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Those were the days

Saved on 02/07/2008

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Those were the days

Life after Plymouth

Saved on 01/07/2008

©Malcolm Audsley - used with permission. Former Plymouth Citybus Atlantean STK126T is seen in the red and black livery of Southampton Citybus 15 yeas ago, looking very smart. I must admit I dont...

Life after Plymouth

Enviro 300 coming soon to a bus stop near you

Saved on 30/06/2008

Just when you thought the streets of Plymouth couldn't get more interesting, Citybus put yet another demonstrator on the road. SN08AAF is a new Enviro 300 and will be in Plymouth for a few weeks. It is planned to try it out on most of the routes so it could turn up just about anywhere. Thanks to Brian...

Enviro 300 coming soon to a bus stop near you

Plymothian Transit Blog Map

Saved on 28/06/2008

I have now plotted most of my blog posts onto a Google Map so you can see specific posts from any of the locations shown. Most of them so far are camera icons where you can click on the camera and see a listing of posts with photos from that location. There is still plenty to add to the map, I am only...

Plymothian Transit Blog Map

Going to waste

Saved on 27/06/2008

Plymouth City Council has made a massive investment in new refuse collection vehicles over the past year with a large number of brand new Mercedes Econics on the road. But there are several...

Going to waste

South Devon Conundrum

Saved on 26/06/2008

Yesterday I spent a couple of hours taking photos at Marsh Mills so of course I was able to observe a number of X80's and X45s coming in. Apart from One Trident seen leaving Plymouth all the X80s were Volvo B6BLE Wright bodied single deckers. Most like this one having a reasonable number of passengers,...

South Devon Conundrum

Viridor Waste Contract

Saved on 25/06/2008

Now that Chelson Meadow is full all our waste from Plymouth is being transported across the water into Cornwall, and its being taken there in a smart fleet of DAF CF Bulk Waste Trucks operated by Viridor....

Viridor Waste Contract

Plymouth Citybus Coach livery

Saved on 24/06/2008

©Brian George A while back we featured the new livery for the contract fleet that used be operate under the Plymouth Citycoach banner. The livery has now been finished off with a new 'wrap'...

Plymouth Citybus Coach livery

Plymouth Crossley

Saved on 23/06/2008

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Plymouth Crossley

Pipe Dream?

Saved on 22/06/2008

I almost chocked when I saw this on my BBC news feed on my homepage: Network Rail is considering five new intercity routes across the UK because passenger numbers have increased by 40% in a decade. The Paddington-to-Penzance line is one of those to be included in a study by the company Link Surely no...

Pipe Dream?

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