[FAIR LOAN] Stagecoach West 'Gold' 10902 - YX67 VBL

Perhaps the standout pair of loans for Hull Fair services this year, which encouraged me well and truly not to miss out this year, were two 'Gold'-branded Enviro400 MMCs, one from the East and West divisions respectively. The East Midlands, of course, isn't Gold country. I wonder why? Do we have an abundance of branded services already? Our last 'proper' Gold buses came in 2019 to cover for buses on loan for the long-departed Lincoln Christmas Market, so let's just say I was positively itching to go catch them... or, at least, one of them.

 

However, with Saturday no longer an option for... well, the rugby, here's where my plans for today started to fall apart. See, I was thinking this year I might start out at Humber Bridge to catch the first buses heading out while it was still daylight. Unfortunately, I arrived a bit too early, meaning the buses were bunched too close together, and there was nowhere sensible to park without having to pay up. It just so happened, also, that all the out-of-county loanees were allocated here. So... yeah, given the circumstances, this was the best I could do. Ah man.

 

Somehow the best service shot I could get of one of the two loaned Golds, given the circumstances, Stagecoach West's 10902, a 2017 ADL Enviro400 MMC numerically up from the previous InterConnect (but not by registration!) and originally branded, quite fittingly, for Cheltenham's Park & Ride 93, is seen on loan to Hull and heading up the leafy concubines of Ferriby Road on its first Park & Ride 22 of the night. Interesting to note that this coming from Cheltenham, this is the furthest south a bus has travelled from to be on loan for Hull Fair duties.

Done