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The indigo, i4, Skylink, Skylink Express, Mainline, Keyworth, Cotgrave and Kinch's 9 were all diverting via London Road, Radcliffe Road, the A52, Clifton Bridge and Clifton Boulevard.
142 was seen on Radcliffe Road whilst on a diverted Cotgrave.
The indigo, i4, Skylink, Skylink Express, Mainline, Keyworth, Cotgrave and Kinch's 9 were all diverting via London Road, Radcliffe Road, the A52, Clifton Bridge and Clifton Boulevard.
208 was seen on Radcliffe Road whilst on a diverted Derby bound indigo.
A 2009 view of Trent Barton Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse 728 - FJ09 BXG and Scania L94UB / Wright Solar 634 - FJ03 VXB in Meadow Road depot, Derby. 728 was just a couple of months old at the time and is now allocated to Nottingham for the keyworth. 634 subsequently became a red spare before transferring to sister company TM Travel for Peak Line 218.
The indigo, i4, Skylink, Skylink Express, Mainline, Keyworth, Cotgrave and Kinch's 9 were all diverting via London Road, Radcliffe Road, the A52, Clifton Bridge and Clifton Boulevard.
133 was seen on a diverted Derby bound i4.
Stagecoach London 10203, SL64HZC - Route 136 | Elephant & Castle / Keyworth Street With a Grove Park Bound Service
Saturday 20th December 2014
@ Londontransport3/Mark Mcwalter 2014
Replacing the keyworth connection from Summer 2017, former the mickleover branded 728 now joins the Nottingham fleet, displacing the current Optare Tempos that are being withdrawn and disposed.
Captured in Derby depot, 728 demonstrates the new brighter palette (not disimilar to the current livery of the mickleover Enviro 200s in situ).
The indigo, i4, Skylink, Skylink Express, Mainline, Keyworth, Cotgrave and Kinch's 9 were all diverting via London Road, Radcliffe Road, the A52, Clifton Bridge and Clifton Boulevard.
217 was seen on Radcliffe Road whilst on a diverted inbound indigo.
It’s half-cab central! Classics from a variety of marques are lined up at Rudd on what was a fairly overcast but not unpleasant day. YNU 351G and OVL 743 are Bristol Lodekka representatives from Midland General and Lincolnshire; MOF 90 is a Guy Arab of Birmingham City Transport; FW 5696 is a Leyland Tiger also from Lincolnshire; LNN 353 brings Daimler to the line-up with Gash of Newark’s CVD6; TBC 164 is a Leyland Titan from Leicester City Transport.
This particular photo is so high up the order because it’s the one which effectively sums up 2025’s NABS event – in this shot alone only the presence of the Leicester Titan sets it apart from something I could have taken some previous year. As I seem to have begun a tradition of doing from 2023 and 24, here’s a breakdown of my thoughts regarding individual categories:
Vehicles on Display
The majority of the attending vehicles were the ‘old regulars’ that turn up every year, and despite the few ‘new faces’ it did feel like a roll call of the expected 1930s-thru-70s East Midlands classic bus attendees. I counted 26 vehicles present (not including those stored away in the NABS buildings), of which 24 were buses and two were ancillary vehicles. The only buses younger than 45 years old were a 1983 ECW Olympian and an Eclipse that TrentBarton brought, neither of which ran trips, so in terms of newer buses this was one of the poorest for a while.
Visitor Numbers
This is hard to judge but I reckon patronage was better than the past couple of years, as it didn’t feel as dead as 2023 and when the free trips were arriving/departing the area around the gate was buzzing with folk alighting from one bus and/or getting on the next. There also seemed to be a decent number of families about, enjoying a day out with children as well as the typical grey-haired old men... and me, of course. My usual gauge to ‘busyness’ is how easily I can get group shots of vehicles without people wandering across, and it was more of a challenge in 2025 than in the previous two years!
Traders
To be honest I’ve kind of given up looking for stuff to buy at these sorts of rallies because nobody turns up with their unboxed Corgi OOC Palatines and Eclipses anymore. There was a trade stall in the newer NABS hall which I seem to think was mainly selling boxes of photos but may have also had some ancient white metal bus kits depicting equally ancient prototype buses. IIRC the selection of diecasts on offer was something along the lines of an EFE wartime Guy Arab and some el-cheapo supermarket grade Matchbox-type cars.
(Nevermind, ignore that whole paragraph as TTC Diecast brought a whole marquee and it was FULL of models... I just didn’t buy any so I kind of forgot)
Timetable
The departure board was back!! Well, more accurately it was a timetable showing what routes were operating at what times, with each route given a letter and each trip a number (A1, A2, A3 and so-on for one route, B1, B2, B3 for the next). Then another notice showed the registration of the vehicle scheduled to take each trip, so you could plan ahead to take a ride on whichever vehicle you wanted. There was even a NEW ROUTE for 2025 to Keyworth. I’m glad this crucial part of the event is back!
So, overall? Off the back of 2023/24’s NABS rallies, 2025’s was an improvement but still doesn’t compare to the heights it reached in 2021/22. If I was going to describe that in one word, it would be “predictable” - not necessarily bad, but rather generic with nothing that particularly stood out this time. The most interesting bit was when I went for a ride on a London Transport RF class.
27.7.25
Trent Barton Optare Tempo 313 - YJ07 VSK is pictured in Keyworth about to return to Nottingham Broadmarsh with yet another keyworth connection service. One of four such vehicles dedicated to this frequent route with departures every 15 minutes, they were replaced shortly after the photograph was taken by slightly newer Volvo B7RLEs. 313 can now be found in the fleet of Lynx, Kings Lynn.
Visiting the first Go Green event held in my village gave me the chance to add to my stranger project. Knowing too many of the general public meant I had to concentrate on the stall owners who were offering a wide range of eco-friendly, fair trade and certified cruelty free goods, including recycled items, organic, vegan and other foods.
Naomi was representing the Co-op stores, giving away different types of chocolate and informing the visitors on their other lines of fair-trade products. Naomi’s role for the Co-op is as a member pioneer – which means she visits shows and other community events to see how the Co-op can help with promotions and anything else. You can find out more about what she does for her job here: www.facebook.com/naomi.keyworth.31
A building behind the Co-op’s stand was in shade so I asked Naomi if she’s mind going over to it so I could use one of its metal doors as a background. Working out of the strong sunlight meant I didn’t have to deal with bright highlights or heavy shadows. This made photographing Naomi a quick and easy shoot.
Naomi had come back to the village and secured her job with the Co-op after being forced to come back home by the current pandemic. Naomi is a professional dancer who specializes in contemporary and musical theatre dance. She’d been working in Marbaiya before Coronavirus brought an end to this. Hopefully, Naomi will be able to return in the not too distant future.
I asked Naomi who her first star crush had been on and she said the UK model, novelist and TV presenter Tess Daly.
What can’t Naomi live without? Love was her answer.
How would Naomi describe herself in just one word? Passionate she replied.
Thank-you so much Naomi for giving me a few moments of your time to allow me to photograph you for my stranger project. I hope you like your portrait.
This picture is #236 in the 100 Strangers project, yes, I’ve decided to do a third round. Find out more about the project and see pictures taken by other photographers at the 100 Strangers Flickr Group page
This is my 207th submission to the Human Family Group. To view more street portraits and stories visit www.flickr.com/groups/thehumanfamily/
Trent Barton Volvo B7RLE/Wright Eclipse FJ09BXH (729) is seen as it heads through Plumtree with the 08:30 Nottingham to Keyworth...errr...Keyworth.
Initially thinking nothing of it, a Keyworth bus passing the Railway Station is nothing out of the ordinary. Until I saw the blind and frantically grabbed the camera....
728 unusually leaves Nottingham behind on a Skylink Express to East Midlands Airport via Trent Bridge, Wilford Green and Clifton.
A strange aspect of the renewed Keyworth fleet is that a sole 08 plate Eclipse has been branded up to work alongside the 66 plate MMCs – it isn’t even a spare, just one of the regular buses. Given that the previous fleet were 09 plate Eclipses, painting up a marginally older one as a replacement is an unusual decision.
However it is generally a good thing considering:
It adds a bit of variety to the Keyworth fleet
It allows a frequency improvement on the route
It allows other 66 plates to stay on the Mickelover for an improved frequency
It can be newly refurbished and retrimmed, unlike if they’d reused an old Keyworth Eclipse
There’s no real difference between the 08/58/09 plate Eclipses
It is one of only two 08 plate Eclipses in the fleet!
In this view 726 is setting off from Nottingham city centre, making its way along Canal Street and about to call at Broadmarsh bus station on 11.3.25. Rather annoyingly one of its clean, freshly painted wheels has been replaced with a dirty one – look at the difference between the wheel and the inner hub.
FJ08 WHR
Despite having photos of most of TrentBarton's Optare Tempo fleet, I never uploaded very many to Flickr. As you can probably guess following my uploads of older NCT vehicles, I've sorted out the best pictures I have of these buses for ease of referencing, with the added bonus of there now being considerably more photos of Mainline, Keyworth and Twenty One branded Optare Tempos on my photostream.
The Mainline was run with a mix of 54 and 07 plates and on 30.6.17 07 plate 309 is turning onto Friar Lane.
Line up of buses awaiting workshop attention at trent barton Langley Mill bus depot on 17 July 2017.
Ex keyworth 315 YJ07VSM Optare Tempo X1200 (sold?)
Ex mainline 301 FD54JXZ Optare Tempo X1200 (withdrawn?)
Ex keyworth 314 YJ07VSL Optare Tempo X1200 (sold?)
721 FJ58KKP Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse awaiting repair
trent barton 313 YJ07VSK Optare Tempo X1200 B42F at Keyworth Church on the keyworth connection to Nottingham on 17 June 2017.
12, a thoroughly bespoke, avante-garde Tempo from launch operator Trent Barton in Nottingham, crossed with its more utilitarian Norfolk cousins, sporting a rear axle sourced from a Konectbus Tempo driven by an engine from an abused Stagecoach Norfolk Tempo.
A chaotic fix as whilst capable of being very quick once up to speed, it seemed incapable of running properly; power delivery was laggy and not especially smooth.
Upon returning from Hunstanton it became stranded in Lynn Bus Station with engine failure, this time not even making it back to base. It's once in a blue moon that a Lynx bus requires recovery.
Thankfully Lynx have refused to give up, and have treated it to an engine rebuild and it's captured here on its second day back since early August. Super cool - much cooler than Lynn's poopy Christmas decs
I was hoping this would be less blurry, but I guess I wasn't very lucky today, especially with the route itself... :D
Notts&Derby 910 P910CTO a 1996 Dennis Dart SLF Plaxton Pointer B39F at Derwent Bridge in Derby on park and ride route D1 on 23 May 2009.
Still partly in trent barton Keyworth Connection livery.
On diversion last Sunday due to part of Melton Road being shut. The Green Line 5 and Keyworth were diverted down Valley Road and Alford Road, with the Keyworth also running down Melton Gardens.
Alexander Dennis Enviro 200MMC
Station Road, Plumtree
The last photo I took here was of one of the former 'Keyworth Connection' Optare Tempos in its twilight months on the service several years ago!! The railway bridge at Plumtree is a favourite location of mine for photos, albeit one I visit rarely, so it had to feature in one of my Keyworth shots! The lucky subject was 104, seen speeding towards Keyworth on 22nd February 2025.
trent barton 728 FJ09BXG Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse B45F at Meadows Way in Nottingham on the keyworth on 8 March 2018.
trent barton 316 YJ07VSN Optare Tempo X1200 B42F at Nottingham Station on keyworth connection on 8 October 2016.
In its last weeks in service before replacement with refurbished buses, Trent Barton Optare Tempo 313 - YJ07 VSK stands in Nottingham Broadmarsh bus station with a keyworth connection to Tollerton & Keyworth. The replacements will be Volvo B7RLEs previously used on the Mickleover.
Because of the ongoing roadworks at the former Broadmarsh Bus Station outside the Magistrates Court, the services which terminated there have been temporarily rehomed to Spaniel Row.
728 leaves the temporary terminus with a Keyworth to Keyworth via Trent Bridge, Edwalton and Tollerton.
Trent Barton Buses: 908 (P908 CTO) a Plaxton Pointer bodied Dennis Dart SLF, painted in all blue Keyworth Connection branded livery. It is captured here in Nottingham's Broad Marsh Bus Station before operating on Service KC to Keyworth.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 10th August 2005.
Ref No: JL/011984/D.
Seen Here Sat On Break Outside Of Trentbartons, Manvers Street Depot Is...
Trentbarton ADL E200MMC Fleet Number 104 YX66WLO
Having seen a very varied allocation for the first two and a half years of its existence, the 30 series Trent Barton Ilkeston network is now by and large operated by B7RLEs. Most of these are former H1/X38 and Keyworth vehicles which have been fairly recently outshopped in the bright red spare livery. FJ09BXM (732) is in this number, seen here on Lockton Avenue in Heanor with the 12:08 Hucknall to Ilkeston on the lengthy 34.