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Thought I'd go and investigate the special service between Canning Town and Excel today, this being provided due to the DLR strike. Ensigns turned out much of their fleet, old and new(ish). For my first trip from Canning Town I had the Trident in the centre (now numbered 159, ex Stagecoach 18229) to Excel for M1 back. The bus on the left is Regal Busways ex Metroline TP64, parked up between peak workings supplementing the 474. 3/11/15.
Now there's something different to do with a badly exposed shot, invert the colours. Maybe not everyone's taste but I think it works here. Taken whilst on The Slip at Macduff.
Love Open Water London Royal Docks and the ExCeL Exhibition Centre located at Custom House and the 4 star Sunborn Yacht Hotel in East London
This Optare Excel was new to Ipswich Buses as P194 SGV. It is seen here in the yard of Xidias Coaches, Larnaca, Cyprus
A look back at some more bus shots from a family holiday taken in North Wales in May 2013.
Here, Stena Line of Holyhead 3-door Optare Excel L1150 2 T783KNW works an internal service at the Holyhead ferry port. This bus, one of a pair operated by Stena Line, was new to Concorde Express of Heathrow in 1999.
Former TrentBarton Excel 234 has been used by Kinch recently but it looks like the end of the road parked up in Kinchs' yard, Loughborough with Kinch 618.
Tue 1st April 2014.
New and improved Excel drawing now available:
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Joining the E400 City in the 'buses from the 36 club' is the Optare Excel, the initial vehicle type used to start off the service in 2001.
I don't really know much about the orange line Excels' fleet history with NCT, as there seemed to be two Y reg buses, then two for yellow line, then 51 plates numbered 549-556, with 557 coming in later off green line, and 557 being an 02 plate.
The bus which I traced this over is Andrew's Y546 DTO, the same Y546 DTO which was one of the two Y regs mentioned above.
The Lotus Excel was made between 1982 and 1992. It is based on the 1975 Lotus Eclat and is powered by a 2.2-litre, four cylinder engine.
173 "Gentle Giant" Ipswich Buses
YG52DGF
seen at Tower Ramparts Bus Station, Ipswich.
If green/white single deckers are your thing, then the Excels are the last gasp to sample it nowadays (as of November 2017).
1108 had arrived via the take over of Williamsons service work,one of those was the 576 route to Oswestry where i had taken this photograph on my last day at Arriva 27/3/02.1108 was later transfered to Swanlincote together with 1109
Trentbarton Optare Excel 263 Y263 DRC still looks good in Sutton in Ashfield working the 141 on 09-07-15.
EJ-PRLN Cessna 560XLS Citation Excel +
Latest biz jet addition to Irish register
Shannon 3rd December 2022
Optare Excel R208DKG had been new to Cardiff in 1997 but soon passed to Reading Buses and then on to Eastbourne Buses. It had also spent time with South Gloucestershire of Patchway, but it's final PSV owner before this shot at a dealer in October 2009 had been Red Arrow of Huddersfield. It was not to operate again and was scrapped before 2011.
Next to it is Dennis Dart / Alexander K109 XHG which had been new to United Counties before passing to GTL in Merseyside and then A2Z of Walsall.
Abus of Bristol still operate this Optare Excel that was new in 2001. It's seen here parked up next to Cabot Circus shopping centre.
Operator: Abus
Vehicle: Optare Excel
Reg: Y243 DRC
Location: Bond Street, Bristol
Route: Not in Service
Date: June 15, 2016
L-R: 713 T713NOE, 7205 R408HWU, 685 S685YOL.
Ousted by brand new Volvo B7RLE's at Wolverhampton. these Optare Excels await thier fate at Miller Street garage in Birmingham. Probably to be shipped off to NXWM's infamous 'car park' storage site and stored till the scrap man calls.
685 and 713 were new to Travel West Midlands. 7205 was new to Travel London and came to the West Midlands via Travel Dundee.
Excel, London. February 2012.
I attended with Geek Syndicate, who used some of my photographs in their magazine and blog.
Excel No 266 now based at Langley Mill, on the 'donkey' run shuttle to Heanor market leaving the garage. Mon 12th May 2014.