First and Last at Eastleigh (5) - 24 October 2013

It sometimes feels as though I am following in the footsteps of others but it is important to me to have my own document of events in the travel industry. Almost everything is photographed these days and I am grateful to other Flickr contributors for sometimes bringing events to my attention and providing information additional to that which I can garner for myself. I have already recorded the brief presence at Eastleigh Works of the new First Streetlites destined for Portsmouth area services. Today was the day to record the presence of some of the vehicles they are replacing. It is reported that these Wright Eclipse Urban Volvo B7RLEs are to be cascaded to Southampton and First Cymru. It is interesting to note the branding which will disappear in the transfers and I wonder if any vehicles will receive new fleet numbers.

There were nine buses in total on this visit and the front row of seven included (from left) 69396/HY09AZO, 69390/HY09AOS and 69395/HY09AZF.

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