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A creative look at the livery applied to the Transdev Rosso "Red4" Buses linking Ramsbottom and Bury Interchange
First day of revised route in January 2013 buses now finish at University Heslington Hall not Fulford Broadway or Fulford Hospital Fields Road (Transdev York Depot)
This service is now unfortunately always operated by Optare Versa
Now in use at York for the 142/3 service to Ripon is Transdev 1110 former Nottingham 530 a Scania Omnicity B42F.
Transdev The Burnley Bus Company "CityZap" seen loading up on Chorlton Street, Manchester on CityZap to Leeds on it's final day of service.
Transdev Rosso's Enviro 200 bodied ADL E20D, 735 YX10 BFE seen at Rochdale.
New to First London as DML 44145
665 PK51 LJX seen in Bolton Moor Lane Bus Station covering for a broken down Optare Tempo on route 1 to Blackburn
Transdev-London United operates contract bus services for Transport for London.
DP13 (T413 KAG) is a 1999 Dennis Dart SLF with Plaxton body.
Transdev (London United) Dennis Dart SLF DP13 heading westwards on the Great West Road, Hounslow near Jersey Road on Friday, May 9th, 2008.
Transdev's new CityZap route has now been operating one week, and seems to be a success.
Here is CityZap ML05ZAP seen on Chorlton Street with Mark at the wheel loading up ready to return to Leeds express via the M62 Motorway
Transdev Rosso 'Trax' SN64CTK 608 seen coming into Bury Interchange on service 467 from Rochdale Interchange
Seen in Harrogate on route 2B
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Transdev JRZ1809 (1809) is a Volvo B7RLE with Wright Eclipse bodywork. Seen in Bradford, JRZ1809 was new as YJ05KHG to the company.
One of two ex-Witchway Volvo B7TL Wright Eclipse Gemini's which are based over at this end of the Transdev Blazefield network and wearing Pride of the North livery is PJ05 ZWL which is at York station on the summer-only X43 to Leeds. This and 2764 are usually based at York but can swap between here and malton as and when required.
The start of July saw the peak season Coastliner timetable come into effect, however unlike in previous years the additional vehicle requirement fell not on Malton but on York. This is in order to run the limited stop journeys X40 and X43 which have been branded as Coastliner Express - but in another change is that the routes have been changed on both counts. Between Leeds and York the services are very similar to Cityzap in that aside from Seacroft they run non-stop not calling at Tadcaster or Copmanthorpe; then the route through and out of York is the same as before along Malton Road and not serving Stockton on the Forest. The next key change is that neither service calls at Malton, running around the town on the bypass instead - which for anybody who has travelled through the town on a morning will know that bypassing it saves a significant amount of time.
The X40 comes off the A64 at the Eden Camp junction whereby it then serves the attraction as well as close to Flamingoland before going on to Pickering where the next new change is, as the new X40 does not serve Thornton le Dale or Goathland and inatsead goes straight up the A169 - which means the X40 serves a different stop to the 840 which stops on the A170; unlike what the timetable states which once again is a misprint (an amazing misprint) the X40 stops close to pickering NYMR station. Once at Whitby the bus parks up for a few hours and the driver has a day at the beach before bringing everybody back again, almost like a coach operators' daytrip..... meanwhile further back the X43 carries on as usual along the A64 to Scarborough rail station, but then carries on to Filey and Bridlington taking the place of the discontinued 845 service which in recent months has been the sacrificial lamb of the Coastliner network when there haven't been enough buses available due to the 845 having been cut back to little more than a shuttle from Malton anyway - now there is only one Coastliner bus per day to Bridlington and it doesn't even wear Coastliner livery normally. This can all be traced back to the decision to purchase Volvo B5TL's for Coastliner after little more than a week with a demonstrator vehicle, and even that was just one of two vehicles tried after the company weren't interested in trialling the ADL product at the time on the Coastliner network. Trials on the 36 route had included products from ADL, Wright and Volvo and generally showed the ADL gained the best passenger feedback including for its ability to climb Harewood bank, whilst the Volvo B5TL was deemed to struggle the most up the hill - yet the decision (out of the hands of the individual depots) was made to purchase the Volvo product; meanwhile the super-light Optare product didn't even get a look in despite the company being a big buyer of other products from he manufacturer. Right from the get-go the B5TL's have had problems with Coastliner from leaking sunshine roofs, then starter motors have failed, and more recently there have been total engine failures as pistons have broken through their casing. This has meant vehicles suddenly being out of use for a significant period of time, and there have been cases where the same 845 journey hasn't run for a week because there simply weren't enough vehicles. The CEO of the company won't even venture to malton depot to discuss these problems, though a further 3 B5TL's are due for delivery in September; and following similar problems with the vehicles of the same type at Harrogate Volvo have now decided to undertake full engine replacements under warranty of most of the batch both at Harrogate and Malton. Obviously this means that vehicles will be taken away from Malton in order to undertake this work, so obviously nobody would then make a decision to further reduce how many vehicles are allocated to the depot because that would be crazy..... meanwhile this extra work means York currently has 4 non-zap double deckers with both 2763 and 2764 being joined by 421 from Burnley (originally a Coastliner) and a vehicle from Harrogate which would initially be 404 (ex-Coastliner) then an ex-Midlands President, then also being joined by 440 (also ex-Coastliner)
BL65YYP Volvo B5TL / Wright Gemini 3 .
Transdev Harrogate & District 3617 - Route 36.
Leeds city centre.
Transdev Melbourne #119 Optare Solo, Optare seen at Doncaster Shoppingtown on Route 282 Manningham Loop Anti-Clockwise
Transdev Melbourne #109 Scania K280UB, Gemilang seen at Doncaster Shoppingtown on Route 304 Doncaster via Belmore Road
Blackburn bus station, Wednesday 14th March 2018. Route branded for services 6&7 Blackburn to Accrington.
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