Today I went up into Holland.
I started off visiting Roosendal. Was suprised to find Veolia running buses, as I thought they pulled out entirely. After failing to get a day ticket for the trains, I decided to get a return to Utrecht.
To get there from Roosendal, I would have to change at Dordrecht. Having last visted here in 2009, I decided to go out to the bus station (which has been completed since my last visit). The majority of Buses running here are providied by Arriva, including some DAF SB200 / Wright Commanders and Scania Omnilinks. Also running around this time around were some Volvo 7700 Hybrids.
Now Utrecht was a good place, very busy bus station. Lots of the new model Mercedes Benz Citaro in rigid and bendy for. But however my main reason for visiting Utrecht was the Triplearcs. Watching these Van Hool newAGG300s snake around the bus station was very fascinating. Plus got photos of the old batch and the new batch.
After Utrecht, I decided to head back in the direction of Rotterdam (to start using the return part of my ticket), and I ended up alighting at Gouda, again local bus services were provided by Arriva, this time using VDL Citea vehicles. After here, I decided to buy a single fare to Den Haag (The Hauge).
At the Hauge, there isn't many bus services with most transport covered by the pretty extensive tramway. What buses they were belonged to HTM Buzz (suspect they've been taken over by QBuzz) and Veolia. Arriva also provided a QLiner service. HTM and Veolia mainly used MAN Lion's City, all of them being powered by CNG.
Onwards to Rotterdam. Again another place I visited in 2009. However in the time since my last visit, the construction works around Rotterdam Centraal have been completed and looks very impressive. Unfortunatley the transport scene is a lot duller. Non of the High Floor Trams were running past Centraal Station and of the buses I saw, all were Mercedes Benz Citaros (exactly the same model as used by GNE).
I decided to head to Zwijndrecht station to watch some trains pass along this busy stretch of line. Then after around 40 minutes, I headed back to Dodrecht, photoed a few more buses and headed back to Roosendal for my train back to Antwerp.
Tomorrow I'm off to the City of Brussels.
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