Whole Fleet Update

Aylesbury

Loaned 273-5 YN03 UWF-H and 622/3 T672/3 KPU will return to there respective depots on the 17th August.

Plaxton Presidents 757/8 X509, 589 EGK are expected at Aylesbury shortly after the 18th August for school service 650.

Two brand new Alexander Dennis Enviro200s with 29 seats are on order ready for the take over of route 25A (Oxford - Bicester). These are expected during November this year.

Four brand new Alexander Dennis Enviro200s with 37 seats are on order for new route X60 (Aylesbury - Buckingham - Milton Keynes). These will arrive during October this year.

Four brand new Alexander Dennis Enviro200s with 37 seats are on order for route 321 (Aylesbury - High Wycombe). These are expected at the same time as the batch for new route X60.

Devises

The whole fleet at Devises will be given fleet numbers shortly as they were part of the take over of Wiltshire Buses.

Great Yarmouth

Six brand new Alexander Dennis Enviro400s are expected to arrive at Great Yarmouth in the next few weeks. These will take over from the Plaxton Presidents on route 10 (Norwich - Acle - Great Yarmouth - Lowestoft).

751-6 LK03 CGF/G/V, GFV/X, GJY are expected to transfer to Norwich depot once the brand new Enviro400s arrive and will operate a new route in the city.

Norwich

622/3 T672/3 KPU are expected to come back to Norwich on the 17th August.

Four brand new Alexander Dennis Enviro200s with 37 seats are on order for route 35 (Thorpe End - Norwich - Eaton). These are expected to arrive during November to replace the current single deckers on the route.

751-6 LK03 CGF/G/V, GFV/X, GJY are expected to arrive here during September to operate a brand new route in and around the city.

Salisbury

The Salisbury Park & Ride fleet is expected to be repainted into a newer version of Park & Ride livery as the contract has been renewed.

The whole fleet at Salisbury will be given fleet numbers shortly as they were part of the take over of Wiltshire Buses.

Southampton

We are hoping to launch new routes here shortly but there are currently no expected transfers or new vehicles.

Thetford

273-5 YN03 UWF-H are expected to come back to Thetford on the 17th August.

Enviro400s 673/4 SN58 CGK/O are expected to enter service on the 18th August with Plaxton Presidents 757/8 X509, 589 EGK to be withdrawn and to transfer to Aylesbury.

School Service for Aylesbury Depot

In September, when the new academic year starts, we will be taking over School Service 650 between Cottesloe School in Wing and Aylesbury. As you may be able to guess route 650 will be operated from our Aylesbury depot and the route will require four double decker buses. We will be transferring the two Plaxton Presidents (757 and 758) at Thetford into Aylesbury shortly. These will operate the route with three Volvo Olympians we have brought from Ensign Bus. They are 741-3 R267/9, 270 LGH and are ex-Carousel Buses.

741 R267 LGH

742 R269 LGH

743 R270 LGH

We'll update you when 757 and 758 arrive at the Aylesbury depot.

Changes to Aylesbury route 61/X61

Due to the closure of Blagg Travel earlier this week, TravelAylesbury will be operating all workings on routes 61 and X61 until Monday the 18th August when Central Beds Motor Services will be taking over the old Blagg Travel workings.

This means that the Aylesbury depot will need four extra buses. For this we have drafted in 273-5 YN03 UWF-H from our reserve fleet and 622-3 T672-3 KPU from our Norwich depot. These will all return to the original depots on Sunday 17th.

273 YN03 UWF

274 YN03 UWG

275 YN03 UWH

622 T672 KPU

623 T673 KPU

Wiltshire Buses join Braham Buses Group

Wiltshire Buses joined the Braham Buses Group just over a week ago when it was brought from the administrators who were brought in when Hatts Travel Group collapsed. From the Hatts Travel Group we only brought the Wiltshire Buses business. All service will be operating as usual and there will be no chances to any members of staff.

This is a big risk for Braham Buses Group to take as the future of Wiltshire Buses may and will be uncertain for the next few months. We will be doing all that we can to make sure that Wiltshire Buses will be able to operate for many more years to come.

We will be launching a new livery to make the fleet to more modern and act the part. With the Salisbury Park & Ride contract having been renewed we will soon be bringing a new livery to its fleet of Enviro200s too.

Coach Services Repaints Complete

The repainting of the Coaches Services of Thetford is now complete after months of repainting the whole fleet since the take over of the company. The rest of the repainted fleet can be seen below:

123 SF07 KCE

 

 124 MX09 AOT

 

125 MX09 AOS

 

127 MW52 PYV

Staff Transport 128 MW52 PYU

 

235 CS12 BUS

 

236 BJ60 BYX

 

237 YN57 FZL

 

 

271 YN03 UWM

 

 

274 YN03 UWG and 275 YN03 UWH have now been taken out off service and are in storage at the Thetford depot.

 

ADL Enviro400s 673 SN58 CGK and 674 SN58 CGO are still not in service at Thetford as they are still being used for driver training in there old Norwich Park & Ride liveries with branding removed. 

New Southampton Routes

As of tomorrow we will begin operation of new routes 5A (Southampton - Lords Hill North) and 13 (Southampton - Sholing). Each route will operate at a frequency of every 30 minutes and will be operated by one of the spare Streetlite DFs each.

This means two more spare buses will be needed to take there place in Southampton. Plaxton Centros 321 YJ07 JSU and 322 YJ07 JSV have been repainted into Black & Gold livery and transferred to Southampton from storage at Thetford.

Tesco Advertising

We have struck a deal with supermarket chain, Tesco, to advertise there 'Clubcard Fuel Save' promotion on the rear of some of our buses. Tesco have asked us to only display these adverts on single decker buses and one bus has been chosen to gain the adverts from each depot.

At Norwich, 107 AU63 FLO has been chosen:

At Aylesbury, 204 YK08 ESG has been chosen:

At Southampton, 217 PX12 COJ has been chosen:

At Thetford, 233 YX14 RXJ has been chosen:

At Great Yarmouth, 302 YJ60 KAO has been chosen:

These advertisements will stay on these buses until the end of July.