This bus was one of a number of “Surplus” Stagecoach buses to come North from London to provide transport at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. After the games, Stagecoach generously donated this bus to the GVVT, allowing us to run lowfloor journeys at our vintage running events.
SF04 HXX was one of four Wright Eclipse bodied Volvos which transferred to First Glasgow when Hutchison sold up in July 2007. At that point it gained First fleetnumber 69296 although it also gained local number SV819 which was never carried.
New in late 2004, 32615 (or DV73 for certain “internal purposes”) was part of a large batch of 84 buses, the first lowfloor double deckers for the Glasgow fleet.
This bus spent its entire working life in Glasgow, being withdrawn in 2022 and immediately entering preservation at Bridgeton.
69101 is one of a batch of similar Volvo B7RLE buses with Wright bodywork which joined the fleet in 2006. Towards the end of their life, some of the batch were given pink-based route branding for service 9, which 69101 still wears.
This VanHool TDX29 Astromega was the first double deck coach to be fitted out as a convertible sleeper for Scotland to London Megabus Gold sleeper services. After being relegated to more prosaic coach work, its final service role was on the luxurious Edinburgh sightseeing service, superbus.com for which it was reregistered A2 XXH, although it has now reverted to its original registration.
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- Registration
- LX51 FOF
- Chassis type
- Dennis Trident SFD138BR2
- Chassis number
- SFD138BR21GX21695
- Body type and seating
- Alexander ALX400 H43/19D
- Body number
- 0065/89
- Date new
- November 2001
- Original operator
- Stagecoach SELKENT (TAS524)