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To mark the final day of operation in Plymouth for First Devon we will be running several classic buses on traditional Western National routes from the City Centre to Yelverton, Plymstock, Torpoint and Modbury.
More details to follow as they get announced
I thought First ran most of their Plymouth services using heritage buses anyway!
ReplyDeleteTarget will now be Plymouth's premier heritage bus company now......for a while i thought field services towing company ran buses as they always seem to have a Target bus on tow...heheheh
DeleteIt has been confirmed that 10 of the 11 new enviro 40ds for pcb will be yellow flash
ReplyDeletePCB have also ordered some green enviro 400's aswell.
ReplyDeleteAnyone know the full list of registration and fleet numbers yet?
ReplyDeleteAlso, 104 is now blue, are we expect 105 and 106 to go blue?
Anyone what is in the spray shop at the moment?
all the B7rles will be blue with woolwell added and the blue enviros will be red but not sure if all of the enviros will go to redflash or some swooped. there is 2 more yellowflash buses being stickerd right now by the looks of it but dont know any being sprayed yet.
DeleteOh interesting, a green flash. Here starts the debate as to where it goes. 40/41 is green on the network map, maybe link to Elburton (numbered 5/6 instead of 40/41 to avoid any confusion with 42s). Or prehaps a Cornwall service.
ReplyDeletecuffy, pcb have not ordered green e400's at all. stop talking nonsense
ReplyDelete105 is blue. saw it in depot today
Morning to you all,does anyone know how many DDA compliant vehicles First Devon have which are going to Cornwall and how Many Non DDA Vehicles First Kernow have to dispose of please.
ReplyDelete3 Solos and 3 Darts plus 38 deckers going from Devon to Cornwall. The B7s may go to Cornwall initially but are not planned to stay.
DeleteThe rest of the Devon fleet is for sale, along with a big chunk of the Cornwall fleet as vehicles transfer in from elsewhere too. 5 B7TLs have just arrived from Manchester with another 5 due next weekend. In total First South West (Devon, Cornwall and Buses of Somerset) has over 100 vehicles for sale.
first bus k803 is bk in torpoint depot seen it sat there today in yard
ReplyDeletesee it last days in torpoint
Plymouth was western national buses many years ago may be if first not bye
western national still be in plymouth
Bradley....how do you know that ALL the B7RLE's are going to be Blue, are you guessing I wonder.
ReplyDeleteI think you need a little bit of a history lesson, Anon 1930. First didn't buy Western National.
ReplyDeleteThe original Western National Omnibus Company covered a huge area of the south west of England, stretching from Penzance to Stroud, although it didn't cover all of that vast area as Devon General, Southern National, Bristol Tramways & Carriage Company, Plymouth Corporation, Exeter Corporation and so on had their own patches alongside and within the WNOC area. When the railways held their holdings in Western National (and Southern National) the company passed to the Tilling Group and was ultimately nationalised becoming part of the National Bus Company in 1969. During the '70s the green livery (albeit leaf green, not the darker Tilling green) and Western National name spread to include former Devon General buses, but conversely Stroud and Trowbridge depots had by then passed the Bristol Omnibus.
When the National Bus Company was privatised in the mid 1980s Western National was sold to Plympton Coachlines and Badgerline Group. This was the era of the Plymouth "Bus War", but Badgerline Group soon bought out the Plympton Coachlines share and peace returned, although some vehicles carried Plympton Coachlines name for several years afterwards. Badgerline Group floated as a Plc, and later merged with Grampian Regional Transport to form FirstBus, later called FirstGroup and now simply First.
The above is simplistic, but hopefully a useful outline and in the correct order.