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Scania N113DRB East Lancs Cityzen. The bus was new to Jones, Pontypridd (Shamrock)
The bus is seen here at the junction of Carrington Street/Station Street, Nottingham on rail replacement work.
Skills Coaches Caetano Levante Volvo B11RT is seen on Buckingham Palace Road, outside Victoria Coach Station, on a route 450 from Mansfield
The 2019 Championship Play-off Final between Aston Villa and Derby County took place at Wembley Stadium on Bank Holiday Monday 27th May. Over 250 coaches brought fans to the game with over 20 different body manufacturers represented. I caught some of the arrivals and some of those in the various coach parking areas around the stadium.
No matter where I end up, I always seem to bump into a local operator's motor in some form or another, this being a classic example!!
SIL7948 approaches Capel Curig with a North Wales Explorer trip.
Skansen Open Air Museum proved to be a great escape from the city (not that Stockholm is Tokyo exactly) and provided an opportunity to see a bit of rural Sweden in an afternoon.
From Wikipedia : "Skansen is the first open air museum and zoo in Sweden and is located on the island Djurgården in Stockholm, Sweden. It was founded in 1891 by Artur Hazelius (1833-1901) to show the way of life in the different parts of Sweden before the industrial era...
Skansen attracts more than 1.3 million visitors each year. The many exhibits over the 75 acre (300,000 m²) site include a full replica of an average 19th-century town, in which craftsmen in traditional dress such as tanners, shoemakers, silversmiths, bakers and glass-blowers demonstrate their skills in period surroundings. There is even a small patch growing tobacco used for the making of cigarettes. There is also an open-air zoo containing a wide range of Scandinavian animals including the bison, brown bear, moose, grey seal, lynx, otter, red fox, reindeer, wolf, and wolverine (as well as some non- Scandinavian animals due to their popularity). There are also farmsteads where rare breeds of farm animals can be seen."
A look in at Stratford-upon-Avon coach park today (Sat 14/12/2024) and the occasion of the Warwickshire town's annual Christmas Market. Last weekend was cancelled due to Storm Darragh passing through so it was good to see some December sunshine for the 38 coaches that turned up. Plenty of Santa's about but no sign of Shakey Spears.
Seen here in Leeds working route 240 for National Express.
Skill are now running 12 coaches on the network on route 240, 310 and 440
I thoroughly enjoyed the morning I took this photo. I headed to The Skillion at Terrigal for sunrise while visiting there in August/September this year. Thankfully I had taken my gumboots with me and I just stood there while water flowed over them watching the waves coming in crashing against the rocky coast. I watched the sun come up giving rise to some awesome rays. What beauty!
Canon 5D Mark II
17-40 @ 34mm
ISO100 f/16 1/6sec
Lee filter (?0.9 hard )
A 370-mile round trip to see some coaches? Why not?!! An easy day trip to Sheffield today (10/01/2025) to see around 80 coaches bringing participants to the Young Voices Concert at the Utilita Arena.
I was rewarded with a very nice variety of coaches including a King Long XMQ6120C, a Neoplan Skyliner(!), Beulas Spica, Bova Magiq, Jonckheere Mistral and a Sunsundegui Sideral to name but a few. That's a good chunck ticked off my "coach types bingo card" for 2025!
Skills SIL6435 Neoplan N2216 Tourliner C61F coach parked at Derby Bus Station on National Express 440 to London on 20 June 2015.
Originally registered YN57AEC.
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I don’t know what kind of rubbish my camera was playing at when it took this photo – it came out mostly black – but seen on 7.10.24 at Nottingham Road Long Eaton was a new Temsa coach thing that Skills have got.
I'll gladly take random coaches to spice things up a little, even if it's nowhere near the thing I really wanted to see. With one deck and many years less than what I'd have ideally been taking photos of, Skills Coaches smartly turned out Mercedes Tourismo BV71 HZA is seen at the Valley Road/Hucknall Road roundabout in Nottingham on 25.4.22
Seen attending the 45th UK Coach Rally at Brighton in April 1999 as entry #28 is Skills of Nottingham Kassbohrer Setra S250 C44F R615AAU.
Skills S456ATV Volvo Olympian OLY-56 East Lancs Cityzen H49/35F at Morledge in Derby on 23 March 2017.
Ex Nottingham City Transport 456.
Skills YT15AVN Scania K410EB6 Higer Touring C57F coach at Crompton Arms in Ripley on 25 September 2018.
Skills Coaches of Nottingham Scania K410EB6 Higer Touring Reg YT15 AVN is seen parked at Belfast city hall
Skills SV07ADU Volvo B12B tri-axle Plaxton Panther C65FLt coach at Derby Bus Station on National Express 440 to London on 4 July 2015.
Originally Stagecoach Bluebird 54017 used on Megabus services.
A bit of an oddity on South Sherwood Street on 19.2.18 - a Scania N113 doing a service bus run.
Usually, red ALX400s are dedicated to the Unite Students bus run by Skills, but occasionally one of their step-entrance fleet creeps on in place of a red bus.
With an army of Volvo Olympians at their disposal, it seems a bit of a fluke that East Lancs Cityzen W303 MKY put in an appearance.
When I said it's a service bus, it isn't strictly an open-to-all type thing like NCT's 34, but it's still a timetabled service that runs to a route so is definitely not a school bus or private hire run! I'm not sure where this leaves it on DDA grounds, but hey it's an old Scania in a city full of Scanias!
I seriously don't know why ELC put those top set of rear lights on, they look a bit silly.