On the road / Ar y ffordd
First Hampshire and Dorset: 37736 SF09 LDD
The bulk of the ex West Cornwall open stock was moved over to Dorset for use at Weymouth for the 2025 season. One of the former First Glasgow examples that were converted for use for the Sunseeker routes, it however just remained in yellow and spent its time floating between the Land's End Coaster and Atlantic Coaster where I had sampled it on both. In my visit to Dorset I had sampled this bus through on the whole run between Weymouth and Swanage and back!
One welcome quirk was to have a standlone 55 route to concentrate to collect passengers from the trains and Wool Station, and mainly convey them to Lulworth Cove or the option to the Tank Museum or Monkey World in the opposite direction and thus not adding an extra 20 minutes to serve the later. The 55 carried well at the right time of day but could be hit or miss with competition from Go Ahead with their two services, indeed when I sampled this bus, it was fully loaded out of Wool Station with visitors heading this way on a X50 run. The 55 run here is going against passenger flows, it however returned with a good load for punters heading back to for their train connection.
What do you think of the livery? I quite like it, but the previous Jurassic Coaster livery on open tops was hard to beat.
First Hampshire and Dorset: 37736 SF09 LDD
The bulk of the ex West Cornwall open stock was moved over to Dorset for use at Weymouth for the 2025 season. One of the former First Glasgow examples that were converted for use for the Sunseeker routes, it however just remained in yellow and spent its time floating between the Land's End Coaster and Atlantic Coaster where I had sampled it on both. In my visit to Dorset I had sampled this bus through on the whole run between Weymouth and Swanage and back!
One welcome quirk was to have a standlone 55 route to concentrate to collect passengers from the trains and Wool Station, and mainly convey them to Lulworth Cove or the option to the Tank Museum or Monkey World in the opposite direction and thus not adding an extra 20 minutes to serve the later. The 55 carried well at the right time of day but could be hit or miss with competition from Go Ahead with their two services, indeed when I sampled this bus, it was fully loaded out of Wool Station with visitors heading this way on a X50 run. The 55 run here is going against passenger flows, it however returned with a good load for punters heading back to for their train connection.
What do you think of the livery? I quite like it, but the previous Jurassic Coaster livery on open tops was hard to beat.