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Notts & Derby Optare Excel 264 - Y264 DRC lays over in Derby bus station before operating route 11 to Ilkeston Hospital.
Seen waiting to start the days work in First's Searle Crescent, Weston bus depot is one of the Excel branded E400s. This example is one of the former London examples used on the service. I rather think this branding is smart and eye catching.
First West of England's LK08 FLA (33508) is seen early on a Sunday morning in the Weston-Super-Mare depot. Excel is the branding used for services with an 'X' that run out of Bristol. It is also used for the X1 between Norwich and Peterborough. LK08FLA was new in May 2008 to First Capital, as their DN33508 to the typical TFL specification. DN 33508 then left London and went to Leicester for use on local services such as the 22 and 54 with some sister vehicles gaining branding for these services. After leaving Leicester, it moved to the West of England for use in Bristol, but was later transferred down to Weston. It is an Alexander Dennis Trident 2/Alexander Dennis (ADL) Enviro 400.
I took great delight in seeing this. It's ages since I'd seen one, and never knowingly out on the street. I was leaving town for home when it caught my eye, absolutely had to get some shots.
A new keeper in 2022, after being with its previous one for 20 years. Hopefully it's now relatively local to me and I'll see it again. From what I can gather, most Excels are registered as Eclats, or Eclat Excels; I can't be 100% which version this is right now.
Inside First West of England Weston-super-Mare Depot we see 47552 SN14FGD photographed in the excel orange livery.
This bus was photographed with permission.
Taken March 2022.
Boeing 727-252(A)(RE) G OSRB at Doncaster/Sheffield (EGCN), the best shot I could get beyond and through the fence. Built for FedEx in Oct 1983 but wfu and stored at Victorville California May 2012, ferried to Lasham Hampshire (EGHL) 2014 and registered to Excel Aviation in Feb 2015 for oil spill operations after modifications.
Quite a nice Excel is this one, which is ironic seeing as it's, well, an Excel.
Safeguard - X307CBT - Brooklands Spring Gathering 2015.
Ive been visiting Scotland for many years and seen lots of changes with the bus scene. This is Strathy on the A836 road heading West from Thurso, a part of Scotland less well travelled by most and away from the crowds ( good enough reason to go ). The further West you head the more remote it becomes and is well worth a visit over a few days. At the time of this picture Rapsons had just become part of Stagecoach, the vehicle is P937SSK a Optare Excel new to EYMS operating the very long ( and infrequent ) service 73 to Bettyhill & Tongue. Afaik the vehicle ended its days with Stagecoach at Chesterfield where the breed seemed to accumulate ( and die ) from allover stagecoach empire. The scene is typical far North West Scotland, in the distance are the Orkneys.
YJ51JXH has been on my radar for sometime, built as a prototype dual door demonstrator by Optare, it saw limited use before being sold to Wallace driver training school based in Wembley, London. Usually outbased near Isleworth in West London it was finally tracked down in June and very kindly posed after a training session.
First Eastern Counties
Scania N250UD / Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC City
36909 - YN69XZO
Seen on Excel service B in Peterborough Bus Station.
A very generic shot, I know, of these stunning new E400Citys, though it was all I had time for in Peterborough yesterday! A day out to be had some day...
Contemporary Dance (Choreography: Ralf Jaroschinski) Teatre Municipal de Palafrugell
Every year some 70 young dancers from all over Europe and even further away pass through a process of audition to join the CobosMika company’s SEEDs program, an opportunity to develop and excel as dance-artists in a professional, dance-company environment involving in-studio training and instruction as well as public performance.
TrentBarton Excel 257 on Black Cat service passing The Newdigate at West Hallam on its way to Derby.
Mon 7th March 2016.
It's been a LONG time coming, but bus drawings are back. Well, back as in I got two finished, but I don't know how soon another one will be coming seeing as how busy with other stuff I've been.
With this new Optare Excel drawing, it means I've completed re-draws of the first four vehicle types I traced on Paint.net back in 2018 for the Route 36 picture; the other three being the Scania Omnidekka, Enviro 400 Scania and Enviro 400 City.
The hardest thing about this drawing was finding a picture of an Excel that I had which was good enough to make a decent drawing from. Since they're quite rare machines, I haven't got as many Excel pictures as I have of other vehicles, and most of those have the windows covered in reflections where I can't see the interior. In the end, I found one which was just about good enough and just tried my best with the interior, although given how little of it I could see it isn't as detailed as some of the others I've done.
The Excel is straight up one of my favourite buses, being an extremely nostalgic part of my early childhood, so in time I think I'll be doing a number of liveries on this. Right now, though, here's a plain white version for you to use. It has the additional lip on the front bumper like some Excel 2s had, and can be deleted off if you don't require it. I may (or may not) upload a second version of the plain Excel without the bumper lip and a front wheel trim, which is how NCT's tended to be. This one is more like a TrentBarton spec Excel, although it has NCT green interior bars... because, erm, it just does.
Feel free to download it, slap a livery on and mess about editing it etc to create your dream Optare Excel, if you so wish. Check the album description for the worms and ignitions - I mean terms and conditions.
(tags playing up so I'm putting them in the description here)
Optare Excel Colour Bus Drawing Blank TR673 Digital CG Artwork Paint.net Colouring Paintable Repaint
Seen attending the Southsea Spectacular Bus Rally in June 1997 is Harris Bus of West Thurrock Optare Excel L1070 / Optare B35F 333 P333HBC, new in April of that year.
Car: Lotus Excel.
Engine: 2174cc in-line 4.
Year of manufacture: 1987.
Date of first registration in the UK: 1st August 1987.
Place of registration: Taunton.
Date of last MOT: 17th June 2023.
Mileage at last MOT: 60,018.
Date of last change of keeper: 22nd April 2022.
Number of previous keepers: 8.
Date taken: 14th May 2023.
Album: Classics in Cardiff May 2023
Former NCT Excel 560 has been sold to Goodwin at Eccles. Seen in their yard receiving attention.
Fri 11th July 2014
Optare Excel X606 XFX seen here in Llandudno whilst working the 09:10 Express Motors X1 Blaenau Ffestiniog service
KaBoogie Optare Excel 2 L1180 NY03 JJF Seen at Grainger Street in the evening, working as a “Party Bus”. This particular Excel was new to Middlesbrough Council as a playbus in 2003 and has remained in the region ever since, passing onto KaBoogie in 2015 where it was converted into a “Party Bus” by Blackpool Design Coachbuilders. An article on this bus can be read here: bdc-uk.co.uk/party-bus/
08/07/2023
Johnsons Excelbus' Enviro 200 SN66WKA works a route 1 into Moreton-in-Marsh Station from Stratford-upon-Avon, about to return with the 12:05 service 2 on Monday 15th April 2019
In Europe the Hyundai Excel was the successor of the Pony saloon back in 1989. The Excel was built until 1994.
A scan of an old photo taken in 1990.
Car: Lotus Excel.
Date of first registration: 31st December 1987.
Region of registration: London Central.
Latest recorded mileage: 58,573 (MOT 25th January 2020).
Also in photo (clockwise from centre left):
Vauxhall Astra mark 2
Renault 5
Ford Transit
(?)
Mitsubishi Shogun
Ford Granada mark 2.
Date taken: 28th May 1990.
Location: Castle Combe Circuit.
Album: Photo Scans
TF-ARD Boeing 757-200 of Excel Airways at Manchester 16/5/04.
Now converted to a freighter and stored at Budapest as N314ST
T124AUA working for xelabus on one of their stage carriage services just outside Eastleigh in April this year. This ranks as one of the smartest modern liveries for me.
Here is Express Motors Optare Excel X606 XFX is seen at the Bangor bus station as it's operating passangers while its doing the route 9 to Caernarfon. This was new to Wilts and Dorset in 2000.