DSCN0915 First Devon and Cornwall SN53 KKC and Stagecoach Swindon V942 DFH (on hire to Western Greyhound)

Friday 7 June 2013 (1530) – St. Ives, Cornwall. The town’s small bus station is built on a shelf into the rising cliff amongst all the cluster of houses and other buildings and the bus parking area is only capable of taking about four modern day sized buses at best. First Devon and Cornwall 42873 (SN53 KKC) a Transbus Dart (a Plaxton Pointer style bodied Dennis Dart), cautiously enters the site. In the background is Stagecoach 33942 (V942 DFH), an Alexander bodied Dennis Dart working on hire to Western Greyhound (loaned to cover the buses lost in the depot fire a short while earlier and carried Stagecoach Swindon fleetnames which had arrived as the 1500 service 547 from Hayle at 1525 and departed as the 1530 service 547 through to Newquay – no time to dwell or park up for too long here. There’s hardly any room at all!