Kinchbus 733
Either I've just been lucky, or post-Solar Kinch 9s stray from using the regular branded vehicles (which are Citaros now) more than before. If that is the case, then maybe it'll help be get a few more of the Kinch spare/non-route-branded fleet.
One vehicle that falls into that category is 733, a B7RLE Wright Eclipse that was transferred over from TrentBarton in 2020. It's the first time I've seen one of the Kinch Eclipses, and aside from that one windscreen wiper it looks very smart with yellow and blue inside and out. The interior gets a special mention because prior to that, it was a Cotgrave Connection bus (sorry, I of course mean a 'The Cotgrave' bus...) and had a sky blue interior matching its livery, but it's been fully changed to Kinchbus house colours.
I would have a moan at TrentBarton for cascading Eclipses to Kinch when they don't have enough serviceable buses to keep their own routes going, but as this one became a Kinch fleet member a few years back I'll let them off this one. Also, I missed catching a train taking a picture of this bus - not intentionally, mind you; seeing some 09 plate Eclipse isn't worth an extra hour and a half in the cold.
Arkwright Street, Nottingham, 5.3.23
Kinchbus 733
Either I've just been lucky, or post-Solar Kinch 9s stray from using the regular branded vehicles (which are Citaros now) more than before. If that is the case, then maybe it'll help be get a few more of the Kinch spare/non-route-branded fleet.
One vehicle that falls into that category is 733, a B7RLE Wright Eclipse that was transferred over from TrentBarton in 2020. It's the first time I've seen one of the Kinch Eclipses, and aside from that one windscreen wiper it looks very smart with yellow and blue inside and out. The interior gets a special mention because prior to that, it was a Cotgrave Connection bus (sorry, I of course mean a 'The Cotgrave' bus...) and had a sky blue interior matching its livery, but it's been fully changed to Kinchbus house colours.
I would have a moan at TrentBarton for cascading Eclipses to Kinch when they don't have enough serviceable buses to keep their own routes going, but as this one became a Kinch fleet member a few years back I'll let them off this one. Also, I missed catching a train taking a picture of this bus - not intentionally, mind you; seeing some 09 plate Eclipse isn't worth an extra hour and a half in the cold.
Arkwright Street, Nottingham, 5.3.23