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14193 has at last joined the likes of 14195 etc at Barnsley after being collected by the very smart Wigley Wrecker at around 0830 this morning from Morecambe depot. All the withdrawn stock is now in the top right hand corner of the yard, they are certainly creating space for the open day and the...

Doesn't look good for 14208 at Morecambe, parked top corner of the yard next to 33171 and the untouched former Magic bus B10M, red steering wheel cover on, couldn't get close enough but from a distance looks to have no tax or disc... if confirmed tomorrow it means that 14196 will be the last...

£4.30 for bayrider daily from £4.10 £13.00 for bayrider weekly from £12.50 Others have also changed, of note you can no longer buy a 4 day explorer, its been replaced by a new 3 day one. Makes more sense for people coming to the lakes/Lancashire for a long weekend over the bank holidays etc...

About half 4 was it...? Was heading back to Catterall yard with me driving. Usual for a Scania to do this every Saturday with one of the Garstang OS drivers as it positions it for one of the first 40's on Monday morning heading back towards Morecambe. The other is the 1730 off Morecambe which...

33163 completes the trio of Marshall bodied Darts now in store and minus discs at Morecambe, all appear to have been withdrawn at the end of last month when their tax ran out. It joins 33171/2 there and appears to have arrived on tow, with the front end off... probably the fastest its traveled...

33172 has joined sister 33171 in the yard at Morecambe. Also one of the former Lincolnshire Roadcar Darts from Preston (33203 I think) has also joined them, 14195 is also back on the death row after being parked down the front for a few weeks, complete with "vehicle in store, do not use" on the...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-12725905 Indirectly relevant as it looks like 2 of the vehicles involved are the E reg ex Preston Bus/Stagecoach Olympians, quite sad really as it was a relatively new company, not needed in these tough times.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33908626@N05/5518991113/ A LOT better! Personally though, loose the green roof and bring the circle up to complete the curve and your on to a winner. Wonder if we'll have a minibus livery too?

There is one in the workshop now, possibly that. 14246 was delivered to Morecambe yesterday ex Preston and is now sat on the back row minus a ticket machine.

Odd... painting Scania's which are only just and I mean just 2 years old...unless its had accident damage and yet only 19031,2,/40 have been painted out of the enviros, of which the others have never received a full repaint since new in 2007. 47249 looks to have had its rear red and blue area...

33171 is now in store at Morecambe in transfer/sale rather than scrap corner. Possible onward transfer to Cumbria or to Lilyhall for further storage, although the last Dart to possibly be transferred to Cumbria from Frenchwood, aka 33143, ended up being rejected and sent back to who it came from...

Aye typo sorry! Seems to be a lot of vehicles carrying "on loan to ribble motor services" signs in their windows, at least one of the LTNs was carrying one before, as well as one of the 346** Darts, which seems a little odd.

20876 is now in dead corner minus its gearbox, its place by the wash has been taken by 20463 - suggesting the top left hand corner of the yard is scrap dealer corner, while the top right hand one is stuff for re-sale. 14195 after around 2 months of occupying the same spot was moved today to the...

Preston never fully ran the C1, think they did one filler trip in order for the driver of the other company to have they're meal break. Preston only HAD (note past tense) the contract for the 5 and the C25, like you say this has been re-tendered and Holmeswood will be taking them on from April...

Will these be 2X/X2 style splits, where the bus, driver and passengers continue onwards to the old final destination, just with a different route number and destination on the front to the one which they started the journey with?

The X3 are not really X at the moment as the only difference is they'd just serve the underpass instead of SW campus, however with it of course being one way it means it has to serve north campus instead. The X3 is only registered as a peak time duplicate and uses a school bus from the 940 and a...

Only ones in service AFAIK are 47753/4 at Frenchwood, working on a range of services. With the additional Solo from Morecambe, this means that Frenchwood has more than enough Solos to cover all mini bus work and therefore less odd Dart workings on to minibus routes should now occur. A 3rd...

Shut between approx 0930 and 1530 daily, obviously to allow peak time movements to and from the city/university.

20463 has moved today into the dead lane, so possibility of it being classed as stored rather than withdrawn is now greater. Red steering wheel cover in front window. 20128 is now also off the back fence and on the pits - so was put there obviously as defective/inspection. 20463's place at...

Think the LED was still in, no big hole anyway to suggest it had gone. 20128 is probably just parked there awaiting work, probably the overflow from the dead lane - 16877 I remember spent several weeks in that spot but is of course still in service. 17019 is hopefully cosmetic, the fluid leaking...