Transdev (other)

Friday 10 June 2016 (0812) – Transdev (Keighley and District?) 1065 (Y165 HRN) is a Wright bodied Volvo B10BLE which has operated with various Transdev subsidiaries being new to Burnley and Pendle in July 2001. It was seen in Harrogate bus station.

Saturday 29 August 2015 (1207) – Transdev 1109 (YS03 ZLN) Scania Omnicity CN94UB new to Nottingham City Transport (529) in May 2003. It carries the base colours of NCT with branding for services 142/143 which link Ripon with Boroughbridge and York. It was seen in Ripon bus station prior to working the 1215 service to York. (Operator’s licence disc was in the name of Yorkshire Coastliner)

Saturday 29 August 2015 (1207) – Transdev 1109 (YS03 ZLN) Scania Omnicity CN94UB new to Nottingham City Transport (529) in May 2003. It carries the base colours of NCT with branding for services 142/143 which link Ripon with Boroughbridge and York. It was seen in Ripon bus station prior to working the 1215 service to York. (Operator’s licence disc was in the name of Yorkshire Coastliner)

Sunday 25 September 2022 – Showbus 50 Rally, Hertfordshire County Showground Left: Preserved former Transdev Keighley & District T30 TVF, a Wright Renown bodied Volvo B10BLE new in January 2001 registered X568 YUG Right: Transdev Team Pennine 1715 (DX12 OWB), a Wright bodied Volvo B7RLE which had been new to Minsterley Motors in March 2012. Lettered for the Halifax-Keighley service 502 now branded as the ‘Great Northern Line’.

Sunday 25 September 2022 – Showbus 50 Rally, Hertfordshire County Showground Transdev Team Pennine 1715 (DX12 OWB), a Wright bodied Volvo B7RLE which had been new to Minsterley Motors in March 2012. Lettered for the Halifax-Keighley service 502 now branded as the ‘Great Northern Line’.

Sunday 25 September 2022 – Showbus 50 Rally, Hertfordshire County Showground Left: Preserved former Transdev Keighley & District T30 TVF, a Wright Renown bodied Volvo B10BLE new in January 2001 registered X568 YUG Right: Transdev Team Pennine 1715 (DX12 OWB), a Wright bodied Volvo B7RLE which had been new to Minsterley Motors in March 2012. Lettered for the Halifax-Keighley service 502 now branded as the ‘Great Northern Line’.

Sunday 25 September 2022 – Showbus 50 Rally, Hertfordshire County Showground Preserved former Transdev Keighley & District T30 TVF, a Wright Renown bodied Volvo B10BLE new in January 2001 registered X568 YUG

Thursday 8 November 2012 (approx 1400) - Two vehicles of Transdev York seen in Piccadilly, York. Left is what appears to be Alexander bodied Leyland Olympian number 2001 (F349 WSC) (if so it was new to Lothian (Edinburgh, Scotland) as their number 349 in July 1989) and right is Optare Solo 1266 (YJ56 WUW) new to Dunn-Line (Veolia) in January 2007.

Thursday 8 November 2012 (approx 1400) - Transdev York Optare Solo 1266 (YJ56 WUW) seen in Piccadilly, York. New in January 2007 to Dunn-Line (Veolia).

Thursday 8 November 2012 (approx 1400) - Transdev operates Unibus in partnership with the University of York with the main service 44 linking the two main campus sites with the city centre and railway station. There is also a ‘Clubbers Bus’ operating in the early hours on certain days. 2004 (R95 LHK) is an Alexander (Belfast) bodied Volvo Olympian which was new to Dublin Bus (Ireland) as their RV373 (97 D 373) in September 1997. Seen here in Coppergate, York.

Tuesday 29 2001 (approx. 1630) – Not a Stagecoach bus! In April 2001, just a few weeks before I visited the Ribble Valley area, the Blazefield Group had acquired the former Ribble garages at Clitheroe, Blackburn and Bolton from Stagecoach naming the new operation Lancashire United (this had no connection with the large bus company that had once served South Lancashire). At the same time the Ribble garage at Burnley was acquired by Blazefield becoming part of Burnley & Pendle. Stagecoach had owned Burnley & Pendle since 1996. Initially all the buses received fleetnames applied over the former identity but continued to operate in the Stagecoach stripes livery. Burnley & Pendle 942 (M942 JBO) was seen in Burnley bus station heading for Clitheroe. It is a Plaxton Première Interurban bodied Dennis Javelin that which had been new to Red & White in December 1994. The Interurban variant of the Première had been produced by Plaxton primarily at the behest of the Stagecoach Group which had a requirement for a local coach equipped for medium distance service operation. It had bus related features (power operated door, driver’s cab area fitted for pay as you enter operation etc) but did not have the refinements found on true coach models.

Tuesday 29 May 2001 (approx. 1630) – Burnley & Pendle Travel Limited (L949 MBH), a Plaxton bodied Mercedes-Benz 811D new to Sovereign Bus & Coach in July 1994, seen in Burnley bus station. In April 2001, just a few weeks before I visited the Ribble Valley area, the Blazefield Group had acquired the former Ribble garages at Clitheroe, Blackburn and Bolton from Stagecoach naming the new operation Lancashire United (this had no connection with the large bus company that had once served South Lancashire). At the same time the Ribble garage at Burnley was acquired by Blazefield becoming part of Burnley & Pendle. Stagecoach had owned Burnley & Pendle since 1996.