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Posts Tagged ‘Arriva North West & Wales’
 October 27th, 2011  buses7675
Since the last blog update there have been yet more contract changes resulting in further buses being hired in with some operators, due to the unexpected decision by Supertravel/Homes Hames Travel to end all of its stage services with immediate effect from 13/10/2011. Emergency contracts were let to various operators for the services previously operated Continue reading →
 Posted in DartSLF News  Tags: A2B Travel, ACE Travel, Arriva North West & Wales, Arriva NW&W, Avon Buses, Cumfybus, Eazibus, Hattons Travel, Home James Travel, HTL Buses, Merseytravel, Peoplesbus, Supertravel, TransDev Lancashire United, Warrington Coachways  2 Comments »
October 14th, 2011 H101GEV
As a slight change to the normal this week we have a guest blogger, forum member H101GEV, who has kindly written and taken photographs for this weeks blog about Speke’s new Geminis! A bit thank you to H101GEV for offering to do this, my usual blog post will return next week! – buses7675 Eight of Continue reading →
September 23rd, 2011 buses7675
Stagecoach Merseyside currently have a CNG (Compressed Natural Gas) powered MAN EcoCity demonstrator on loan, which has seen use on route 10A (Liverpool City Centre – St Helens). This bus is B39F with a low floor gangway right to the back of the bus with the very rear row and seats over the wheelarches each Continue reading →
Posted in DartSLF News Tags: Alexander ALX400, Arriva North West & Wales, Arriva NW&W, Arriva Speke, CNG, Dennis Trident 2, MAN, MAN EcoCity, Mercedes Citaro O.530G, Optare Solo, Peoplesbus, Stagecoach Merseyside, VDL DB3000, Wright Gemini 2DL No Comments »
August 22nd, 2011 buses7675
Quite a few buses in the Arriva North West & Wales fleet are likely to be withdrawn very soon or at reallocated to other work/depots than they are at present. The oldest bus that is reportedly due for withdrawal is Southport’s Open Top Atlantean 3980 GKA 449L (1449 in MTL numbers!) which some reports suggest Continue reading →
August 9th, 2011 buses7675
At least two more Mercedes Citaro O.530G articulated buses are now in service with Arriva Speke depot, those being 6006 BX04 MXC and 6033 BX04 NDG. These two are both in the new standard Arriva livery with an AB49D layout (no luggage racks like the dedicated route 501 vehicles), however at the moment they are Continue reading →
July 27th, 2011 buses7675
Over the weekend the Arriva depot in Skelmersdale finally closed with all services and buses reallocated to other Arriva depots, including those at Southport, Bootle and St Helens. Many buses had their legal lettering changed to Arriva Merseyside in advance of the closure as seen here on 4073 S243 JUA DAF DB250/Alexander ALX400, seen in Continue reading →
July 20th, 2011 buses7675
Futher to previous reports I have been able to take photographs of more of the buses on loan to Arriva from Dawsons Rentals. The most recent arrival is 7907 KV03 ZFJ an early TransBus Enviro300 which is at Green Lane depot. This features the original back and front panels (slightly different to the later ones, Continue reading →
July 12th, 2011 buses7675
From Monday 11th July 2011 large number of routes previously operated by Supertravel changed to different operators with very short notice. Those that remain with Supertravel are all transferred to the Home James Travel licence, following various changes at the company. Route 163 (Belle Vale – Halewood) is now operated by HTL Buses, along with Continue reading →
July 5th, 2011 buses7675
Arriva NW&W have at the moment received at least five buses on loan (reportedly from Dawsons) with possibly sixth to cover for VDL SB200/Wright Pulsars that have been sent on loan over the summer to Arriva Malta. The buses sent to Malta from Arriva NW&W are reportedly are 2990-3 MX59 JZF/G/H/J from St Helens and Continue reading →
June 21st, 2011 buses7675
I took my first trip up to Southport in a few years this week to sample the Park & Ride buses and also see what other buses were around to see! The current Southport Park & Ride service is operated by Arriva NW&W using two Alexander Dennis Enviro200Darts, 2143 CX08 DJO & 2144 CX08 DJU Continue reading →
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