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Posts Tagged ‘HTL Buses’
 January 2nd, 2012  buses7675
2011 was quite an important year for bus services on Merseyside, with many new deliveries to various operators, many withdrawals of older buses, the departure of one of the local operators and as already noted the many many rent-a-buses and demonstrators used. I shall try to summarise the major events of 2011 below! The first Continue reading →
December 30th, 2011 buses7675
This is the first blog update for a while, but don’t worry all is well I’ve just been busy lately but as the final blog update of the year a little review of 2011 seemed quite apt! This year has certainly been a year with lots and lots of loan buses used on Merseyside, some Continue reading →
 Posted in DartSLF News  Tags: A2B Travel, Alexander Dennis, Arriva NW&W, Dawsons Rentals, Demonstrators, Eazibus, HTL Buses, Loan Buses, Optare, Peoplesbus, Rental Buses, Wrightbus  1 Comment »
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 9th, 2011 buses7675
More Merseytravel route contracts have changed between operators today, amongst the changes inthe Liverpool area being Sunday AM route 161 (Liverpool – Rainhill) moving to ACE Travel from Halton Transport, Sunday 168 (Aigburth – Bootle) moving to ACE Travel from Arriva (Peoplesbus still operate alternate Sunday diagrams as before) and routes 173/4 (Belle Vale – Continue reading →
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Quite a few buses in the Arriva North West & Wales fleet are likely to be withdrawn very soon or at reallocated to other work/depots than they are at present.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 →
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 18th, 2011 buses7675
Peoplesbus began operating routes 173 (Belle Vale – Sefton Park) & 174 (Belle Vale – Penny Lane/Allerton Library) today after a one week gap, replacing Supertravel who stopped running it last Sunday. Peoplesbus have 4 Dart MPDs on loan from Dawsons Rentals to operate the route, those being YT51 EAA, KU52 RXF, KU52 RXG & 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 →
June 7th, 2011 buses7675
This week marked the start of Arriva NW&W using Mercedes Citaro O.530G articulated buses on route 501 (Liverpool South Parkway – Liverpool John Lennon Airport). Two of these are now in overall dark blue and branded for route 501, those being 6005 BX04 MXB (ex Arriva London MA5) & 6014 BX04 MXM (ex Arriva London Continue reading →
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