Ipswich Bus Blog: SHOWBUS SELECTION

Monday, 22 September 2014

SHOWBUS SELECTION

First Kings Lynn entered Enviro 400 33813 from the X1 service.

To begin with i must thank the following people for making yesterday's trip possible, especially Chris Speed and Graeme Bessey my traveling companion and meeting the other blogs such as Sam Larke who all made the day worthwhile, for someone who has never been before this one huge event, we were parked right down the bottom end of the field towards the Tank hangar, where we were parked with other First buses from Essex, the Midlands and Leicester, all sections are grouped together for instance a Bristol field and older coaches and preserved buses were down behind the Tank Hangar, all of Ensign's recent projects wear parked outside the next hangar including the brilliant restoration of the Scania Metropolitian, you then had the stalls from all of the companies like Buses magazine and other Model Bus dealers, then at the far end was all or most of the modern and older coaches which were still actively in service, this brings you an rough idea of what happens on the day so following this here comes a selection of what happened to be about 125 photos.

First Essex Basildon depot entered two buses one was this very smart Volvo 7900 Hybrid 69909 BV13 ZB0.

One of the very first pictures taken of are very own Volvo B7RLE 66957 WX55 TZU resplendent with all the correct fleetnames

You have to admit that Ensign have done a superb job on i believe the only Scania Metropolitan in existence in the UK? MD 60 KJD 260P

Being used on the site shuttle was First Essex Plaxton President Trident LT52 XAB in the Westcliff on Sea heritage livery.

Now as one excepts wherever you go you can't escape from the Routemaster but out of the many i pictured i have gone for this one as it is in an unique NBC London Country livery being RML 2334 CUV 334C which plied it's trade at Godstone garage.