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NYSW WSX shuffles around MC yard to retrieve a single covered hopper. WS3 was working the other end of the yard, preparing to head west.
From 28th February First Bus London took over services operated by RATP-DEV Transit. In this view we find VMH45346 LJ17 WSX on the 452 at Queen's Circus, Battersea Park. Monday 31st March 2025. DSCN62013.
Volvo B5LH - MCV EvoSeti 10.5m.
Photo (c) GJW 2025.
As for ex-London Tridents flooding smaller operators, here’s the one notable exception. As far as I can tell T371 FUG is the sole survivor from a batch of ALX400s new to Grimsby Cleethorpes in 1999, and has soldiered on as M666 BCT at Black Cat Travel for many years now. I haven’t seen it for a few months but presume it survives into 2025... here it was crossing Pelham Bridge in Lincoln on 12.6.24
Black Cat *was* Trident central as they had many different examples, but from what I’ve been able to gather it appears they went through a spate of binning off LOADS and can’t have many deckers at all left now. Gone are:
J666 BCT, the dual door ex-London ALX400, being dismantled for spares
N666 BCT, the T reg centre staircase President, scrapped
L666 BCT, the Xelabus green ALX400 that was formerly T3 WSX, sold
P100 JJH, an ex-Lothian President I don’t think they ever ran in service, scrapped (and they had a 2nd one which is being broken for spares)
I think the above is correct, however they keep changing registrations between different buses so it’s possible two or more are mixed up! By my reckoning that leaves them with:
R666 BCT, the red/cream/orange liveried President
V190 MEV, another ex-London ALX400
M666 BCT, the ex-Grimsby Cleethorpes Euro 2 ALX400
Possibly still one of the ex-Blackpool East Lancs Myllennium Lolynes?
A disappointing turn of events for the Tridents.
WSX working Ber Plastics on the Pompton Branch, crossing the diamond in dusk lighting. Some green is starting to show from the former BN SD45.
Egertons Scania 124G heavy recovery wagon set out on another job after refueling in Stechford, Birmingham close to its depot.
Xelabus Scania Omnidekka J17 XEL (548) former Nottingham YN04UJV and T3 WSX (525) former number LG02FDV , Dennis Trident / Alexander ALX400. new on Aug 2002 and originally with London United and then Preston Bus.
Dennis Trident, Alexander ALX400 (H43/25F)
Xelabus, Eastleigh
Barton Park, Eastleigh
01 December 2023
(LG02 FDP)
UK51 WSX : Scania 164G 580 10x4 Recovery Truck of Egertons Recovery based in Mobberley, Cheshire, but with locations around the Country.
Truckfest South West,
Royal Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet.
04-09-2021
DA70 WSX
2020 MAN TGX 26.470 GM
Brit European Transport, Radway Green, Cheshire (on contract to JCB)
M40 Junction 10, 13 May 2021
One of two VanHool T9 Alizée bodied VDL (DAF) SB4000 wheelchair-accessible coaches new to Arriva The Shires (for Greenline work between Luton and London) which are now operated by Just travel, FSK 469 has been given fleet livery and one of the companys' ageless plates. New as YJ55 WSX, this has come from Lewis's coaches of south Wales where it operated a service between Cardiff and Aberystwyth. Seen in York Museum Street on a private hire, the rear numeric display is a nice touch.
UK51 WSX : Scania 164G 580 10x4 Recovery Truck of Egertons Recovery based in Mobberley, Cheshire, but with locations around the Country.
Truckfest South West,
Royal Bath & West Showground, Shepton Mallet.
04-09-2021
Fayetteville, Texas motto:
"Fayetteville, the way Texas used to be!"
All but hidden in a crook of Texas State Highway 159 between Bellville and LaGrange, tiny Fayetteville is one of those picturesque little villages whose tree shaded residential streets meet at the town square where merchants still do business from 19th century storefronts. On festival and feast days, ethnic dancers perform on the lawn beneath the courthouse clock. Historic Town Square with authentic Courthouse. Built in 1880 at the cost of $800, it is a two-story precinct courthouse in which the old jail still exists on the second floor, complete with leg irons attached. The structure is mostly mortised with few nails used, and opened for its first court on February 17, 1881. A calaboose was added in 1887 at the cost of $11. In Texas a road from Old San Felipe to Bastrop via Fayetteville already existed by 1833 and after the Texas Revolution, Fayetteville, with its tavern or stage hotel and mercantile stores, was a stop on that stagecoach road. The Munger family was one of earliest settlers and had a Mercantile Store on the Square in Fayetteville as early as the 1830s. (It is the current "Red & White Store.") Dr. A. P. Manley maintained an office and a stock of medicines.
Did you know that Fayetteville... Has one of the oldest continuously serving Post Offices in Texas - active since 1850. Has applied for status as an Historical District. (There are 345 structures in Fayetteville on the National Register of Historic Places. Fayetteville's Town Square was designated as a Historic Historic District by the Fayetteville City Council.) Was the first stop in the U.S. for arriving Czech immigrants. Has a 19th century courthouse with jail cells on the second floor. Is the birthplace of the Baca Band. Is one of the smallest towns in the world with a working 4 faced town clock (The clock still strikes the hour and the half-hour). The Fayetteville Texas Courthouse Square bandstand gazebo was built in 1932. Included on the square are durable benches with plenty of vacant seats and the bandstand is kept freshly painted and in good repair. The four-faced town clock erected in 1934 by the Fayetteville women's "Do Your Duty" club, in advance of the Texas Centennial. The two granite markers on the west side of the Square commemorate Fayetteville's founders (erected in 1936) and the 1937 sewer project.
See: www.fayettevilletxchamber.org/walking_tour.php and
www.fayettevilletxchamber.org/wsx_event_calendar.php and www.fayettecountyhistory.org/fayetteville.htm and texasescapes.com/CentralTexasTownsSouth/FayettevilleTexas...
Botchergate, Carlisle, Cumbria (29/08/22)
This photo was published in the October 2022 edition of Classic & Vintage Commercials magazine
(35/52/2022)
Ex-Blackpool Myllennium Lolyne T666 BCT was tracking on the Black Cat 2 on 13.3.24, and I didn't think much of it as I've seen that one before. However, I got a nice surprise as it turned out to be completely new fleet member T3 WSX just using T666's ticket machine! I didn't even know they had this.
Sporting the colours of former owner Xelabus, this 9.9m ALX400 bodied Trident was new to London United as LG02 FDV. After London it got around a bit, ending up at Wessex Connect in Bristol, where it gained the 'WSX' plate, before going to Preston Bus where it stayed until around 2020/21, and then all the way back down the country to Xela! In September 2023 it went to Cambridge Bus & Coach, which has a nigh identical livery to Xelabus and so didn't repaint it, but evidently they didn't keep it long.
I don't really know what's currently happening with BCT's decker fleet because I so rarely see them. N666 tracks on the 2 often, and I know I need another picture of it because it's got a grey bumper now, and I've seen J666 recently, but aside from that I've got no idea. Haven't seen the Hong Kong Olympian for a couple of years so presume that's gone?
Tentercroft Street, Lincoln
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Reg: LJ17 WSX
Vehicle: Volvo B5LH MCV EvoSeti
Operator: -
Fleet: -
KBZ 2476 (ex YN55 WSX)
2005 Volvo B7R/Plaxton Profile C70F
Marshalls Coaches, Leighton Buzzard
Buckingham, 9 November 2021
Skelton Coaches have sent buses number 2 and number 3 to York Racecourse this afternoon... both Volvo B12B Plaxton Panther coaches, ESU 263 was new as WX51 AKY and PDZ 6270 was new as GU52 WSX ex-Stagecoach.
At York Races there's usually strong representation from certain coach operators, and Skeltons is one of them. Today there was a 4-coach consignment, however an interloper had broken up what would have otherwise been a neat 4-way arrangement so I've just gone for the three that were together... Volvo B10M Plaxton Premiere 789 GTD, new as N217 HWX, is number 9 in the Skelton Coaches fleet - the oldest of the three here being sandwiched by newer Volvo B12M Plaxton Panther coaches ESU 263 number 3 (new as WX51 AKY) and PDZ 6270 number 4 (new as GU52 WSX ex-Stagecoach)
I remember, it was the first half of 1970. I lead the record section of Radio Kaibel until August, then the shop closed because they teared down the whole house for rebuilding. So i'm very sure that this record was available in spring or summer 1970 (not as Wiki tells in November) The reason was, I ordered 10 copies of that pic disc, and I quickly sold them (we were the earliest prog rock shop in our town Mannheim). Within a week I got all ten records back. My customers told me that the quality was miserable. Too much crackles. This record was produced from METRONOME Records Germany (for Warner Bros) for the european market as you can read on the disc. Then came the normal vinyl disc in mid 1970 distributed through Telefunken Decca - not yet WB Kinney Music. The Pic No. was WS X 3012 !
One of two VanHool T9 Alizée bodied VDL (DAF) SB4000 wheelchair-accessible coaches new to Arriva The Shires (for Greenline work between Luton and London) which are now operated by Just travel, FSK 469 has been given fleet livery and one of the companys' ageless plates. New as YJ55 WSX, this has come from Lewis's coaches of south Wales where it operated a service between Cardiff and Aberystwyth. Seen leaving Tadcaster Grammar School.