ARCHIVE WEEK COMMENCING 17 Th MARCH

Route operations in Southport. There is no hard and fast rule as to vehicle type to route allocation in Southport. On the whole routes 42/44 are operated by the Wright bodied B6/10BLE’s with the occasional Plaxton bodied Dart or Marshall bodied Dart, routes 43/46, and 49/49A are operated with anything allocated to Southport you can see examples of most types on these routes although route 49/49A seem to have more high floor buses allocated to it than route 43/6, Route 47 is normally operated by Marshall bodied Darts and SB220 2624, routes 48, 48A & 300 are worked by Wright Endurance bodied B10B’s with the occasional low floor bus usually Wright bodied examples, routes PR1, PR2 are operated by the DAF SB220’s and Saturday only PR3 is worked by the Plaxton bodied Darts, with other low floor buses covering for shortages, the Plaxton bodied Darts also work on any route, and the Olympians work on routes 43/6, 47B, and occasionally 49/49A, although ANY bus can appear on ANY route

Vehicles allocated

Ld AN68 (1) 3980

Vo OLY (4) 3362/63/64/65

Vo B10B (26) 6507/14/5/6/7/8/20/21/7/8/35/6/7/8/44/5/6,

6548/54/8/9, 6611/5/6/7/9/22

Ds Dart SLF (10) 2291/2/93/4, 7651/2/3/54/5/6

DAF SB220 (5) 2624/5/6/7/8 Note, in special livery for Park & Ride, except 2624

Vo B10BLE (7) 2722/23/4/5/6/7/8

Vo B6BLE (13) 2801/2/03/4/13/4/5/6/7/8/9/21/2

Total for service 65, Low floor 35 High floor 26 double deck 4 , low floor % = 53.8

Out of a total allocation of 65 vehicles the following have not been seen this week, 2801, 6515/35/48/622(60)

Ld AN68 Open Top has not been noted this week

Volvo OLYMPIAN all have been noted during the week working on routes 43/6, 49/49A

Volvo B10B All have been noted out during the week with the exception of 6515/35/48/622, working routes 48A, and 300, with routes 42/44 seeing 6546 (08C12 0318 (2)), routes 43/6 seeing 6521/8/58/9,

DART SLF/PLAXTON (FORMALLY GAS POWERED) all have been noted out during the week working routes PR3, 49/49A, 43/6 and 42/4,

DAF SB220 all have been noted working Park & Ride services PR1 & PR2 during the week, with 2624 seeing use on route 47

Volvo B10SLF All have been noted out during the week working routes 42/4, 43/6 47/47B and 49/49A, with route 48A seeing 2722 (08C12 0319 (1)), route PR2 saw 2727 on Saturday (08C12 0322 (2))

Volvo B6BLE All have been noted out during the week with the exception of 2801, working routes 42/4, 43/6 and 49/49A, with route 47 seeing 2814,

DART SLF/MARSHALL all have been noted out during the week working routes 43/6 47/47B and 49/49A,

GENERAL NOTES/SERVICE there seemed to be some disruption to routes 48/48A on Thursday with vehicles arriving together but with at least three buses departing ‘Not In Service’ between 11.00 & 11.30, this was due to a serious RTA on Formby By-Pass by Woodvale airfield (refer. http://www.southportforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50383589)

Arriva SKELMERSDALE DEPOT

The following vehicles have been noted in Southport this week working the Wigan services 3104, 6519/26/96/8, 7613/4/34/5/7/42/5/50

Arriva OTHER DEPOTS

Arriva TRAINERS noted in Southport during the week were

CUMFYBUS Churchtown

CUMFYBUS FLEET Updated 11/11/07 Additional sightings underlined

OPTARE SOLO

YS02UCB, YS02UCC, YS02UCD, MX53FDF, MX53FDU, MX53FDY, VU52UEM, MX04VLU, MX05OTA, MX05OSY, MX55WDD, MX55WDE, MX55WDF, MX55WDG, EH06UNY, MX06ABN, MX06YXV, MX06YYA, MX57CDO, MX57CDU,

OPTARE ALERO

YR02YRU, YR02YRV, YU02GPV, YU02GPX, YU02GPY, VU02TTY, YS02UCE, YR02YTB YU02GRK, YU02GRX, YP52BPE, YP52BPV, YN03UYA, YN03UYB, YN03UYC, YN03UYD, YN03UYE, YN03UYF, YN04XZM,

DENNIS DART

K580MGT, J379GKH w,

DAF SB220 / EAST LANCS. (Were V2/V3/V16/V4/V6/V1/V4/17/V15GMT)

C 12MFY, C 13MFY, C 16MFY, V116LHG, C 18MFY, C19MFY, V116LHG, V117LHG, V735HEO+,

LEYLAND OLYMPIAN

H551GKX, H553GKX,

FIAT DUCATO

W227PHY, W228PHY, W229PHY, Y817LBV,

RENAULT TRAFFIC

L123DDV,

RENAULT MASTER

MX55YRC, MX06FMO, MX06FNE,

VOLVO B6

L238CCW w,

VOLVO B10M COACH

N 40SLK,

IVECO

N447NAE w,

ITALICS = listed as disposed of

The following vehicles have been noted this week YS02UCD/UCE, VU02TTY, MX55WDF, MX57CDO/CDU, C 16MFY, SN56AYB

SOLO route 15 has been worked by YS02UCD, MX57CDU/CDO, and route 40 by MX55WDF (08C2 0318 (1)), MX57CDO this week, MX57CDU was noted passing on route EL1 on Monday, YS02UCD has an all over advert for ‘The Swan’/’West Tower’/’Café de Mar’ (08C12 0317 (2/3))

ALERO VU02TTY, YS02UCE have been noted in the town during the week

DAF SB220/EAST LANCS. Route 40 has been worked by C 16MFY during the week

ENVIRO 200 DEMONSTRATOR SN56AYB worked on route 40 on Monday (08C12 0317 (1)), Wednesday, Thursday & Saturday, it is B37F capacity

OLYMPIAN

DART/B6

RENAULT’s

FIAT’S

IVECO’s

VOLVO COACH

GENERAL

Stagecoach NORTH WEST/RIBBLE

The following vehicles have been noted in Southport this week 16327/9/32/4/5/97/447/642/5/7, 19031/5/40/1/42/3, 52414/613. It is reported that 19040/44 operated in Liverpool on route 14 from Gillmoss depot on Good Friday (Dave Douglas and others)

Stagecoach MERSEYSIDE (nee GLENVALE)

The following vehicles have been noted in Southport this week 34800/19

CLICK SERVICES Skelmersdale worked services 265/285 with R688/97MEW during the week

PRESTON BUS noted during the week working route 2 were 103/10, 218/28

HAYTON Burnage worked the National Express 314 service to Cambridge during the week with MX56HZA

J & S (J.S.T.) Darwen Worked route 347 this week with N186EMJ, S250UAO (08C12 0319 (2)), P353NKH

FYREFIELD (EAST LANCASHIRE COASTAL EXPRESS) Oswaldtwistle Worked route X27 with TJI4823

Other vehicles noted in Southport this week were

COURTESY Chadderton T 3 BUS (08C12 0322 (1)), & A 15YEL, HEALING & BROOKS (HEALINGS INTERNATIONAL) Royton P902WEC, ASHTON (BANK VIEW) Penwortham G519OGP, BON CHAUNCE Out Rawcliffe P984HWT, SHAW HADWIN (TRAVELLERS) Carnforth 6682 WY.

A TOTAL OF VEHICLES WERE NOTED, WITH SEEN AND SPOTS

SPOTS

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(Report version 28 (web), Dec 2007)

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