On the road / Ar y ffordd
Arriva North East: 4721 YJ10 DTF
I always find a visit to the Northeast and in and around Teesside and Redcar interesting, particular with the sole allocation of in the UK of Turkish built Temsa Avenue's.
Redcar depot is the only place to operate the type, originally having a batch new on '59' and '10' plates, 4700 to 4120. Two were lost to fire damage early on but the remainder of the batch seem to operate fine. In later years, the dealer stock of Arriva Bus & Coach (UK dealer of the type) who failed to sell any to any other operator, despite various hires and demonstrations were sent to join the others at Redcar. 4722-6 on '11' plates were incidentally used on hire to the ill-fated Arriva Malta operation. 4721 has a different history to them all, having been allocated on long term demonstration to First West Yorkshire, even carrying First Barbie livery and evaluated on a variety of routes, it subsequently failed to find favour and no orders resulted. It also saw hire / demonstration use to a variety of UK operators including Richard Brothers in West Wales that hired in this example for a short time, along with what became 4726 YJ11 GHG, I actually sampled the later in service in Aberystwyth.
Anyway, 4721 operates on a common route for the type, the 63 between Redcar and Middlesbrough. Notable that 4721-6 still carry the older 'interurban' livery at the time of capture, whilst lower numbers in the Arriva 2017 livery.
Seemingly I snapped the same bus on the same route in 2022: www.flickr.com/photos/196463094@N07/52379091638/
Arriva North East: 4721 YJ10 DTF
I always find a visit to the Northeast and in and around Teesside and Redcar interesting, particular with the sole allocation of in the UK of Turkish built Temsa Avenue's.
Redcar depot is the only place to operate the type, originally having a batch new on '59' and '10' plates, 4700 to 4120. Two were lost to fire damage early on but the remainder of the batch seem to operate fine. In later years, the dealer stock of Arriva Bus & Coach (UK dealer of the type) who failed to sell any to any other operator, despite various hires and demonstrations were sent to join the others at Redcar. 4722-6 on '11' plates were incidentally used on hire to the ill-fated Arriva Malta operation. 4721 has a different history to them all, having been allocated on long term demonstration to First West Yorkshire, even carrying First Barbie livery and evaluated on a variety of routes, it subsequently failed to find favour and no orders resulted. It also saw hire / demonstration use to a variety of UK operators including Richard Brothers in West Wales that hired in this example for a short time, along with what became 4726 YJ11 GHG, I actually sampled the later in service in Aberystwyth.
Anyway, 4721 operates on a common route for the type, the 63 between Redcar and Middlesbrough. Notable that 4721-6 still carry the older 'interurban' livery at the time of capture, whilst lower numbers in the Arriva 2017 livery.
Seemingly I snapped the same bus on the same route in 2022: www.flickr.com/photos/196463094@N07/52379091638/