On the road / Ar y ffordd
First Hampshire & Dorset: 37058 YJ06 XMK
This particular Volvo B7TL, Wright Eclipse Gemini, already seems well travelled since been converted to part open top conversion. The covering I understand was grafted on from a scrap bus by Thorntons Bus Refurbishment after it was deroofed with its original owner, First West Yorkshire.
YJ06 XMK has originally arrived as an extra bus in Cornwall for the Atlantic Coaster, before been rebranded as a Land's End Coaster, it moved onto Somerset for the Exmoor Coaster service for a few years and subsequently or by odd choice ended up in Dorset! The previous Exmoor Coaster branding has been removed, that having been altered on the Cornish graphics for a scene of Porthcurno on the side :)
I sampled this bus on this service, X52 Weymouth to Bridport and can say it handled the conditions well. I have previously sampled it in Somerset and Cornwall. It will be interesting if it lingers on into the 2025 season (with sister buses been in South Wales for the Tenby run), but surely a repaint is out of the question!
First Hampshire & Dorset: 37058 YJ06 XMK
This particular Volvo B7TL, Wright Eclipse Gemini, already seems well travelled since been converted to part open top conversion. The covering I understand was grafted on from a scrap bus by Thorntons Bus Refurbishment after it was deroofed with its original owner, First West Yorkshire.
YJ06 XMK has originally arrived as an extra bus in Cornwall for the Atlantic Coaster, before been rebranded as a Land's End Coaster, it moved onto Somerset for the Exmoor Coaster service for a few years and subsequently or by odd choice ended up in Dorset! The previous Exmoor Coaster branding has been removed, that having been altered on the Cornish graphics for a scene of Porthcurno on the side :)
I sampled this bus on this service, X52 Weymouth to Bridport and can say it handled the conditions well. I have previously sampled it in Somerset and Cornwall. It will be interesting if it lingers on into the 2025 season (with sister buses been in South Wales for the Tenby run), but surely a repaint is out of the question!