Making Hay while the sun shines - 2
Six elegant Wright Renown-bodied Volvo B10BLEs that Stagecoach acquired with First's Wigan operations in December 2012 (21174, 21176, 21178, 21179, 21180 and 21187) made their way to the South Wales fleet the following Spring. Four were allocated to Merthyr Tydfil depot from Summer 2013 for use at Brecon outstation as replacements for Alexander PS-bodied Volvo B10Ms 20385, 20387, 20388 and 20389 on Services 39B/39 (Brecon-Talgarth-Hay-on-Wye-Hereford).
Their tenure was sadly only brief and they were replaced on the service in January 2015 by four of the then remaining 12.8m Alexander Dennis Enviro300-bodied MANs reconfigured with Cummins units.
21174, 21176, 21178 and 21179 were sold for scrap in Autumn 2015, 21180 was donated to a college in Wolverhampton, whilst 21187 was purchased by Newtons of Crumlin.
My shot from September 2013 shows 21178 on the A470 just south of Felinfach when Brecon bound. The service is now part of the TrawsCymru network and numbered T14, and is in the hands of the 12 MCV eVoRa-bodied Volvo B8RLEs (21351-62) delivered in 2019.
Making Hay while the sun shines - 2
Six elegant Wright Renown-bodied Volvo B10BLEs that Stagecoach acquired with First's Wigan operations in December 2012 (21174, 21176, 21178, 21179, 21180 and 21187) made their way to the South Wales fleet the following Spring. Four were allocated to Merthyr Tydfil depot from Summer 2013 for use at Brecon outstation as replacements for Alexander PS-bodied Volvo B10Ms 20385, 20387, 20388 and 20389 on Services 39B/39 (Brecon-Talgarth-Hay-on-Wye-Hereford).
Their tenure was sadly only brief and they were replaced on the service in January 2015 by four of the then remaining 12.8m Alexander Dennis Enviro300-bodied MANs reconfigured with Cummins units.
21174, 21176, 21178 and 21179 were sold for scrap in Autumn 2015, 21180 was donated to a college in Wolverhampton, whilst 21187 was purchased by Newtons of Crumlin.
My shot from September 2013 shows 21178 on the A470 just south of Felinfach when Brecon bound. The service is now part of the TrawsCymru network and numbered T14, and is in the hands of the 12 MCV eVoRa-bodied Volvo B8RLEs (21351-62) delivered in 2019.