Strategic Purchase
In 2008 Arriva Cymru purchased the local bus operations of KMP of Llanberis, who was a competitor on the Llandudno to Bangor and Caernarfon corridor. This brought seven Wright Eclipse Urban-bodied Volvo B7RLEs (2793-9) into the fleet, which had carried 'KMP' plates from new but were re-registered with Bangor marks akin to their ages by their new owners.
The purchase gave the company the opportunity to rationalise service frequencies. However, the Volvos were retained at Bangor depot as regular performers on the corridor (Services 5 and X5) and they received appropriate branding.
2796, which was new as M7 KMP, had strayed on to what was then Traws Cambria Service X32 (Bangor-Caernarfon-Porthmadog-Dolgellau-Machynlleth-Aberystwyth) when I caught up with her in Pentrerhedyn Street in Machynlleth when returning north in October 2011.
All seven of the B7RLEs became driver trainers in the Arriva North Wales and North West fleets, which saw 2796 being re-numbered 8255.
Strategic Purchase
In 2008 Arriva Cymru purchased the local bus operations of KMP of Llanberis, who was a competitor on the Llandudno to Bangor and Caernarfon corridor. This brought seven Wright Eclipse Urban-bodied Volvo B7RLEs (2793-9) into the fleet, which had carried 'KMP' plates from new but were re-registered with Bangor marks akin to their ages by their new owners.
The purchase gave the company the opportunity to rationalise service frequencies. However, the Volvos were retained at Bangor depot as regular performers on the corridor (Services 5 and X5) and they received appropriate branding.
2796, which was new as M7 KMP, had strayed on to what was then Traws Cambria Service X32 (Bangor-Caernarfon-Porthmadog-Dolgellau-Machynlleth-Aberystwyth) when I caught up with her in Pentrerhedyn Street in Machynlleth when returning north in October 2011.
All seven of the B7RLEs became driver trainers in the Arriva North Wales and North West fleets, which saw 2796 being re-numbered 8255.