby whilst the Black Cat follows a route via Stanley and Chaddesden into the city centre. 

The assets involved in the agreement – sold for an undisclosed sum - will be transferred at the end of January 2012. Meanwhile Felix will retain its own brand name and continue its coach operations.

The following buses will pass to Wellglade

Scanias (YN03 YRA), (YN04 AGY), YN05 GZB).

VDLs (YJ56 KBF), (YJ08 EFL).

Volvo (FL10 NFV)

The Volvo is expected to go to Kinchbus on the SkyLink service.

The date of sale is end Jan 2012, Felix will retain the solos, and the V and M
plate volvos to operate Kirk Hallam schools until the end of March 2012 when the
operators licence expires.

The coach work, but not the coaches themselves, will pass to Swiftsure of
Burton-on-Trent. The coaches will be sold.

London 26th november

well what can i say london on the 26th was great lot's of coaches to photo lots trains and buses bashed .

G15ELY

52659-V909DDY

so it began with 19589 on the 6:20am citi8 from histon to cambridge and the a quick swap on to 19619 to the rail stn as was hopeing to get on the 6:45 due to the citi8 running early in to town but that failed when i finally got through the ticket barriers as i see the train go past me on it way to london D'oh . but not to worry i got the next first capital connect train

WA61AKU  on the 446 kings lynn to london seen on park lane

SJI1631 at west ham stagecoach depot

that was  317-343 on a full 1h25min stopper so i hopped on as was nice and toasty head phones in my ears and a bit of  clapton the time flew past with and by 8:20 i arrived in to kings cross i quickly headed for the underground and got the victora line to victora  were i then don my first 455-838 to clapham jcn then 377-303 & 377-318 back to victora after i arived back in victora i took a 3 min walk to the coach station to get my ''fix'' of megabus b10m jonks i didnt have to wait long when 52659-V909DDY arriverd just as i was off to get a bacon roll and tea for just £2 bargin. i then stood at the top of vcs by the oxford tube stop on the corner about a hour later after photoing many new lavanies  and megabus i took wvl76 from vcs to victora then done HV30 from victora to marble arch  as i jumped off it due to the fact i just passed the brand new greys of ely panther 2 after i happly photoed it i stop on a grass bank  on park lane photoing many new coaches  includeing a kings ferry vip coach ,a  brand new chaffont volvo b13 vanhool (get in ) i photoed many other coaches in the time i was there i then after traveling around wills mothers and half of north west london to stratford (dont ask ) to photo the mega bus sleeper coach at west ham depot  after photoing it i went on a random jolly around london of bashing both bus and train photos off the day can be fould  here 

buses and trains bashed
Buses
19589 histon to cambridge citi8
19619 cambridge to cambridge rail stn citi1
WVL76 vcs -victora 44 go ahead
HV30 victora - marble arch  72 arriva london
PVL325 marble arch - sussex gardens
SEL750 Sussex gardens- paddington 7 metroline
TE1101 paddington-maids of ale 332 metroline
DLD173 kings cross -angel stn 274 metroline
HDC7 angle stn-liverpool st 153 CT plus
WVL414 canningtown to east ham 474 go ahead
DE94 victora-victora coach stn c1 london united
pvl200 Vaxhall-covent garden market 87 go ahead
E138 covent garden market -vaxhall 77 go ahead
vle44 charring cross -aldwich 9 london united
tp417 aldwich-barbican 4 metroline
15156 barbican-angel stn 56 stagecoach london
DW426 angle-holborn 38 arivva london
Train's
317-343 cambridge to kings cross (first capital connect) 
455-838 victora to clapham jcn  (southern)
377-204 + 377-126 clapham jcn to victora  (southern)
378-215 wilsden jct - west Hampstead  (london overground)
319-437 West Hampstead- st Pancras  (first capital connect)
321-319 + 321-353 liverpool st - stratford (National express east Anglia)
357-209 West ham - fenchurch st  (c2c)
377-204 + 377-126 victora- clapham jcn    (southern)
455-912  clapham jcn-vaxhall  (south west trains)
450-567+450-549 vaxhall-waterloo  (south west trains)
465-173 + 465-037 waterloo east - charring cross  (south easten)
365-525 +365-507 kings cross-cambridge  (first capital connect)

tubes/dlr
victora line
bakerloo line
northen line
DLR -stratford-star lane

  
photos of the day can be fould  here 

Trip to Cambridge

Had a trip in to Cambridge today to meet up with a mate on the 75's . on my way to town i took the busway from Histon to The science park  to have a look up cowley rd  to have a look up the depot so see what was about and to some good luck i was lucky to see newly converted sighseeing trident 17079-T679KPU just leaving on it day of touring around Cambridge . also noted was 17078  had been put on to  private plate TSU369 this was thanks to one of the mechanic's coming a cross to me at the fence asking if i could send him a photo of him driving 22315 up  to the depot in return he was saying that all the new open tops are to have private plates but the rest are still unknown at present but left me another time to photo it on it new plates        

17078 showing it new plate TSU369

17079-T679KPU with it original reg at the moment 

rear of 17079

 After my trip up to cowley  rd i walked back to science park to get a bus in to town i landed 19308-AE07KZK on milton p+r to cambridge  were i meet up with a driver mate at whippet and took a trip with him on the 75 with k713ASC which was a first time on that bus for me and rare to see it in cambridge now days. you cant beat a good leyland olys in Cambridge after my two hour  around trip to croydon and back it was time to go to back to work . so i decided to get the citi 8 back to histon which produced 19611-AE11BYA all in all not a bad day in the city .london tomorow who knows what the day will bring a full report  of the day will be posted here on sunday 

k713asc leaveing on the 14:00 75 to orwell