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Sadly now departed to that great scrapyard in the sky, but back in 2004 before cascade down to the Ipswich area Dennis Dart SLF Plaxton Pointer 2 43477 R477 CAH is seen in Castle Meadow Norwich.

Further to yesterdays blog i have looked back 11 years to 2004 and compared the scale of First Group's operation to that of 2015, the most important sell off a few years back was the sell of the entire London Operations, by looking back to the First Bus Handbook then you can see how much has been lost.
Glasgow: Cumbernauld and Stevenston, Manchester:Ince, sold to Stagecoach Wigan, Midlands:Sold to Stagecoach,Birkenhead and Chester, Closed Crewe,Newcastle Upon Lyme,Evesham,Hereford,Redditch sold to Rotala and Northampton,Leeds:Cherry Row,South Yorkshire:Halfway, Eastern Counties:Bury St Edmunds, Kings Lynn bus operations only,Essex:Braintree and Harwich,Beeline:Bracknell,Wales:Tycroes,Carmarthen,Llanelli,Maesteg and Pontardawe, Somerset:Yeovil,Bristol:Muller Road,Devon and Cornwall:Barnstaple,Plymouth and St Austell.