February 5th 2020: Fleet Ramblings

5/2/2020

Megabus/Joint Venture
Now in service at Cumbernauld (Stagecoach West Scotland) are Volvo B11RLE coaches 50412-19. They have displaced Volvo B13Rs 54130-37 from Scottish Citylink services..

Stagecoach West Scotland
Displaced Megabus/Joint Venture Volvo B13R coaches 54130-37 are all in the Reserve Fleet here pending repaint. Also in the Reserve Fleet for Repaint are Enviro 300s 27512 and 27514.
Optare Solo 47499 is earmarked for donation to the ‘Teen Challenge’ charity whilst another donation to charity from this fleet is MAN/Enviro 300 22861.
MAN/Enviro 300 22530 has been sold and similar 22585 has been scrapped.

Stagecoach East Midlands

The former Stagecoach East (Long Sutton) vehicles continue to attract a considerable amount of interest in this fleet, with all depots - except Lincoln and of course Long Sutton - currently having examples on their allocation.
Dylan Jones has been out and about to photograph these vehicles and we are pleased to present a selection of his images.
Dylan caught up with Skegness-allocated Trident 18416 in Horncastle whilst Worksop -allocated Enviro 400 19047 was pictured in Retford. Trident 18418 is allocated to Gainsborough and was pictured in the town’s bus station amongst several Plaxton President-bodied Tridents.
Trident 18338 is one of four former Long Sutton Tridents now allocated to Hull. The others are 18335, 18344 and 18347.
Although we don’t have a photo of it we understand that former Long Sutton Enviro 400 19017, which is now at Grimsby, has recently benefitted from a repaint.

Two other recently repainted Tridents in this fleet and photographed by Dylan are Lincoln-allocated ALX400-bodied 18122 and Plaxton President-bodied 18047. Both of these are devoid of the normal matt-black area below the front windscreen.

Stagecoach Merseyside & South Lancashire

We reported earlier this week on the return of Tridents from Stagecoach Manchester and their allocation to Gilmoss depot. Paul Gallagher sent us these images, which feature 18326, 18365 and 18372, in service in Liverpool on Monday 3rdFebruary 2020.