THE SHOWBUS UK MIDLANDS BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Trent Barton | Optare big buses
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In the late nineties Optare Excels upgraded the service to Stockport via Manchester Airport as Skyline 199. Trent 211 (V211ENU) is seen here arriving at Stockport Bus Station in June 2000.
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One of Bullock's East Lancs bodied Olympians overtakes another Skyline 199 bound for Buxton.
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Optare 221 (W221PRB) leaves Nottingham City Centre on Radcliffe Line 1. The livery not only adorned similar Solos but also Optare's Hungarian demonstrator at the time.
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 Trent Barton was loyal to Optare for some years. This Tempo, 303 (FD54JYB), is in bright green "xprss" livery in Nottingham's Broadmeadows Bus Station in March 2010. Trent Barton's exemplary marketing gears route relaunches to the arrival of new vehicles and cascading replaced vehicles to upgrade other routes. Timely delivery of new vehicles is therefore key and Optare went through a rough patch and fell out of favour with Trent Barton. |
 In 2011 Trent Barton bought the long established Felix Buses company which ran between Ilkeston and Derby. For years the company had used the "Felix the Cat" cartoon character to adorn the sides of its red buses. However they ran into copyright trouble with the cartoon creators and the cat disappeared from the fleet. The service is now branded "Black Cat" and Trent Barton use these suitably coloured Optare Tempos. Sadly the cat brand is now more. Tempo 312 (YJ07VSG) was seen at the Trent Centenary Party in May 2013. |
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