A contact of mine on Facebook has posted pictures of an Enviro400 MMC in the final stages of construction at Alexander Dennis' Scarborough factory in Cardiff Bus livery. This order follows on from the demonstrator (YY64 GWX) they had at the start of the year. Even without the operator branding I think that it looks extremely smart indeed and the livery suits the body design really well
I had a holiday in south Wales in July. On the Sunday I rode several Cardiff Bus vehicles, and a handful on the Tuesday too. Many have green seats, with a bit of orange padding on modern buses. Their main vehicle types are Scania-Olympus, Scania Omnicity bendibus, Scania-Solar/ Omnicity single-deck, Citaro, Enviro300, Enviro200 and Dart-Pointer. Of these, the Solars are evidently ex-dealer stock as they have different red seating.
Cardiff Bus are due ten long wheelbase Enviro400 MMCs numbered 301-310. They should be registered as follows:
301 - CN65 AAE
302 - CN65 AAF
303 - CN65 AAJ
304 - CN65 AAK
305 - CN65 AAO
306 - CN65 AAU
307 - CN65 AAV
308 - CN65 AAX
309 - CN65 AAY
310 - CN65 AAZ
Nice to see some more double deckers in the Cardiff Bus fleet
Good to see, even though the MD said in an interview in Buses mag there wouldn't be any more deckers!
SD.
(01/09/2015 21:56)Sprinterdriver Wrote: [ -> ]Good to see, even though the MD said in an interview in Buses mag there wouldn't be any more deckers!
SD.
Was in Cardiff yesterday noting that the bus station had been closed and demolished. I saw about five deckers but they were all on different routes.
With credit to another forum the first two of another batch of ten Citaros have arrived. They are to be numbered 121-130
The registrations of Cardiff Bus' new Citaros should be as follows:
121 - CN65 ABF
122 - CN65 ABK
123 - CN65 ABO
124 - CN65 ABU
125 - CN65 ABV
126 - CN65 ABX
127 - CN65 ABZ
128 - CN65 ACF
129 - CN65 ACJ
130 - CN65 ACO
With credit to another website SPDs 361-371 have all left the fleet
SPDs 372-374 and 377/8 have been repainted into an all-over green livery - unsure whether they're withdrawn or not though
379 has been repainted into the new Cardiff Bus livery