New and foincy, just as it should be.
If that was intended to be read in a Bugs Bunny voice, then that's exactly what I did :P
Went to Nottingham for shopping and ended up doing more bus spotting than shopping. In fact, I did a LOT of bus spotting as there was lots to see.
Saw an E200 branded for the 87/88 on a 40. Typical case of the branded bus ending up on a different route.
Then saw another one on the 47. Makes me wonder what colour bus was on the purple line today if these were off on different routes...
Rare allocation of a diesel powered Enviro 400 on the 27, which is run by gas powered E400 Cities. Prior to that it had Omnidekkas which were hardly ever substituted for spare buses. The 41 is usually run by Solo SRs but E200 spare buses aren't that rare.
Surprise news for Nottingham is the final two Omnicities which have been on borrowed time for the past year or-so have been given new fleet numbers for the second time in recent months and look like they will be staying longer than first expected. This bus has previously been numbered 518 and 301 before gaining number 299 the other day.
Another E400 City bio-gas bus temporarily replaced by one of the oldest double deckers in the fleet now. Won't be possible for much longer as every pre-2010 bus is being withdrawn because they can't convert them to Euro 6 (except possibly those two Omnicities). This one will probably be gone by Christmas.
A service renumbering, vehicle and livery change for the Pathfinder route has grouped it with other lilac line services, using mid-life E400s converted to Euro 6.
Another service change means council-supported P&R buses have been replaced by alterations to existing NCT route 44 plus brand new route 50. This is my first ever photo of a bus on route 50.
The bio-gas E400 Cities really were having a bad day, as a few of these 25Bs were being covered by Omnidekkas. 903 is from a batch of five for route 44 which uses this road in the city centre, so it is revisiting part of its old route in this shot. 901-905 are the only Omnidekkas NCT have on '11' plates.
A nice surprise later on was discovering an Omnidekka had cropped up on my local route - also in place of an E400 City bio-gas! Even better is that this one has an N270UD chassis, so it is louder and better-sounding than the dull-sounding N230UD diesels and N280UD gas buses. Shame I didn't get to ride on it.
(yes, this was long...
...but I can't get this 'spoiler' thing to work)