Bus-Related Outings & Reviews

[Metroline1511]

RE: Bus-Related Outings & Reviews
Last Saturday, December 27th, was Wigan & east Liverpool. All trains were Northern and all buses Arriva, as follows:-

Walk Heaton Chapel
Train Wigan Wallgate - class 150/1
385 Skelmersdale - E40D 4579
311 Orrell Park - Pulsar 2922
61 Childwall - Pulsar 3016
81a Liverpool Airport - Volvo B7TL-ALX400 4117
82 Halton Lea - Cadet 2546
110 Warrington - Cadet 2552
360 Wigan - Pulsar 2973
Trains Heaton Chapel via Manchester Piccadilly - class 142 then 323

I did not duplicate moquette where I rode equivalent buses again. Significantly, I rode Manchester route 81a on my Christmas bash in 2013! It was poignant to see Liverpool at Christmas 2014, being 50 years since the Beatles were Christmas no 1 with I Feel Fine.

Then today, January 3rd, Hull & Cottingham. I reached Hull via Grimsby yesterday and returned home via Manchester. Anyway, all my buses in Hull today were East Yorkshire, as follows:-

57 Hessle - E400H 905
X80 Cottingham Burton Road - Primo 496
115 Cottingham Green - Enviro200 359
64 Hull - Volvo B7TL-President 674 - long example, possibly imported from Finglands
56 Bilton Asda - Volvo B9TL-Enviro400 722
57 Hull - Volvo B9TL-Gemini 746
61 Cottingham Green - Volvo B7BLE-MCV 382
115 Hull - Volvo B7TL-President 650 ex-Go-Ahead London PVL184

These included my first Volvo B9TL-Enviro400 outside of Dublin Bus, and my first Volvo-MCV anywhere! I gather it was ex-dealer stock as it had yellow poles and a mainly blue moquette distinct from EYMS.