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Stagecoach had B5LH with Enviro 400MMC bodies for London and East Scotland although the Scottish ones are now with Metroline Manchester and Vision Bus I believe and Stagecoach East had the 400XLB MMC bodied B8Ls for the guided busway. I think possibly the only ones are Go Ahead Londons 3 B9...

Does anyone know the id of the Enviro 300 parked in the side yard at Tamworth please and the Temsa on the pits also at Tamworth please, assume it is 4718? Thank you. 1768045272 And also the Enviro 200 on the pits?

CA05GHA was their last one but has been scrapped now. 1757372372 Lawsons,Corby still have ex Metroline MPD dart Y151NLK I believe 1757373009 Let’s Go,Wolverhampton still have their East Lancs Esteem Dart PN07KRZ and LMS,Worcester still have KP51SXY MPD Dart I believe

I think I’m correct in saying that the hybrid Volvos for London and Tayside were sourced because they were needed on a short lead time that ADL couldn’t meet at that time. The Volvos for the Cambridge Busway had to have a certain wheel track to work on the busway and I think ADL chassis are too...

According to BusListsOn TheWeb there were 454 CVE/OBC/OCC Omnis built by the 3 incarnations of the company, most seemed to be non PSV/welfare buses and the Alero had 329 examples again probably mostly non PSV

Northampton Transports Bristol VRT with Alexander bodies, the only ones with peaked fronts and domed rear roofs. Apologies if already mentioned.

In Northampton Stagecoach run route 8 from Blackthorn to Kings Heath via the town centre, Britannia bus also run the town centre to Kings heath part, they take a different route out of town but the Kings Heath part of the route is pretty much the same.

I think DA stands for Disabled access, everything else in the Big Bus fleet was step entrance when the DAs first arrived. VXE I think is Volvo Xetended East Lancs being the longer version of the VLE Volvo East Lancs Visioniair despite the VXE being Optares but still the same body style...

First Essex still have a few B7TLs and Tridents. If you wanted to venture a bit further afield there a some W reg Tridents at Luton, mainly on school runs but see use on normal service occasionally especially during the school holidays. Stagecoach at Northampton still have quite a few tridents...

Does anyone know who is operating the special routes for the Commonwealth Games is Birmingham this year and any information on the routes being operated? I think it is Stagecoach running most of them again but haven’t really seen or heard much about them yet.

I thought the Eclipse name was just dropped to simplify when the 3 came out. Gemini basically being Latin for twin ie twin deck was only used for double decker not single deckers.

Stagecoach East Midlands still have about 20 left at Worksop,Mansfield,Lincoln and Gainsborough. 3 of them even painted in the new colours.

The Vecta has gone now and is I think preserved somewhere 1650564076 Scania/East Lancs Cityzens have got to be one of the rare types left in service now too? Not that they were that popular in the first place. There was one at CL Travel near Royston, one at Orbit Coaches, Leicester and one at...

2way travel of Scunthorpe have quite a few mainly ex Go South Coast and MP Travel have just acquired a second on recently think

I think Red Rose Y359LCK has been scrapped recently, it’s certainly untaxed. Y358LCK is still out and about occasionally though