Bonus Note: Mansfield is also a wonderful place to find ex Manchester buses! On my travels I saw Trident Enviro 400s alongside E400MMCs broadly ranging from 2006-2020! (2/2)

Recently made a trip out to Mansfield to sample the small remaining fleet of Trident ALX400s in the Stagecoach East Midlands fleet. Despite the looming threat of the scrappers these buses are incredibly well maintained and are well worth a ride! (1/2)

To be clear this route will now operate under Bee Network (Diamond Bus) from Sunday morning

And that’s all folks.. the final Nexus Move 356 has finished its Saturday duty’s and returned back to the depot. As a local to the 356, it’s sad to see Nexus go but on the bright side almost every driver will continue with Diamond! Hopefully the future of the 356 shall be bright.

In a final farewell to @StagecoachGM Commercial operations 19001 MX06 LOU was deployed onto the magicbus route 143 today to celebrate the end off around 29 years of history. Decent bus but overall nice to see such a large gathering of people plus a lovely @MoTGM Atlantean!

December: The final annual “Christmas Cracker” at MOTGM, sad to see it go A quick trip to Stafford to sample Select Bus and Chaserider E400 Tridents at Oldham for Christmas Eve After doing some A-Level photography in Huddersfield I got a lovely B7 ride in

November: Checked out Harrogates new E-Citaros and managed to ride a B7TL soon to be replaced Mainly spent the Month doing personal stuff like going to Germany on a school trip for a couple of days and concerts like this Charli XCX concert!

October: The annual running event at Wirral transport musuem Skipton bus day with @DansTP987 A very long adventure in the North East hunting down Stagecoach ALX300s/Darts A lovely 3 day trip to Dublin with plenty of buses and trains

September: Checked out the new Volvo BZLs in use on the X5 by Warringtons own buses Enjoyed some of the nicest buses I’ve ever had on rail replacement The orange days event at MOTGM (200 years of the bus)

August: A week away on the Spainish island of Menorca with plenty of coaches ridden Wen to London and finally rode crossrail for the first time, amazing Also ticked off tube lines I had yet ro ride Made a visit to North Wales and rode some great buses with @DansTP987

July: Another trip to Sheffield to ride more of TM travels slowly disappearing fleet SYTT/SYTM running day event with @BenGleeson5 / CW_315 and of course a lift from @rhys_stirling Another visit to Keighley mainly for Presidents Sandtoft Trolleybus running day

June: 50/60s event at MOTGM (200 years of the bus) A very wet ride about on the Peak Sightseer… @DansTP987 was on the train Liverpool, again! PEPs sure are fun Rochdale - Carlisle and back by Northern only making use of the Ribblehad Summer train

May: Riding around Tranche 2s buses which didn’t make it for the start, including first bus evoras My birthday! A trip to the West Midlands over a weekend which involved riding lots of buses and trains Accompanying a driver on by far the most odd allocation on the 356

April: Joined a Freind who was heading to Liverpool for a Uni event and rode PEPs during the event, found 507001 Went up to Leeds/Keighley and rode a mixture of buses Visited the National Railway Museum in York, hasn’t been for a couple years Rode Blackburn B10s on the 22!

March: A trip to Sheffield featuring this lovely 2003 Solar which is now withdrawn! Hunting down the final B7s still in operation at First Huddersfield The start of Bee Network tranche2 and getting up at 4:30am to ride Oldham first franchised bus, Shame it was a SN16 MMC!

February: My first trip of the year to Liverpool to ride Merseyrail PEPs and a few buses MOTGM Morris Minor car show with a private run on the ALX400 A bonus trip to Warrington following Liverpool where I rode Pulsar Geminis A little trip to Nottingham exploring the trams

And here it is my 2024 wrapped… for buses/trains lol January: Rode the MCV BZL double deck electric demonstrator with GNW/Bee Network Incredible tram replacements with B7s everywhere Rode the final ever Stotts 151 service before handover to Diamond

Merry Christmas! The festive bus of the year goes to @ChaseriderBus with this Santa themed and driven Evora!

A little early Christmas present from @StagecoachGM in the form of two incredibly rare allocations! MX09 AOY on the 82 and MX09 AOV on the 350, these E400 Tridents belong to Middleton depot rather then Oldham which makes them quite the unusual bus to see on such routes.

Bonus 4 clips I’ve recorded today, I have to say the electric motor sounds are immense! (2/2)