RE: Yorkshire Bus Operations
First West Yorkshire
Due for delivery shortly are 28 Wright Streetdecks numbered 35638-65 - unlike the previous batches, these are destined for Bradford depot alongside a number of new Wright Streetlites as part of the introduction of a Clean Air Zone in Bradford.
These will introduce a new livery for the Bradford fleet - a two-tone Blue along similar lines to the Two-Tone Green used on 'Leeds City' fleet.
While Bradford gains new stock and a whole new-look livery, the fleet at Huddersfield and Halifax depots are also undergoing a minor brand refreshing - while not to the same level as Leeds and Bradford, the original-style Olympia livery is being replaced by the 'Olympia2' livery with coloured front adopted in other First fleets.
Huddersfield is seeing an expansion of the 'HD Connect' livery - first rolled out back in 2018 on services 370/371/372 (Lindley to Huddersfield then either Rawthorpe, Dalton or Almondbury).
First West Yorkshire 69559 (BV13 YZZ) by
Tony Kuy, on Flickr
Halifax meanwhile is gaining a similar variation called 'HX Connect' with a darker shade of blue in use. So far, 6 B7RLEs, 2 B9TLs and the former Halifax heritage livered B7TL have been repainted.
First West Yorkshire 37690 (YJ09 OAD) by
Tony Kuy, on Flickr
Transdev
Purchased from Nottingham City Transport are 15 Enviro200s and an undisclosed number of Scania N230UD/Omnidekkas. So far confirmed to have made the move northwards are E200s 366/7/8/79 (YX13 AEG/J/K, BNY) and 383/4 (YX63 LHY/Z). 10 examples are destined for use in the Rosso-branded fleet (366/7/8/79 make up 4 of these 10) with the remaining 5 (including 383/4) will be joining the Team Pennine fleet.