News
from Oxford, High Wycombe
& the surrounding areas
last updated Tuesday, January 5th 1999 - 1600hrs
May we wish all our visitors a very Happy New Year 1999, indeed 1999 promises to be a year of new arrivals on the Oxford Bus scene.
Oxford Bus expects 20 Dennis Tridents with Alexander ALX400 dual door bodywork for the Park & Ride plus 15 Volvo B10BLEs with Wrights Renown dual door bodywork for Cityline and finally 5 new Volvo B10Ms with Plaxton Excalibur coachwork for the Citylink services.
Oxford Bus Company are, for the first time, now taking on Part Time Drivers and for those interested, especially those interested in the bus world, this can be a very rewarding occupation. Just call the company on 01865 785426 and ask for Louisa Clarke.
Stagecoach awaits the delivery of 28 Volvo B12Ms with Jonckheere double deck coachwork seating 72. First arrivals will be 34 and 35 S34-35CWL and the whole batch, as yet without remaining registration numbers will be fleet number 34-60. Delivery of 34 is expected in about 3 weeks time.
Further Stagecoach news is that all the remaining Dart SLFs have gone to their new homes, details previously reported, with the exception of 802 which is under heavy repair and is expected to go direct to Cambus. Darts 707 and 708 are still in Oxford but will shortly go to London. Three more Wrights Darts are expected from London plus 5 Alexander Dash bodied Darts.
From the 2nd January the X50 service between Stratford and Oxford was taken over by Stagecoach Oxford and the first coach to serve the route was Excalibur bodied Volvo nr 20. There will be three return trips per day to begin with.
Further Stagecoach news is that three C reg Leyland Olympians are expected to arrive from Selkent to release the two dual door Olympians presently used on the Brookes service.These dual doors can then return to Witney. Additional minis received or to be received from Midland Red South are MRS 300,6,7,8,13,76,77 which are required to help with increased services including a route gained from Buckingham to Bicester.
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Watch this space for details of the Tube double deck coaches
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Ex London & Country LR24 (TPD124X) a Leyland Olympian with Roe highbridge bodywork
being prepared for service at High Wycombe where it will be fleet number 980.
There will be a total of 5 taking fleet numbers 976-980.
These are registered TPD108, 111, 118, 121 and 124X
Citylink nr 6 is seen at Victoria Coach Station on 30 December awaiting
departure to Oxford.
A model by Corgi of nr 8 is due shortly.
Oxford Citylink nr 60, an ex Shearings Volvo is seen on layover outside
Victoria Coach Station
on Thursday morning December 30th 1998. These older coaches are due to be
replaced by a further batch of Plaxton Excalibur bodied Volvo in the late summer 99.
Citylink 56 (ex 156) having arrived from London awaits its next service
back
to London (Victoria) during late December 1998.
225 seen here on Park & Ride duties on Saturday 2nd January, when it was
a really sunny morning, outbound to Seacourt car park.
Before the end of last year on Sunday 27th December long queues of cars
waiting
to park caused diversions to bus services in the City and Dart SLF 410 is seen
in Cornmarket on diversion to its pick up in St Aldates which is in fact some
800 yards behind the bus on the other side of Carfax !!
King Alfred Running Day - Winchester January 1st 1999
We bring photos of some of the latest participants
in this years FKOAB Running Day
which as usual was held in Winchester on January 1st. This year the day was fine and
somewhat warmer than in recent years !
This Leyland PD2 was returned from the USA and is undergoing full
restoration.
Although not fully finished it performed faultlessly during the day and is seen
here on route 18 during the morning of New Year's Day.
An excellent photo stop was made during the 1330 tour on this Bedford OB
allowing this
lovely shot in one of the local villages.
Finally the 1931 Dennis performed well all day operating a near 30
minute service
round the town routes.
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contains updated photos which are added from time to time.
New photos were added on 16/4/98.
Take a look at our picture report from Manchester,
featuring ex-Oxford buses!
THE OXFORD BUS MUSEUM
An interesting report appears in
latest issue of Preserved Bus
about the recent recreation of Route 75 Oxford-High Wycombe.
Look in our archive pages for our own pictures of the event.
Why not take time out to visit us ?
A VR meet was held on the 22nd March 1998 - and you can see photos
of each VR that attended.
1999 will see this event held once again at the Museum on 21st March.
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