North East Buses

(22 Mar 2016, 8:50 pm)Kuyoyo wrote [ -> ]Sad day for all - major change to the Derbyshire Wayfarer tickets from the Derbyshire County Council Transport page

And it seems it has now been sorted - High Peak will once again be accepting the Derbyshire Wayfarer from the end of the month
http://www.highpeakbuses.com/news/derbys...tober-2017

(04 Oct 2017, 7:13 pm)S813 FVK wrote [ -> ]The final batch of E200MMCs of this round of orders for TrentBarton have now started to be delivered. They are the shorter variant for the allestree routes replacing the Optare Solo SRs currently allocated: https://flic.kr/p/Y7uRSi

Launched today in Derby
YX67VGC Trent Barton Allestree 166 by Matt's Transport Photography, on Flickr

Where the Solos currently used on the Allestree are going is currently unknown - but considering the major of the former 'Nines' Solos are still awaiting re-allocation some 10 months after the E200MMCs entered service on there, I wouldn't expect 492-7 to turn up somewhere quickly.

(14 Oct 2017, 8:07 am)Kuyoyo wrote [ -> ]503 has now been refurbished and repainted into a new 'Spondon Flyer' livery (screenshotted photos below taken from the 'Fans of the Wellglade Group' Facebook Group and are @ Miles Williams)

All three - 501-3 - are now done and have been in service on Spondon Flyer for the last two weeks

Trent Barton - Spondon Flyer - 503 by Daniel Mullins, on Flickr

Rumours are now about that the former Spondon Flyer Versas will be moving onto the 'My15' alongside the current examples with talk of the long-mentioned extension of the route to East Midlands Airport (originally planned when the B7RLE were delivered in 2009 - they, indeed, had blinds for both the Airport and Heanor when delivered).

(10 Nov 2017, 11:53 am)Kuyoyo wrote [ -> ]Rumours are now about that the former Spondon Flyer Versas will be moving onto the 'My15' alongside the current examples with talk of the long-mentioned extension of the route to East Midlands Airport (originally planned when the B7RLE were delivered in 2009 - they, indeed, had blinds for both the Airport and Heanor when delivered).

The former Spondon Flyer Versas have now been refurbished for the 'my15' ahead of two improvements in the coming months. 806 shows off the revamped version of the livery (photo @ Guy). Pending the first improvement, which sees the service increased from every 20 minutes to every 15 minutes, the quartet will allow the original 'My15' Versas to be refurbished. 801 (YJ11 ENC) will become the first Versa to carry one of the company's spare liveries, with 802-5 remaining branded for the service. Later in the year, it will be extended hourly to East Midlands Airport.

(15 Oct 2017, 5:50 pm)Kuyoyo wrote [ -> ]Where the Solos currently used on the Allestree are going is currently unknown - but considering the major of the former 'Nines' Solos are still awaiting re-allocation some 10 months after the E200MMCs entered service on there, I wouldn't expect 492-7 to turn up somewhere quickly.

493 and 494 have made their way onto the Harlequin: https://flic.kr/p/21WaqcT

Does anyone know where i can find a fleet list for Trent Barton?

Thanks

Nottingham City Transport

Following on from the 30 delivered last year, the remaining 23 of the initial 53 Scania N280UD Bio-Gas buses are in the process of delivery.

So far, delivered are:
Spare 431-3 (YN18 SVA/C/D)
Sky Blue Line 45 branded 434-41
Nottingham City Transport YN18 SVV by gbbusandcoach, on Flickr

The remaining examples are due to be used on Orange Line 36, cascading the current E400-bodied Scania N230UD to Orange Line 35. The current Sky Blue Omnidekkas are to be used on the Lime Line 56/57/59 replacing older Omnidekkas and Omnicitys.

Stagecoach

The 11 new Enviro400MMCs for Mansfield for 'Pronto' (Nottingham to Mansfield and Chesterfield) entered service on Wednesday, following a launch in Nottingham on Tuesday.

Stagecoach in Mansfield - Pronto - 10975 by Daniel Mullins, on Flickr

Not mentioned elsewhere (i.e. in the main order thread) is the change of seating in this year's order - having adopted the new Alexander Dennis Smart seating for this year's batch of E400s and E200s
Stagecoach East Midlands 10971 interior by Nathan Parker, on Flickr

They have displaced the bulk of Mansfield's older deckers - Trident/ALX400 17709/38/9 and President 18028/39/43 - to reserve, with 18039/43 going to Hull and the rest remaining at Mansfield. Also due to be displaced are E300 27762-5/81 - which are heading for Grimsby to release E200s to Scunthorpe to see off Darts.

Volvo B7RLEs 726 and 727 (ex-Trent Barton and Mango liveried respectively) have both been refurbished, repainted and branded for Rapid One: https://flic.kr/p/27EayjA

They replace Optare Versas 850 and 851 which will be rebranded for the rainbow one service when the increased frequency comes into effect on Sunday 22nd July.

In unrelated news, former 'my15' branded Optare Versa 801 has been repainted into the standard fleet livery: https://flic.kr/p/27iLkW6

Trent Barton

‘Skylink Express’ is revised from this coming Sunday - it will now be ‘Skylink Clifton’ using 3 Scania L94UBs formerly used on ‘Skylink Nottingham’ to replace the unreliable Scania/Irizar i4s.

Former ‘i4’ Scanias 613/7/9/67 and ‘Skylink’ 631 are in the process of transferring to TM Travel - 619 and 631 are already at Halfway.

(17 Jul 2018, 1:39 pm)Kuyoyo wrote [ -> ]Trent Barton

‘Skylink Express’ is revised from this coming Sunday - it will now be ‘Skylink Clifton’ using 3 Scania L94UBs formerly used on ‘Skylink Nottingham’ to replace the unreliable Scania/Irizar i4s.

Solars are 625, 662 and 663

Certainly not one of the nicest looking liveries. Perhaps they could have just left the skylink express livery as it was, instead of combining it with the Nottingham livery.

Trent Barton

The first Indigo E200MMC is on show at Long Eaton today - YY18TPO which will be 207. Seemingly confirming the Indigo batch (which are the 11.5m Cummins 4 cylinder engine version) are 201-15. The two ‘Mango’ liveried spares on order are said to be the same model so in theory should be 216/7. The 13 ‘i4’ examples are the 11.7m six cylinder model (as per the ‘Mickleover’, ‘Mainline’ and ‘Skylink’ examples).

(02 Aug 2018, 12:28 pm)Kuyoyo wrote [ -> ]Trent Barton

The first Indigo E200MMC is on show at Long Eaton today - YY18TPO which will be 207. Seemingly confirming the Indigo batch (which are the 11.5m Cummins 4 cylinder engine version) are 201-15. The two ‘Mango’ liveried spares on order are said to be the same model so in theory should be 216/7. The 13 ‘i4’ examples are the 11.7m six cylinder model (as per the ‘Mickleover’, ‘Mainline’ and ‘Skylink’ examples).

https://www.flickr.com/photos/guy_arab_u...85/in/feed

Trent Barton

Short E200MMCs 151-69 (151-64 on 'The Nines', 165-9 on 'The Allestree') are in the process of being renumbered 251-69.

Trent Barton

The first of the 2018 order of E200MMCs entered service yesterday in the form of ‘Mango’ spare 216 working on ‘Skylink Clifton’. The ‘indigo’ examples are entering service from today - the entire fleet was moved from Langley Mill to Mavers Street last night one by one swapping for one of the present fleet of Volvo B7RLEs.

Stagecoach

As part of the ongoing cascades as a result of the entry into service of the 'Pronto' E400MMCs, E300s 27762-5/81 have transferred to Grimsby depot.

As a result, 5 of Grimsby's former Chester Park & Ride B7RLEs are being repainted into Interconnect livery for use on services 50/51 - so far treated as 21270/2 (DK09 DYE/C).
21270 (DK09GYE) by Sam Boothby, on Flickr

They replace Scania E400s 15175-9, which are in the process of repaint at various locations within the East Midlands division as well as at Chesterfield depot, to Worksop where they will be Worksop's allocation to service 77 (Worksop to Chesterfield) from September once the route is revised to avoid low bridges in one of the villages.

Does anyone have an up to date fleet list for Nottingham City Transport? Googling only finds hopelessly out-of-date versions anbd/or numerically the first 30 or so buses - which have probably now be sold.

In particular, I'm after registration details of the E400Citys (incl. any known to be on order) and any other new deliveries since November 2016 - noting 431-3 are reported "up thread". Note, I do not subscribe to "TwitFaceAgram".

tia

(02 Sep 2018, 1:47 pm)Tamesider wrote [ -> ]Does anyone have an up to date fleet list for Nottingham City Transport? Googling only finds hopelessly out-of-date versions anbd/or numerically the first 30 or so buses - which have probably now be sold.

In particular, I'm after registration details of the E400Citys (incl. any known to be on order) and any other new deliveries since November 2016 - noting 431-3 are reported "up thread". Note, I do not subscribe to "TwitFaceAgram".

tia

As you were (partly). When looking for '68 regs (anywhere), I remembered BLOTW, so after some surfing found 401-453 scattered across 2017/8. I assume 453 is the last one of the order and no other new buses have been bought in the last 22 months.

Trent Barton's Red Arrow service goes '24/6' from today, extending the 24 hour service from Friday and Saturday nights only. 
https://trentbarton.co.uk/news-and-media...darrow2018

Sunday nights won't see a 24 hour service, with last journeys being 22:45 from Derby and 23:30 from Nottingham.

BLOTW report about 13 more E200Ms for Trent Barton with registrations in the YX68 ULx range. Does anyone know he fleet numbers or which number series will be used ie following on from 128 or 217, possibly?

ta

(12 Sep 2018, 7:12 pm)Tamesider wrote [ -> ]BLOTW report about 13 more E200Ms for Trent Barton with registrations in the YX68 ULx range. Does anyone know he fleet numbers or which number series will be used ie following on from 128 or 217, possibly?

ta

They should just follow on from the indigo batch. 

They're for the i4 service replacing the Tempo SRs. I believe one (unbranded bar the light up logo on the front) was used as part of a Careers Roadshow held by ADL in Manchester.

(12 Sep 2018, 7:34 pm)S813 FVK wrote [ -> ]They should just follow on from the indigo batch. 

They're for the i4 service replacing the Tempo SRs. I believe one (unbranded bar the light up logo on the front) was used as part of a Careers Roadshow held by ADL in Manchester.

So, 218-230 then - or are there more than 13 due?

The ‘i4’ E200s should be 129 onwards, as they have the six cylinder engine rather than the 4 cylinder version found in 201-7/51-69.

Calverton Connection bus fire:
https://www.facebook.com/bbceastmids/vid...044113327/

(12 Sep 2018, 10:25 pm)Kuyoyo wrote [ -> ]The ‘i4’ E200s should be 129 onwards, as they have the six cylinder engine rather than the 4 cylinder version found in 201-7/51-69.

Have these actually been rumbered yet? BLOTW originally quoted 129-141, then due to a registration mix up, they were quoted as 128-140 - obviously wrong, as there is already a "128" - but now they are showing as 218-230.

(07 Oct 2018, 1:45 pm)Tamesider wrote [ -> ]Have these actually been rumbered yet? BLOTW originally quoted 129-141, then due to a registration mix up, they were quoted as 128-140 - obviously wrong, as there is already a "128" - but now they are showing as 218-230.

The first one is currently being used for familiarisation - that’s 129 (YX68 ULA). It’s the first to feature the new ‘Smart Mirrors’ - cameras in place of wingmirrors.

(07 Oct 2018, 6:41 pm)Kuyoyo wrote [ -> ]The first one is currently being used for familiarisation - that’s 129 (YX68 ULA). It’s the first to feature the new ‘Smart Mirrors’ - cameras in place of wingmirrors.

Another bit of technology waiting to go wrong!

TrentBarton 129 in Nottingham 6.10.18 (look no mirrors!) by timothyr673, on Flickr

Will be interesting to see whether or not it actually makes driving easier. The rest of the batch have regular wingmirrors:

141  YX68 ULO, 138  YX68 ULK by JE1791 photos, on Flickr

(07 Oct 2018, 6:41 pm)Kuyoyo wrote [ -> ]The first one is currently being used for familiarisation - that’s 129 (YX68 ULA). It’s the first to feature the new ‘Smart Mirrors’ - cameras in place of wingmirrors.

So the first version was correct after all!

Thanks

(07 Oct 2018, 6:41 pm)Kuyoyo wrote [ -> ]The first one is currently being used for familiarisation - that’s 129 (YX68 ULA). It’s the first to feature the new ‘Smart Mirrors’ - cameras in place of wingmirrors.

These ‘mirrors’ look like an answer to a question never asked.

(07 Oct 2018, 7:00 pm)S813 FVK wrote [ -> ]Another bit of technology waiting to go wrong!

Will be interesting to see whether or not it actually makes driving easily. The rest of the batch have regular wingmirrors:

I don't think I'd feel overly comfortable with it, but I suppose you never know until you try it. It's quite common on trams etc, so maybe it can be successful on buses too?

Always one to embrace new technology, but like you I think I'm pretty sceptical about this one. If the camera goes off, that bus is suddenly deemed unfit for service, and presumably has to wait up to a couple of days for the CCTV contractor to come out and repair the fault. If a driver whacks the wing mirror into a bus stop, into another bus etc, then again, that's another bus off the road. A 'normal' mirror presumably much more easy for a bus operator to get their hands on, if they don't already keep a sufficient number of them in stock.