THE LONDON & HOME COUNTIES BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Carousel Buses Sold buses and Pre-owned buses
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 During 2010, Oxford once again became home to the doubledeck bus like this Scania N230UD 217 (FF10OXF) with Alexander Dennis Enviro400 bodywork, outside the Railway Station and similar to the blue buses delivered in 2009 for Brookes Bus. The City Council had forced a deal between Oxford Bus Co and Stagecoach Oxford to reduce the frequency of competing services and make good the shortfall in capacity by using doubledeckers. Whether the general public are as enamored of the reduced frequency services is another matter. The deal was tempered by introducing interavailability of ticketing between the operators, including Thames Travel. It was certainly preferable to another Council crackpot scheme which suggested terminating all city services short of the centre, including express routes, and for passengers to transfer at an interchange to high capacity artics to access the city centre. Undoubtedly one of the successes of deregulation, Oxford's development of customer oriented services is always at risk from "we-know-better" politicians, aided and abetted by power hungry, empire building council officers. |
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 Enough moaning, we can at least enjoy this nearside view of new Scania 220 (JF10OXF) in the city is June 2010 and speculate what Oxford might have bought instead to renew its city singledeck fleet, had the politics not interfered. Some of these buses were transferred to Carousel by January 2017 as the Tridents, like 101 above, ceased to be valid for disability access under new regulations from the start of the year. Though the buses involved, 214-222, were effectively in the Carousel two tone red livery they were all treated to an all over repaint in simply red early that year. |
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 This slightly blurred shot out of the window of an Enviro400 on the Cowley Road shows Scania 222 (LF10OXF) with a Stagecoach hybrid all Alexander Dennis Enviro400H, which they used to replace their city fleet of MAN/Alexander ALX300 singledeckers as part of the city's reduced bus arrangements. |
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