Only on a Tuesday - 5
I mentioned in my photograph titled "Only on a Tuesday - 4" that Stagecoach in South Wales had recently bad farewell to 22782 and 22789, the remaining pair of 12.8m Alexander Dennis Enviro300-bodied MANs that retained MAN engines.
Here is 22789 in early August 2015 operating for Cwmbran depot on Tuesdays only Service X20 (Newport-Cwmbran-Pontypool-Abergavenny), setting down the afternoon market goers in Abergavenny Bus Station before taking up the 1330 return journey.
Only four of the original batch of 17 MANs delivered in 2009 remain in the South Wales fleet. These are Cummins-re-engined 22780, 22781, 22785 and 22791, which are based at Merthyr Tydfil depot and its Brecon outstation, primarily for Services 39B/39 (Brecon-Talgarth-Hay-on-Wye-Hereford). 22779, 22783, 22784, 22786, 22787, 22788, 22790 and 22792 are now in the Highland fleet, 22782 and 22789 recently transferred to the East Midland fleet, 22793 and 22794 are in the Bluebird fleet and 22795 was sold to Abba Scrap of Dowlais after receiving extensive fire damage in August 2013.
Only on a Tuesday - 5
I mentioned in my photograph titled "Only on a Tuesday - 4" that Stagecoach in South Wales had recently bad farewell to 22782 and 22789, the remaining pair of 12.8m Alexander Dennis Enviro300-bodied MANs that retained MAN engines.
Here is 22789 in early August 2015 operating for Cwmbran depot on Tuesdays only Service X20 (Newport-Cwmbran-Pontypool-Abergavenny), setting down the afternoon market goers in Abergavenny Bus Station before taking up the 1330 return journey.
Only four of the original batch of 17 MANs delivered in 2009 remain in the South Wales fleet. These are Cummins-re-engined 22780, 22781, 22785 and 22791, which are based at Merthyr Tydfil depot and its Brecon outstation, primarily for Services 39B/39 (Brecon-Talgarth-Hay-on-Wye-Hereford). 22779, 22783, 22784, 22786, 22787, 22788, 22790 and 22792 are now in the Highland fleet, 22782 and 22789 recently transferred to the East Midland fleet, 22793 and 22794 are in the Bluebird fleet and 22795 was sold to Abba Scrap of Dowlais after receiving extensive fire damage in August 2013.