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June 2006
ExCel Exhibition Centre in Royal Victoria Docks, East London. It is not lit up like this anymore unfortunately.
It's been about 4 years (three years at time of this photo) since I've seen an Excel and all of the ones I've seen were hatchbacks, never a sedan. And I bet the sedans are more rare than the hatchbacks. GLS must've been the highest spec.
This Optare Excel dates from 1997 and was one of the first five low floor buses to arrive in Malta.
It is seen in March this year on a school journey in Pembroke
L-R: 713 T713NOE, 7205 R408HWU, 685 S685YOL.
Ousted by brand new Volvo B7RLE's at Wolverhampton. these Optare Excels await thier fate at Miller Street garage in Birmingham. Probably to be shipped off to NXWM's infamous 'car park' storage site and stored till the scrap man calls.
685 and 713 were new to Travel West Midlands. 7205 was new to Travel London and came to the West Midlands via Travel Dundee.
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The only Optare Excel that is still operating out of Trentbarton's Sutton Depot 261 Y261 DRC, is seen near Nottingham City Hospital working the 141 on 05-08-16.
Ipswich Buses Optare Excel YG52DGE, that was new to the operator in 2002.
Tower Ramparts bus station 17/05/16
Springfield also operated the Optare Excel on Easylink services, though these weren't part of the deal when First Manchester took control of the services in 2000.
I'm unsure where this and it's bretheren went after leaving Wigan but this one later turned up with Stagecoach, it being allocated with the rest of the groups Excels at East Midlands.
Wigan bus station is the location of R641MBV not long before the company called it a day on stage carriage work.
First Manchester inherited eleven Optare Excels from the slice of Timeline Travel that they took over [Arriva got the other slice!]. The former 218 is seen on Bolton's Moor Lane bus station having been repainted out of 'Tomato Soup' and into the livery adopted for vehicles that didn't confirm to First's standard interior, not that the travelling public would know this. The lower expanse of white would soon be wrapped in the 'Barbie Pink' fade out vinyls which cost an absolute fortune and quickly became shabby looking [even more shabby than your usual First operated vehicle that is!].
6606 would become 60145 in the new national numbering system and the bus now operates out of Wigan depot, which is currently on the 'hit list' of depots to be sold off in the big First shake up of its UK operations.
Former Stagecoach Devon Volvo B6LE P709 BTA (31709) sits with Optare Excel P101 UNH at Wigley's scrapyard in February 2012.
Stagecoach Chesterfield Optare Excel 35006 YN51VHP is seen on route 54 today. A sad day today, for some of us at least, as it is thought to be the final day of Optare Excels running in public service with Stagecoach. However all 6 are staying and being converted to Driver Training Vehicles, so they won't be vanishing completely for a little while yet!
I was exhibiting at the London ExCel Wedding Show over the weekend so took the opportunity for a little bit of night photography.
Metal lift-off cap from a bottle of soda crafted by the Excel Bottling Company in Breese, Illinois, and purchased at Redbud (Do it Best) Hardware in Buchanan, Michigan.
ExCeL London Exhibition Centre opened in 2001 as an international conference and exhibition centre in London’s Docklands, experienced at staging major events.
ExCeL is the largest competition venue at the London 2012 Games and hosting the biggest cluster of Olympic and Paralympic events outside of the Olympic Park.
ExCeL London is hosting 7 Olympic events: Boxing, Wrestling, Judo, Tae Kwon Do, Weight-lifting, Table Tennis, Fencing.
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LONDON 2012
DS52AXF is seen in Shrewsbury bus station in 2003 when newly arrived and was due out on 558 Montgomery service, this was a Optare Excel
Numerically first of the batch of Optare Excels delivered to Travel West Midlands, 684 is seen here in its second livery in Bilston.
17/07/07