Metroline VW1057 - LK60 AEB
Well, with the Hull bus scene rather settling down at the moment, as well as a double-header of trips to Manchester and London due to come, I suppose now is a better time than ever to getting clearing out the photo backlog, no? Now, where were we...
...Bloody hell, full-diesel Wrights this close to central London! And I thought the early Enviro400 diesels were a surprise enough! This truly solidified the rather out-of-turn trip to White City and the old Broadcasting House as, therefore, well worth the trip. Now, though, to finding something interesting here before taking the Tube back to central London...
While we're on the topic of Metroline, here's a firm that has unexpectedly grown in magnitudes since I was last uploading London photos. Tranche 3 of Greater Manchester's 'Bee Network' bus franchising system, slightly delayed due to, I suspect, Stagecoach chucking all the toys out the pram, was announced unexpectedly to have secured major South Manchester bus franchises in March last year, and from the 5th of January 2025, operations commenced in ComfortDelGro's first bus operation north of the Watford Gap. Priority number one for this upcoming trip on Wednesday, therefore, be to capture some of those new vehicles there!
Kicking off things again with a relative bang, Metroline's VW1057, a 2010 Volvo B9TL Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 then based at Brentford garage (AH), is seen heading out to likely reposition at the White City Bus Station at the end of a 227 to... well, White City.
Metroline VW1057 - LK60 AEB
Well, with the Hull bus scene rather settling down at the moment, as well as a double-header of trips to Manchester and London due to come, I suppose now is a better time than ever to getting clearing out the photo backlog, no? Now, where were we...
...Bloody hell, full-diesel Wrights this close to central London! And I thought the early Enviro400 diesels were a surprise enough! This truly solidified the rather out-of-turn trip to White City and the old Broadcasting House as, therefore, well worth the trip. Now, though, to finding something interesting here before taking the Tube back to central London...
While we're on the topic of Metroline, here's a firm that has unexpectedly grown in magnitudes since I was last uploading London photos. Tranche 3 of Greater Manchester's 'Bee Network' bus franchising system, slightly delayed due to, I suspect, Stagecoach chucking all the toys out the pram, was announced unexpectedly to have secured major South Manchester bus franchises in March last year, and from the 5th of January 2025, operations commenced in ComfortDelGro's first bus operation north of the Watford Gap. Priority number one for this upcoming trip on Wednesday, therefore, be to capture some of those new vehicles there!
Kicking off things again with a relative bang, Metroline's VW1057, a 2010 Volvo B9TL Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 then based at Brentford garage (AH), is seen heading out to likely reposition at the White City Bus Station at the end of a 227 to... well, White City.