Two buses in Sheffield Bus Station. Nearest the camera is South Yorkshire Transport 1886 (JHE186W), a fairly standard MCW Metrobus, but next to it the 11.3m Leyland National has a more interesting tale to tell. The bus, 1029 (NTV729M), was new to Nottingham City Transport as 729 and deployed on the pioneering free bus services 77 and 88 in the city, in the era of the Lilac Leopard Park & Ride services. Now it was pioneering in another way, the bus had visited Reeve Burgess and a wheel chair lift was installed in the centre doorway to make it accessible for disabled, as such it was deployed on the City Clipper service as seen here. Later the bus was sold to Road Car as their 2829. It retained South Yorkshire colours and was used on disabled access service Mobilinc.
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