Crimson Route 20 Between Norwich and Thetford

Today, we have been launching our new route 20 that will be operating between Norwich and Thetford from our Norwich depot. Route 20 will be the first Crimson route in the East with another due to be launched in the coming months. For route 20, we have brought five brand new Crimson specification Enviro200s with one of these as a spare.

3260 AU64 RLO - Crimson 20 livery
3261 AU64 RLP - Crimson 20 livery
3262 AU64 RLR - Crimson 20 livery
3263 AU64 RLS - Crimson 20 livery
3264 AU64 RLT - Crimson Norfolk livery

These will enter service on Monday with another three standard specification Enviro200s for Norwich route 35.

More Deckers For Luton

Many complaints have been passed through our Luton depot about a poor service being provided on the 823 service and the lack of seats on the buses which operate the service. To rectify this we are upgrading service 823 to double deck operation. So far, Volvo Olympian 5744 N36 JPP and Optare Spectra 5921 YG02 FWD will be helping out on the service with two more double deckers due shortly.

Latest Fleet News

Four new arrivals to the Braham Buses Group fleet are four ex-Stagecoach London ALX400 bodied Tridents. They are 5624-7 LX04 FXV/W, FYA/B with 5624-6 being based at Luton depot and 5627 being based at Norwich depot. 5627 also carries free Wi-Fi so that it can see use on Norwich Park & Ride services.

At our Devises depot, Optare Solo 2140 Y875 PWT has been taken out of service and withdrawn.

 

At our Norwich depot, Enviro400 5676 SN58 CGV has been allocated to Norwich's Sprowston Park & Ride service. This is due to 5692 AU14 DLY having been sent for refurbishment and repaint into our new 'crimson' livery. 5676 is not a permanent replacement.

At our Luton depot, the latest vehicle to arrive from repaint is inter200 3123 OY64 GDN which has also been given route branding for 'The 51'.

Crimson route X60 launch

Today, we have been launching route X60 in Aylesbury's Kingsbury Square and we will be there until 3pm this afternoon. Tomorrow, we will be doing the same again at Buckingham Bus Station, however we will be without a bus.

Due to this we have found it fitting to upload pictures of the X60 buses onto out blog. All of the allocated Enviro200s have 38 seats and are based at our Aylesbury depot. They are:

3256 OU64 DFX - Crimson Aylesbury Vale
3257 OU64 DFY - Crimson X60
3258 OU64 DGA - Crimson X60
3259 OU64 DGB - Crimson X60

They will all enter service on the 3rd November with four other standard Enviro200s at Aylesbury. Crimson route X60 will also begin on the 3rd November.

Luton BRAHAM

Today BRAHAM Luton's Scania Omnicitys have returned from repaint into the BRAHAM corporate colours they are 3276/7/8/9/80/1 - FD02 SDX/Y/EY/YS03 SHN/P/YN54 AHL.

 

 

 

As I have made the nets here, I've decided to attach an up-to-date fleetlist of luton to keep you all updated. Some arrivals at the depot are ex- London ALX400 bodied Dennis Tridents. They're all spare buses which are due to stand in from time to time on routes 61/X61 and 99.

As you can see Luke renumbered the fleet for us into his new fleet numbering system. 

I will post nets of the ALX400s later and hopefully the Citaros at the same time.

Charlie

Luton Depot Manager

New Website

Only minutes ago our brand new BRAHAM website was launched! It runs smoother than the old one and is more up-to-date. We have yet to add Thetford coach services to the site. Most of the nets are on the nets page but some are still uploading. The site has been built with Wix, a proffesional website building company. The site has been made absolutely free and was launched at approximately 17:51.The website also includes service updates, so if you're travelling you might need to check for any changes to your route. You may have also noticed that the BLOG has now got a new red background by request from Luke.

Brand New Arrivals At Norwich

Over the course of the past three days, Norwich depot have received no more than eight brand new ADL Enviro200s with 38 seats each. Theses will be used on both routes 20 and 35 once the service changes from the 2nd November come into place. Below is the allocation of the new buses:

3260 AU64 RLO - Crimson 20 livery
3261 AU64 RLP - Crimson 20 livery
3262 AU64 RLR - Crimson 20 livery
3263 AU64 RLS - Crimson 20 livery
3264 AU64 RLT - Crimson Norfolk livery
3265 AU64 RLU - BRAHAM livery
3266 AU64 RLV - BRAHAM livery
3267 AU64 RLX - BRAHAM livery

3260-3 will be allocated new route 20 (Norwich to Thetford)
3264 will be a spare bus to the Crimson specification
3265-7 will be allocated to route 35

We'll show you full pictures of the new buses when they enter service on the 2nd November.

Service changes in Norfolk

Route 10 (Norwich - Acle - Gt Yarmouth - Lowestoft)

From the 2nd November, BRAHAM route 10 (Norwich - Acle - Gt Yarmouth - Lowestoft) will begin operating by a new improved timetable. The service will continue to operate every 20 minutes but will now serve a stop near Pleasurewood Hills. The will also be additional early morning services along the route.

The services Peak Vehicle Requirement (PVR) will be boosted up to nine buses. Of these Better Bus will continue to operate four workings with BRAHAM operating the other five. For this we have taken Enviro400 5692 AU14 DLY off of Norwich Park & Ride work and it has been sent for repaint into our new 'crimson' livery. More information about 'crimson' coming soon...

Enviro400 5692 AU14 DLY will be covered on Norwich's Sprowston Park & Ride service by one of the spare Enviro400s until a permanent replacement is sourced.

Route 20 (Norwich - Attleborough - Thetford)

Route 20 is a new service that will begin on the 2nd November. It will operate every 30 minutes between Norwich and Thetford and will be part of our new 'crimson' branded services. It will be operated using brand new Enviro200s.

Route 35 (Thorpe End - Norwich - Eaton)

From the 2nd November, route 35 will be operating with brand new Enviro200s. There will minor adjustments to the services timetable to make it more reliable.

BRAHAM to take on Aylesbury route 110

From the 2nd November, BRAHAM will be taking over the operation of route 110 between Aylesbury and Worminghall via Thame from Arriva the Shires. There will be no changes to the current timetable operated by Arriva the Shires. The main workings on the route will be operated by 5653 SN58 CFO which is soon to be transferred into Aylesbury from Norwich. The two school workings on the route will be operated by another available double decker.

Fleet Renumbering

The whole groups fleet numbering system has had to be adapted due to the vast expansion of the group. The new fleet numbers can be seen below:

Old fleet numbers 100 to 147 have become 2100 to 2147
Old fleet numbers 200 to 377 have become 3200 to 3377
Old fleet numbers 600 to 758 have become 5600 to 5758
Old fleet numbers 801 to 868 have become 9801 to 9868
Old fleet numbers 901 and 901 have become 6901 and 6902

The new fleet numbers may not appear on the buses straight away but they will be done as soon as possible.

The YourBuses of Luton fleet is still awaiting to be renumbered into the Braham Buses Group series.

Braham Buses Group Welcomes YourBuses of Luton

YourBuses of Luton has been welcomed into the Braham Buses Group over the past few days with the buy out of the business. All of YourBuses of Luton's routes and buses will remain the same until further notice to allow for us to make the needed changes to the fleet and renumber them all into our fleet numbering sequence. The light blue livery will also be remaining the same for the time being.

There is currently no planned changes for routes 61/X61 which was operated in partnership with YourBuses of Luton. We are planning on making operational changes to this route in the coming months.