THE SHOWBUS UK ANGLIAN GALLERY
Eastern Counties | Sold buses & coaches
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 AT SHOWBUS international 2009 First Lanarkshire 20507 (AO02RCY), a Plaxton Paragon bodied Volvo B12M, made a return visit to Duxford, having driven south from Scotland. The coach had been on display in 2002 when new in the previous version of First's coach livery, branded for First Eastern Counties "excel" services as fleet number 207. |
 New to an independent Beeline as 605 (F176LBL) the bus was transferred under First ownership to Eastern Counties, becoming 34876. It is one of two former Eastern Counties buses seen arriving at SHOWBUS international 2012. The bus is believed to have been a recent acquisition for preservation but had not been seen in public since for at least eight years. It had worn several liveries over the years starting with Beeline yellow, then the updated version seen below, then a special grey and green livery for Heathrow services, before gaining First corporate livery, the vestiges of which are visible below the top deck windows. | |||
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Beeline's Northern Counties bodied lowheight Leyland Olympians made their home at Bracknell on the Reading - Bracknell - Windsor - Heathrow services 190-192. They were purchased when Beeline was under Len Wright ownership, but 605 sports then new First style fleetnames. It is seen in Reading on January 5th 1998.  | |||
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 Former Leyland National LN587 (WAH587S) got the Greenway treatment and a new lease of life by East Lancs in 1995, becoming LG587. Clearly it lived on in East Anglia after sale passing to Carters and it appears to have been recently acquired by the Colne Estuary Preserved Buses group, who had retored its fleet number so far in 2012. Happily its restoration proceeded and it sports Easter Counties red, cream and orange de-regulation livery once more. |
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