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By ESK VALLEY COACHES 9th March 2022

… RAF emergency airfield and purchased first new coach, Volvo B8R/Plaxton Panther YX69 LHA, in 2019. Where does it … and Optare Solo MX54 KXW (new to TLC, West Bowling) in 2012. By ANDREW JAROSZ SCOTTISH COLUMN New grant replaces … but no branding as yet. Wright Eclipse Urban-bodied Volvo B7RLE 69225 has been given First driver training livery. …

10th December 2021

… Further to last month’s report, recently acquired Volvo B10M-50 Citybus/East Lancs H49/49F G611 BPH (FIL 250, … came from Arriva Midlands in August. Luton-based Volvo B7RLE/Wright Eclipse 2 3962 (LT63 UNF) has been named Rob … was entered in the UK Coach Rally in Peterborough in April 2012. ALAN MILLAR First Essex Volvo B7RLE/Wright Eclipse …

By JOHN G. LIDSTONE With additional material compiled by LAWRIE BOWLES and JOHN YOUNG 9th June 2021

… 100 and named Grinch. It has the original style body. Volvo B7TL/Wright Eclipse Gemini LJ03 MBY has passed to Used … Tempo X1200 1309 (YJ09 EYO). The route branding on Volvo B7RLE/ Wright Eclipse Urban 1100-3 (PIL 9733/5, KIG 7305/6) … March, having been unused since arriving here in January 2012. It retains Stagecoach livery. Eleven 39-seat …

12th May 2021

… Dale on April 29. JOHN YOUNG Brand new MCV EvoRa-bodied Volvo B8RLE 21 (Y100 HOB) approaching Chesterfield from … to Fleet in Focus May 2018, Richard Eades (owner since 2012) retired March 2020 and sold company to operations … seven Optare Solo [one SlimLine, one SR], three Volvo B7RLE/Wright Eclipse Urban, two each Alexander Dennis Pointer …

12th May 2021

… Coaches SN57 DCZ, one of six Wright Eclipse Urban-bodied Volvo B7RLEs acquired from Lothian Buses, in Chester on … Birkenhead  SK07 DCO is another ex-Lothian Buses Volvo B7RLE/Wright Eclipse Urban B38F acquired from Ensign, … 213/24U have been acquired from Bus Vannin. They date from 2012 and will be re-registered. Bear Buses, Shepperton  …

By SANDY MACDONALD 12th May 2021

… venture for the Melville Hotels group. Jonckheere-bodied Volvo B12M GT03 BBB ( V31 BUS, GT03 BBB, 03 D 120291, GT03 … of a blue and green scheme for the NSPCC, again retaining 2012 fleet livery on the front. The latest vehicles reported … last year comprised Wright Eclipse Urban B42F-bodied Volvo B7RLE SN04 NHD ex-Lothian Country 113 in August; Caetano …

By SANDY MACDONALD 7th April 2021

… Festival Travel, Kirkliston Plaxton Elite-bodied Volvo B9R SJ15 GRD (HSK 643) was acquired by Photoflash, … Eclipse Gemini-bodied Volvo B7TL 32581 has reverted to 2012 fleet livery ex- Barbados overall advertisement. … DFs 47528, 47618/21-4;  Wright Eclipse Urban-bodied Volvo B7RLE 66946; Alexander Dennis Enviro200s 67049/78; and …

10th March 2021

… livery on C2 (A185 MNE), a Van Hool Alizée-bodied Volvo B10M new to Shearings in 1984. These colours also were … replaced it in 2008. This lasted until the autumn of 2012, when new Optare Versa hybrid 101 arrived with branding … 100 the following year. Wright Eclipse 2-bodied Volvo B7RLE 88 (DK09 ELH) in The Pops livery, the first of the new …

6th February 2021

… was 23 (MX62 ARF), an Alexander Dennis Enviro200 new in 2012 to Houston of Lockerbie and latterly 715 in the … Solos, 11 DAF or VDL SB200/Wright Commanders, eight Volvo B7RLE/Wright Eclipse Urban and a solitary DAF SB120 …

17th December 2020

… Bus hires 14 Enviro200s for schools capacity l Preston Bus Volvo B5LH hybrids join Cumfybus fleet  l  Go North West … Aintree Coachline, Maghull Ex-Lothian Buses Volvo B7RLE/Wright Eclipse Urban B38F SK07 CFP has been acquired … Volvo B9TL 36227 (BD12 TBU), part of a fleet built for the 2012 London Olympics. The red with purple flashes in the new …

By DAVID JENKINS 25th August 2020

… Trent Barton 720 (FJ58 KKO), a Wright Eclipse Urban-bodied Volvo B7RLE, on the Indigo service to Long Eaton. MIKE HADDON It is … in the city centre, was perhaps 20 years too soon. In 2012 it pioneered introduction of the a Workplace Parking …

18th June 2020

… Optares for Hulleys of Baslow Metroline takes 11 Volvo hybrids from Tower Transit Trustybus buys two Optare … livery are Wright StreetLite Max 3328 (FJ64 EUO) and Volvo B7RLE/Wright Eclipse Urban 3897 (KX11 RHO). Withdrawn are DAF … fleet and was new to Avon Buses on the Wirral peninsula in 2012. GARY SEAMARKS Hunter, Leeds Ex-Brighton & Hove Scania …

By ANDREW JAROSZ 19th March 2020

… director from Arthur’s death in 1980 until he died in 2012. Company remains family owned. Where does it operate?: … fleetnames. How many vehicles?: Twenty-eight coaches (two Volvo B7R/Plaxton Profile, seven Volvo B8R/Plaxton Leopard, … StreetLite Max 63266 and Wright Eclipse Urban-bodied Volvo B7RLE 69293 have lost their Bluebird livery with Royal Route …

19th December 2019

… & Hove 409 (BJ11 XHK), a Wright Eclipse Gemini 2-bodied Volvo B9TL, at Brighton station on route 6, which operates at … have largely been supplanted by Wright Eclipsebodied Volvo B7RLE and B8RLEs, plus a trio of Wright StreetLites. Fastrack … initial fleet of Wright-bodied Volvo B7RLEs dating from 2012/13 was replaced by Enviro200 MMCs in 2018. Eclipse is …

By BOB HIND 16th January 2020

… & Dorset 69395 (HY09 AZF), a Wright Eclipse Urban-bodied Volvo B7RLE, in Southampton where municipal buses were red. MARK … Crosville as a management trainee in 1968 and retiring in 2012 as managing director of Arriva Midlands. … RETRACING …