Wednesday, 24 August 2022

History of Yellow Bus Arrivals

Following our earlier post regarding the acquisition of four ex Yellow Buses from Bournemouth, Ken Aveyard contacted me concerning his interest in observing where the operator's buses were going to. Having worked in the area's transport industry for a number of years he was able to supply some history regarding the foursome.



'The four were originally new to Rotala's Wessex operations in Bristol, where I photographed one of the ones pictured BX62FOJ back in 2015. They later transferred to Preston Bus and when they were purchased by Bournemouth in 2019, with original fleet numbers 126 - 129, three of them ran for a while in Preston colours (126 went straight to the paint shop).'



'Please find attached BX62FOJ in Bristol, and in Bournemouth in Preston colours. It later gained the Yellow Buses livery with blue branding for the 2 (as shown in your picture) in 2019, and was renumbered to 5072 in 2021.'

Thanks for the information and photos Ken.

Roy
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  1. Anonymous27 August 2022 at 10:12

    Hi, there is a reason one went straight to the body shop, it was BX62FNV and it’s because it had quite a serious front end crash within days of entering service with Yellow Buses, you might notice that the front end on this bus is slightly different to the other 3 in the batch, The headlight surrounds are even different

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