Marshall Dart and my version of "1 tree hill" behind, DMS355 V355 DLH blinded for R9 an old Orpington Buses route, 27th November 2016.
The re-skirting of original style panels is continuing, albeit slowly, the nearside "overhang" is complete as seen in the photo. Marshall Dart DMS355 served the local R routes for 9 years.
V355DLH was one of a batch of 13, bringing low floor vehicles to some parts of the R network.
It was new to Orpington Buses (First Centrewest; St Mary Cray- garage code Y) in Autumn 1999, and passed to Metrobus (MB) in Winter 2007 renumbered to 122. Withdrawn in the Summer of 2008 and sold to Judge's, then a period with Centrebus and later Yorkshire Tiger.
This Dart SLF passed into preservation in Spring 2015. It is hoped this vehicle will soon be restored to as new condition.
Photo (c) TomG.2016.
Marshall Dart and my version of "1 tree hill" behind, DMS355 V355 DLH blinded for R9 an old Orpington Buses route, 27th November 2016.
The re-skirting of original style panels is continuing, albeit slowly, the nearside "overhang" is complete as seen in the photo. Marshall Dart DMS355 served the local R routes for 9 years.
V355DLH was one of a batch of 13, bringing low floor vehicles to some parts of the R network.
It was new to Orpington Buses (First Centrewest; St Mary Cray- garage code Y) in Autumn 1999, and passed to Metrobus (MB) in Winter 2007 renumbered to 122. Withdrawn in the Summer of 2008 and sold to Judge's, then a period with Centrebus and later Yorkshire Tiger.
This Dart SLF passed into preservation in Spring 2015. It is hoped this vehicle will soon be restored to as new condition.
Photo (c) TomG.2016.