Buses in Dunstable - 14 Apr 2023 (P1150024)

Friday 14 April 2023 (1125) – Two of the seven buses (the third and fourth rides) that I rode on today seen at Dunstable.

Left: I had arrived on Grant Palmer Passengers Services 709 (BU57 WAY) working the 1110 service C from Luton via the main Busway and was now continuing to Beecroft to the west of the town centre. It is a Wright Eclipse Gemini bodied Volvo B9TL new to Lothian Buses (866) in October 2007 registered SN57 GMU. Creatively Grant Palmer has applied registrations containing the letters BU5 and WAY to some of its vehicles operating on the Luton-Dunstable Busway network.

Right: I then rode on Arriva The Shires 3894 (KX11 OSF) working the 1128 Busway service Z to Luton via Houghton Regis - a different and circuitous route which initially uses a different section of the Busway system to the north of Dunstable. It is a Wright Eclipse 2 bodied Volvo B7RLE new in August 2011. As I boarded the bus the driver made a point of telling me he didn’t like his photograph being taken. Note that he had pulled down the sun visor.