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DSC_5533 - 40 - YD73 FPE - Yutong GT12 - Fernhill Travel (FlixBus) - Victoria, Buckingham Palace Road 27/01/24
DSC_0072 - FX46 - OY23 CXZ - Neoplan N2216/3SHDC Tourliner - Whippet Coaches (FlixBus) - Leeds, Kirkgate 30/09/23
Acting on your best behaviour, turn your back on mother nature, everybody wants to rule the world...
And there it is. My first Flixbus photo. The way things are looking, it might not be the last time I see them about. Forget Megabus these days - it's this German giant coming in and competing with National Express. A short view back to the past: in 2013, Germany had it's own moment of Thatcherite deregulation and after a long policy of banning intercity coach services in favour of the railways, opened up the intercity coach market and made it competitive. Flixbus, founded two years prior, swallowed everything up, then it came for everywhere else in Europe. They even got Megabus in the EU! And in the middle of 2020, Flixbus intercity operations competing with National Express and Megabus commenced.
I won't hide my tistate for Flixbus being in the United Kingdom. Why? I'm not entirely sure. It's not like Flixbus and Flixbus only run the service - just like National Express and (in part) Megabus, independent coach firms are contracted to run the service. Perhaps it's my faintest bit of nationalism in favour of National Express, or maybe, I'm just no fan of seeing one big corporation sweep up the intercity coaching market. But that can easily be applied to National Express, so...
Ah, I have it. There's a bus simulator Flixbus partnered with named 'Fernbus', and for some reason, I found the 'welcome aboard' CD the driver can play very irritating.
Right, there's that long, long essay out of the way - seen here departing from Meadowhall Bus Station with a not-too-impressed driver at the wheel is Whippet Coaches' Flixbus-contracted FX23, a 2017 Scania K410EB6 Caetano Levante 2 new as NX23 for National Express services(!). Note one of it's former family parked up in the background.
Seen on Clayton Street West, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne prior to operating Flixbus Service UK073 at 10:20 from Newcastle to Manchester Shudehill Interchange.
A London to Birmingham Flixbus service photographed shortly before its arrival at the Dudley Street terminus.
Coachbuild/Carroceria: Irmaos Mota Atomic VII
Engine/Motorizacion: MAN 19.440
Length/Longitud: 13 metres
Plate/Matricula: 41-SI-76
DSC_2555 - WZ 273-HN - Neoplan P06 N1222/3L Skyliner L - All-Mit Automobile (FlixBus) - Frankfurt, Mannheimer Straße 10/05/25
Simond's - Flixbus liveried - YK25 OME seen at Norwich Bus Station operating service 007 to Stratford on May 27th 2025
BV67 JZP is a Scania K410EB6 with Caetano Levante C56FLt coachwork new as Whippet, Swavesey, NX29 in January 2018 for use on National Express duties.
Now carrying Flixbus livery, it is seen here in Newcastle upon Tyne having arrived from London on service 001 in November 2021.
DSC_2130 - ZG 0220-CB - Volvo B11R/Irmãos Mota Atomic 9 - Croatia Bus (FlixBus) - Frankfurt, Mannheimer Straße 10/05/25
Setra S515 HD n°50626 de Blaguss Slovakia du réseau Flixbus sur la ligne 902 vers Budapest Airport à "Busterminal Südtirolerplatz".
DSC_2714 - YT24 BUV - Scania K360CB4/Irizar i6s Efficient - Chalfont Coaches (Treinta Limited Edition No 27; FlixBus) - Victoria, Buckingham Palace Road 12/02/25