Recent content by Porte Molitor

Agree, I remember the Oxford ones and thought upstairs was always more logical than the standard single door ECW bodywork, with the 3+1 seats at the front. Mind you I thought the interiors in general on all of the ECW bodied VRs were shockingly dated, the whole ambiance hadn't really changed...

They also posted this notice in Uxbridge at the beginning of November 2022, where they were proposing to cut the 3 to run Iver to Uxbridge. I did query this with First and their customer services responded that the local garage weren't aware of any cuts . Good to see they didn't go ahead with...

I'm assuming the contract mentioned is this Central Bedfordshire one, backed up with a load of S106 money. https://www.leightonbuzzardonline.co.uk/news/politics/new-leighton-buzzard-bus-service-to-launch-on-coronation-bank-holiday-and-its-free-for-six-months-4061760

Yes that's correct since the contract started, Click has operated out of the Veolia depot just south of the town.

Yes obviously not end to end, but certainly pre-Covid there was a decent amount Henley - Reading and Marlow - Wycombe. Have only been on it once since Covid, and there were still a fair few. Mainly younger people.

Wycombe has looked dodgy for a number of years but hangs on mainly on money made off the back of the Reading routes. It has a lot of students going to Henley College from both Reading and Wycombe, plus a reasonable amount of commuter stuff to Reading, mainly retail workers which is not the...

That's pretty much how Newbury and District came into Reading Buses fold. They shut down all the ex-Beeline stuff with exception of 102 / 1 which was outsourced to Weavaway using Reading's buses. They did however see it worthwhile staying in the town for the lucrative private Vodafone...

I would say something like Delaine Bus Museum is different to this. These buses being sold are actually owned by Stagecoach, whereas Delaine Bus Museum is part of the Delaine Heritage Trust, a registered charity, with the trustees all being from the Delaine-Smith family. So in the extremely...

Yes that is correct. RF22SFZ has been taken on for additional college work.

Carlone now have another former Street Buses Sprinter, RX71TMZ. Seen on their diverted 442 service in Stanwell Village. This one is in Carlone's Heathrow livery, unlike RF22SFZ that is still in the red and white of Street Buses. (Photo is my own)

Good to see. Thanks for update. There has been such a lot of churn from the various fleets, it was hard to work out who owned what

The final route C ran today, 28 October. I see someone on Flickr (Sotonia) got a photo of it. As you can see, Simon was really spoiling the passengers, with L5SLT, a Toyota Coaster from Link Rider coaches of Swanage operating the service. Link to Flickr

Simon Gard has now put WA54JWC and WA54JWD up for sale on via their personal Facebook page. I'm assuming these two will be the final SML buses to go. I'm still convinced we'll see him back operating some unviable route in and around Southampton in the near future. As an aside, who now owns...

Tootbus selling alcohol on board is unusual but legit. As Jammy36 says, the Licensing Act 2003 covers this: 189 (2)Where a vehicle which is not permanently situated in the same place is, or is proposed to be, used for one or more licensable activities while parked at a particular place, the...

The collapse of Minilink continues in typical Gard fashion. No service this weekend on 13A. Facebook link to post Whilst I think everyone is understanding of the owner's current health issues, the whole running down of the operation seems par for the course for him and his operations...