NEW BUSES

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This page was updated on 10th January 2010

This is the first of four Wright Pulsars (1450-1453) which are now in service at Belle Isle, mainly on services 126 & 127.

Thanks to Arriva Engineering Director Phil Cummins for the photograph.

NEW BUSES

for Selby

The first brand new bus to be delivered to Selby Depot for four years, has just arrived. This bus is currently unique - it is the pre-production prototype of the lowbridge version of the Wright Gemini 2 DB300. Eight of these buses are on order, and will be used mainly on service 415 from Selby to York.

The example pictured is fleet number 1500 (YJ59 BTO), which is now in service at Selby along with 1501. The remaining buses in the batch are all now in service.

Grateful thanks are due to Arriva-Yorkshire's Engineering Director, Phil Cummins, who has kindly let us use these EXCLUSIVE PICTURES on our website.

Here is a list of registration numbers:

1500 - YJ59 BTO, 1501 - YJ59 BTU, 1502 - YJ59 BTV, 1503 - YJ59 BTX,

1504 - YJ59 BTY, 1505 - YJ59 BTZ, 1506 - YJ59 BUA, 1507 - YJ59 BUE.

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