SOUTHPORT'S BUSES TODAY

GENERAL, FIRST BUS NOTED FOR YEAR Arriva 7654

SOUTHPORT PIER TRAM was noted on Sunday the first.

Out of a total allocation of 68 vehicles the following 1182, 2722, 2803/22, 3682, 3980/1, 6536, 8185 have not been seen this week, (59)

ATLANTIAN nether have been noted out this week

CITYBUS all have been noted out during the week with the exception of, working routes “Schools, 49 and (43), an unidentified Citybus was operating on routes 43/6, and on Tuesday

DART all have been noted out during the week with the exception of, working routes 40, 45, (49), with 1190 working on route 43/6 on Wednesday until mid evening,

FORMER GAS POWERED DARTS all have been noted out during the week with the exception of, working routes E21/2, 49/49A, and 43/6.

Volvo B10M An additional vehicle seen this week was 6524 first noted on Friday working route 300 (06A 026), All have been noted out during the week with the exception of, working routes 47/8, 300 and (49), with routes 43/6 seeing 6535 on Tuesday, 6534 on Wednesday,

DART SLF All have been noted out during the week with the exception of, working routes 43/6 & 49/49A.

B6BLE All have been noted out during the week with the exception of, working routes 42/4, 43/6, (47/8) and (49/49A), with 2801 operating on route E21 on Monday, 2815 worked on route 40 on Thursday, 2813 operated on route E22 on Saturday.

B10SLF All have been noted out during the week with the exception of, working routes 47/8, 43/6 and (49/49A), with 2723 operating on route E21 on Sunday 1 St., 2726 operated on route 42/4 on Thursday, 2727 was noted in service on Saturday, after it’s failure in service last week.

LYNX has not been noted out during the week

GENERAL NOTES/SERVICE on Sunday 1 St Jan service 48 operated by Ace Travel for Merseytravel. A new bus shelter was erected on Friday outside the Halifax property shop on Houghton Street (new stop).

The following vehicles have been noted in Southport working the Wigan services 1280, 7635/6/7/9/43/6/7/9/60/9/81

Unusual visitors noted this week were 1280, 7681 (06A 016)

The following vehicles have been noted this week 009/27/8, MX55WDD/G

SOLO WDD/G operated on routes 105/115 during the week

ALERO GPY was noted in Southport during the week,

EXCELL none have been noted in Southport this week

OLYMPIAN have been noted on a variety of School bus routes during the week,

Olympian Coach has not been noted in Southport this week

Volvo B10M none have been noted in Southport this week

Dennis JAVELIN has not been noted in Southport this week

DART/B6 none have been noted in Southport this week

TALBOTS/RENAUILT none have been noted in Southport this week

FIAT’S none have been noted in Southport this week

IVECO’s none have been noted in Southport this week

GENERAL

The following vehicles have been noted in Southport this week 21115/6/7/8/20/1/3, 33176

Stagecoach NORTH WEST/RIBBLE

The following vehicles have been noted in Southport this week 16327/51, 20133/474/5/764/43/90, 52266/413/4/614

SELWYN Runcorn Noted this week working on the National Express 550 service to London were YJ53VDO

First CAPITOL noted working route 314 to Cambridge this week were 23016,

SMITH (A & JTRAVEL) Banks Noted in Southport during the week was H665TWE,

FORMBY COACHWAYS (FRESHFIELD) Formby J 10KWB was noted in Southport during the week.

TAKE-U-THERE Southport Noted during the week were EY03DZS

Other vehicles noted in Southport this week were

ACE TRAVEL Aintree an unidentified Metrobus and Marshall Midibus P853UCA (06A 006) were noted working route 48A on Sunday the First, HARDINGS Huyton Y152TVV, TIMELINE (COACHMASTERS/TIMELINE) Melling L655ADS was noted on Sunday the First working on Rail Replacement services