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Seen at AMRTM, Aldridge is preserved former West Midlands Optare Excel S693YOL.
This vehicle spent its entire service life based at Wolverhmapton's Park Lane garage.
Amb passió, voluntat, amor ... i molta delicadesa ... el resultat no pot ser un altre que excel·lència !!
One of those short stop gap acquisitions was the four Optare Excels transferred down from First Glasgow, they looked smart and were something different on the Plymouth scene.
However you had this feeling it wouldn't last and they were withdrawn and put into store at Muller Road to allow the book value to drop low enough in order for them to be disposed of.
Three out of the four were regular performers (W52WDS being the frequent sick note) they appeared on just about any route but the 2 & 3 was common, 62936 heads along Union Street towards Royal Parade before switching to work the 2 out to Mount Batten.
Seen waiting to start the days work in First's Searle Crescent, Weston bus depot is one of the Excel branded E400s. This example is one of the former London examples used on the service. I rather think this branding is smart and eye catching.
First West of England's LK08 FLA (33508) is seen early on a Sunday morning in the Weston-Super-Mare depot. Excel is the branding used for services with an 'X' that run out of Bristol. It is also used for the X1 between Norwich and Peterborough. LK08FLA was new in May 2008 to First Capital, as their DN33508 to the typical TFL specification. DN 33508 then left London and went to Leicester for use on local services such as the 22 and 54 with some sister vehicles gaining branding for these services. After leaving Leicester, it moved to the West of England for use in Bristol, but was later transferred down to Weston. It is an Alexander Dennis Trident 2/Alexander Dennis (ADL) Enviro 400.
Apologies for the poor photo but the light is rubbish tonight. With less than two weeks of Excel operation in Blackpool, we still can field eleven from our twelve remaining machines. 218/20/1 seen awaiting their wash and positioning for tomorrow's duties
Notts & Derby Optare Excel 264 - Y264 DRC lays over in Derby bus station before operating route 11 to Ilkeston Hospital.
Quite a nice Excel is this one, which is ironic seeing as it's, well, an Excel.
Safeguard - X307CBT - Brooklands Spring Gathering 2015.
Rollei 35S | 40mm | 1/60 | f8 | orange filter | Fomapan 100 | Fomadol Excel W27 (Xtol) 1+3 | 11' | Minolta Scan Dual II
Still wearing the livery of former owner, Lancashire United, this Alexander bodied Volvo B10M was seen on rail replacement work at Liverpool Street Stn in 2005.
YJ51JXH has been on my radar for sometime, built as a prototype dual door demonstrator by Optare, it saw limited use before being sold to Wallace driver training school based in Wembley, London. Usually outbased near Isleworth in West London it was finally tracked down in June and very kindly posed after a training session.
First Eastern Counties
Scania N250UD / Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC City
36909 - YN69XZO
Seen on Excel service B in Peterborough Bus Station.
A very generic shot, I know, of these stunning new E400Citys, though it was all I had time for in Peterborough yesterday! A day out to be had some day...
Inside First West of England Weston-super-Mare Depot we see 47552 SN14FGD photographed in the excel orange livery.
This bus was photographed with permission.
Taken March 2022.
Henry and Bear in a blanket fort constructed from some studio backdrop poles, kitchen chairs, and a few well placed bags of Cookies to hold everything in place.
See stream or blog post (URL below) for a wider view of the general setup.
This is the sort of shoot that Henry excels at - Doing Nothing as I fuss around him trying to get everything positioned Just So - and Mr. Zachary… doesn't.
So my handsome boy got the night off, earning his Modeling Cookies performing his favorite tricks for me instead.
Our Daily Challenge - Mar 25 2015 - "Your Choice of Composition"
Framing Henry with a tent…
Daily Dog Challenge 1248. "Triangle"
115 Pictures in 2015 - #70. Triangle
Today's Post (Blanket Fort) : www.bzdogs.com/2015/04/blanket-fort.html
Stop on by Zachary and Henry's blog: bzdogs.com
It's been a LONG time coming, but bus drawings are back. Well, back as in I got two finished, but I don't know how soon another one will be coming seeing as how busy with other stuff I've been.
With this new Optare Excel drawing, it means I've completed re-draws of the first four vehicle types I traced on Paint.net back in 2018 for the Route 36 picture; the other three being the Scania Omnidekka, Enviro 400 Scania and Enviro 400 City.
The hardest thing about this drawing was finding a picture of an Excel that I had which was good enough to make a decent drawing from. Since they're quite rare machines, I haven't got as many Excel pictures as I have of other vehicles, and most of those have the windows covered in reflections where I can't see the interior. In the end, I found one which was just about good enough and just tried my best with the interior, although given how little of it I could see it isn't as detailed as some of the others I've done.
The Excel is straight up one of my favourite buses, being an extremely nostalgic part of my early childhood, so in time I think I'll be doing a number of liveries on this. Right now, though, here's a plain white version for you to use. It has the additional lip on the front bumper like some Excel 2s had, and can be deleted off if you don't require it. I may (or may not) upload a second version of the plain Excel without the bumper lip and a front wheel trim, which is how NCT's tended to be. This one is more like a TrentBarton spec Excel, although it has NCT green interior bars... because, erm, it just does.
Feel free to download it, slap a livery on and mess about editing it etc to create your dream Optare Excel, if you so wish. Check the album description for the worms and ignitions - I mean terms and conditions.
(tags playing up so I'm putting them in the description here)
Optare Excel Colour Bus Drawing Blank TR673 Digital CG Artwork Paint.net Colouring Paintable Repaint
First Eastern Counties (33805 YX63LJK) seen on the Route X11 from Norwich to Belton, in it's Coastlink livery. This bus was
formerly First Excel for the X1, X11, Xbefore the new Enviro 400 City's replaced these on the route. This now see's itself on the Routes X1, X11, X22, X2, and X21.
In Europe the Hyundai Excel was the succesor of the Pony saloon back in 1989. The Excel was built until 1994. This model is owned by a Hyundai dealership.
A model of the short 10.7m Optare Excels that were delivered to Fylde with the Reg N20? LCK. These were plauged with issues and were replaced. These are a white metal kit (copnver
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA Tough 4...
Love this underwater camera and it excels in close up underwater work with good light...
Snapped in Weston-Super-Mare sporting the bright 'excel' livery last year, Alexander Dennis Enviro 400/Trident 2 33417 WA56FTP which was new to First Devon & Cornwall for the Plymouth Park & Ride services is seen here working the X1 Direct service to Bristol.
Former NCT Excel 560 has been sold to Goodwin at Eccles. Seen in their yard receiving attention.
Fri 11th July 2014
Optare Excel X606 XFX seen here in Llandudno whilst working the 09:10 Express Motors X1 Blaenau Ffestiniog service
Once a common sight in the city, the Optare Excels have now been out of service for over 3 years.
Here 685 is seen leaving the old bus station on Pendeford circular 507A.
In Europe the Hyundai Excel was the successor of the Pony saloon back in 1989. The Excel was built until 1994.
Optare Excel no. R340NTY / Go-NorthEast fleet no. 8140 is seen at East Herrington, Sunderland, in the year 2000, on service 222 from Sunderland to Durham.
Around 2004/05, it was exported to the Irish Republic for use as a school bus.