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The Stagecoach East Midlands 1 from Skegness to Chapel St Leonards is covered by the £2 scheme and uses open toppers, at least over the summer. It's more a normal bus service that happens to sometimes use open toppers than an an outright 'tourist' route.

NCT reverted to full term time services on 16/9/2024, including the first day of the new pink line 29 to University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus. I had a walk around the campus in the afternoon to see the new service because, unusually, they'd allocated the final two silver-liveried Scania...

Well I may not be 'wise', but I can go some way to explain some of the differences. The first and most boring point would be that different buses were new to different operators, built to a different specification (and possibly later modified by the operators themselves) so details vary. Even...

it's on there again at the moment. Just seen it. edit and now Skylink MMC 120 too, according to bustimes it's 208 with 120's ticket machine

The electric Yutong demo is currently operating in service on the Red Arrow. Here it was half an hour ago heading towards Derby.

I went up there with a mate a few months back and they were very welcoming. They even got some buses out just to show us! You might get lucky like we did. Standing out on the public pavement is fine, they just don't want people walking on the garage apron.

Around Nottingham both Nottingham City Transport and TrentBarton use three-digit number systems, so many numbers could be found on both fleets in the city. Just a few examples of where exactly matching buses might've crossed paths are: City Transport's (now withdrawn) short Scania N94UBs nos...

In the image it looks like it's having a tyre changed with the van in front being from Lodge Tyre or some similar company. So the "accident" is possibly a blowout that needed police present due to its dangerous location

Well just as a brief update I guess, all the vehicles I mentioned at the top of this thread are now withdrawn/scrapped. The only RoadCar Wright B7 (including both single and double deck) still extant is open top FX06 AOE, which will see its (final?) summer on the Peak Sightseer. Both FX06 AOA/F...

With vehicles switching between Notts & Derby, TrentBarton and Kinch on an almost daily basis, do they have to keep changing the o-discs and name on the legal lettering? Or are they allowed to have an N&D vehicle running a Trent route on an N&D disc?

I do this exact journey already using that logic with the Robin Hood card, in either direction. Usually the choice is between NCT's 36 and the tram, but have sometimes used TrentBarton and even the train. Sure, the fare cap is more if you use more than one operator, but it's a small trade-off...

Not sure how many were built, but the Leyland Comet was primarily a truck chassis that also gained a small number of coach bodies (for example https://www.flickr.com/photos/108834608@N06/20093039076/in/dateposted/) One-offs I can think of are: The prototype Plaxton President on Volvo B7L...

That is kind of true for the Lincolnshire ones, though mainly I was looking at vehicles I just found particularly interesting and are currently at greater threat of scrapping. It's nice to know other B7TLs are still in service around the country, but I've never taken any specific interest in...

Yes, that's right. The only Geminis left are the ex-First ones for the open top services. That's the plan, really! "Not in scrapyard" would be the first step. Figuring out what to do with 12 tonnes of potential mistake would be the second step. I was born after 1997! I think it'd take at least...

Recently two particular sets of Volvo B7TLs have been withdrawn; the final remaining FX06 Geminis at Stagecoach East Midlands, and the AU53/AU05 ALX400s at First Eastern Counties. Given the slightly unique aspects to both sets of vehicles I was expecting one might enter preservation, but that's...

I think that's the same bridge that also restricts the Brylaine B5 between Boston and Lincoln to single deckers. However in the morning they use a decker on a Boston-bound journey that starts from Coningsby, thus never encountering the bridge. Looking on street view the bridge is signed as...

I assume it's down to operator specification, but on the Scania E400 diesels that Nottingham have, if the stop bell is pressed downstairs it only rings the bell, but from upstairs it rings the bell and plays a recorded beep sound - presumably to let the driver know whether the alighting...

I've seen this. A couple of the same buses reappeared at different points in the film, digitally recoloured so they looked like different ones. I remember there was one bus that for the exterior shots was an ex-Dublin Alexander Olympian, and for the interior shots was a Stagecoach ALX or Enviro...

Ahh, was more going off the thread title A year or two back misspellings had a thread, but it's closed now: https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/trivia-incorrectly-spelt-destinations.236102/

Stagecoach East Midlands have "Merry Christmas" that alternates with the 'not in service' blind, accompanied by pictures of snowflakes/trees/presents and other Christmas related things. On buses from Lincoln, Grimsby and Gainsborough depots I noticed each Christmas blind was different, which...