The Last day of First

As promised a bumper selection of photos from myself and others that have been sent in all taken on the last day of First in Plymouth. I hope this conveys the flavour of what was an excellent and affectionate send off. Thanks to all who supplied the photos.

A very proud owner! My favourite ride of the day

I will miss these, just a little bit anyway

Dwarfed by the majestic bridges at Saltash Passage. The 6 and 7 routes were the ones I grew up with and went to school on. It was the Bristol FLFs and then the nice new VRs which led to me becoming a bus spotter.

A faithful friend… and a dog

Not always the best of friends but Plymouth Citybus and First / Western National did manage to get on for most of the time.

Classic bus in a classic bus station – soon to be no more.

The last two generation's of Ferry bus

Southern imposter, but very welcome anyway

Thats me in the front window!

Torpoint wont be the same

Line up of First (plus one!)

 

Somehow the ugobus brand managed to survive right till the end. A brand launched with so much promise but then left to wither away.

A time to reflect on what was and what could have been

There wont be that many photos of First buses and Yellow Flash together as they were only overlapping for one week. Plymouth certainly has colourful buses. It remains to be seen if Stagecoach bring quite as much colour as First did.

Lovely line up for the last ever First run to Torpoint

THE END.