TM Travel 666
TM Travel Scania L94UB/Wright Solar FH54VRY (666) seen as it crosses Ashopton Viaduct whilst operating the 10:10 Castleton-Sheffield 273.
TM Travel presently operate Sunday workings on the 273/4 to a roughly two hourly frequency under contract to DCC. The company's involvement in the routes began 15 years ago when they replaced Stagecoach as the operator, using the numbers 241 and 242 from August 2009 when the majority of journeys were rerouted to terminate at Bakewell rather than Castleton to October 2011 when Hulleys won the contract for Mon-Sat workings. The number 275 was used to denote Bakewell journeys from this point and, for the past few weeks, all journeys have operated under this number, with the spur to Fairholmes becoming Sundays-only during lockdown. Sunday workings are set to move to Hulleys in two weeks as the company is launching an X57 between Sheffield and Manchester which will run over a fair portion of the 273/4/5 route and will divert via Fairholmes and Bamford on Sundays, a move which has presumably cancelled the 273/4 contract (though this has yet to be announced). The existing 275 is being renumbered 257 in-keeping with the number X57.
The vehicle carries the number of satan / my Flickr username and was transferred from Trent Barton to TM in early 2018. It retains the Skylink colours of its former operator, though gained a red front around two months ago which may suggest that it is due to receive an overall advert as carried by two other Solars in the TM fleet.
TM Travel 666
TM Travel Scania L94UB/Wright Solar FH54VRY (666) seen as it crosses Ashopton Viaduct whilst operating the 10:10 Castleton-Sheffield 273.
TM Travel presently operate Sunday workings on the 273/4 to a roughly two hourly frequency under contract to DCC. The company's involvement in the routes began 15 years ago when they replaced Stagecoach as the operator, using the numbers 241 and 242 from August 2009 when the majority of journeys were rerouted to terminate at Bakewell rather than Castleton to October 2011 when Hulleys won the contract for Mon-Sat workings. The number 275 was used to denote Bakewell journeys from this point and, for the past few weeks, all journeys have operated under this number, with the spur to Fairholmes becoming Sundays-only during lockdown. Sunday workings are set to move to Hulleys in two weeks as the company is launching an X57 between Sheffield and Manchester which will run over a fair portion of the 273/4/5 route and will divert via Fairholmes and Bamford on Sundays, a move which has presumably cancelled the 273/4 contract (though this has yet to be announced). The existing 275 is being renumbered 257 in-keeping with the number X57.
The vehicle carries the number of satan / my Flickr username and was transferred from Trent Barton to TM in early 2018. It retains the Skylink colours of its former operator, though gained a red front around two months ago which may suggest that it is due to receive an overall advert as carried by two other Solars in the TM fleet.