THE HOME COUNTIES BUS IMAGE GALLERY
ALDER VALLEY | Bristol Lodekkas
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 Freshly painted in Reading depot in NBC livery, complete with the badge on the grill is 675 (GRX143D), former Thames Valley D43. |
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 Lodekka 656 (FJB740C) - D24 as was - is seen in the then new Slough Bus Station at night, showing how effective the interior flourescent lighting was inside the bus. |
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 Alder Valley Lodekka 644 (CMO835B), ex TV D12, on route 21 to Aylesbury from High Wycombe in a picturesque setting at Ellesborough in the Chilterns. |
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A rare snowy day at Stoke Mandeville and these two Lodekka shots show the effect on the 323/324 service bus from Aylesbury to High Wycombe.
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The 323/324 was Thames Valley's most profitable bus service, the service passed to Beeline when Alder Valley split back into its two original parts. The Lodekkas had just given way to a fleet of new W-reg VR buses. Later the five Beeline Lynxes were popular performers on the route. When Beeline's High Wycombe operations passed to City of Oxford as Wycombe Bus, competition appeared from Motts' Yellow Bus. When Yellow Bus was sold to Arriva, rationalisation resulted in the route passing to Arriva's Wycombe based Chiltern Rover division, which furnished a variety of vehicles ranging from Mercedes minis through National Greenways to 83 seat Olympians. In 2024 after prolonged competitiom the Aylesbury-Wycombe service passed to Redline.
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