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Tanat Valley: 209 YJ62 FDP, near Welsh Frankton
Somewhat an usual working on the last 449 Ellesmere to Oswestry trip of the date on a late summer Saturday in late June is this Optare Solo SR. This is considering a double decker off the backend of a contract on a school day or a full size saloon at other times been the usual allocation. 209 finds itself covering three round trips after been a odd allocation itself on the 401 Oswestry Town Service that morning in lieu of the usual decker, captured moving at speed in a reasonable to at times tight gap.
209 was one of three Optare Solo SRs purchased new by Tanat Valley for Powys tendered work as I understand it.
The 449 Oswestry to Ellesmere has operated with Tanat Valley since the early cuts of post deregulation of NBC managed Crosville and into privatisation of a early Crosville Wales on a previous D87 service Oswestry to Welshampton via Ellesmere. Arriva operate some weekday AM and PM peak turns as a 449 to Welshampton with subsidy from Shropshire Council with Tanat Valley operating a commerical service from 09:00 until 17:10 ex Oswestry to Ellesmere and return.
It is understood that Tanat Valley have lost the schoolday 54 Shropshire tender to the Marches School to and from Bryn from September to Arriva Midlands (the service has been cancelled by Tanat Valley on the VOSA registration process on checking) that the weekday bus operates 09:00 until 14:00 and return. Early indiacations suggest that the core service will be lost, apart from a AM and PM school short working from Babbinswood that uses the same vehicle on the 401 Oswestry Town Service between will only remain. Never a dull moment in and around Oswestry but a sad loss if the 449 does not survive in its current form.
Tanat Valley: 209 YJ62 FDP, near Welsh Frankton
Somewhat an usual working on the last 449 Ellesmere to Oswestry trip of the date on a late summer Saturday in late June is this Optare Solo SR. This is considering a double decker off the backend of a contract on a school day or a full size saloon at other times been the usual allocation. 209 finds itself covering three round trips after been a odd allocation itself on the 401 Oswestry Town Service that morning in lieu of the usual decker, captured moving at speed in a reasonable to at times tight gap.
209 was one of three Optare Solo SRs purchased new by Tanat Valley for Powys tendered work as I understand it.
The 449 Oswestry to Ellesmere has operated with Tanat Valley since the early cuts of post deregulation of NBC managed Crosville and into privatisation of a early Crosville Wales on a previous D87 service Oswestry to Welshampton via Ellesmere. Arriva operate some weekday AM and PM peak turns as a 449 to Welshampton with subsidy from Shropshire Council with Tanat Valley operating a commerical service from 09:00 until 17:10 ex Oswestry to Ellesmere and return.
It is understood that Tanat Valley have lost the schoolday 54 Shropshire tender to the Marches School to and from Bryn from September to Arriva Midlands (the service has been cancelled by Tanat Valley on the VOSA registration process on checking) that the weekday bus operates 09:00 until 14:00 and return. Early indiacations suggest that the core service will be lost, apart from a AM and PM school short working from Babbinswood that uses the same vehicle on the 401 Oswestry Town Service between will only remain. Never a dull moment in and around Oswestry but a sad loss if the 449 does not survive in its current form.