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    Nottingham 'Bus War'

    The first one has been vinyl'd up. The new livery is in the same style as the Ilkeston Flyer, with the sky blue part being replaced with the current green.
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    Nottingham 'Bus War'

    They're off the Rushcliffe Villager route, so 63 plates.
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    Nottingham 'Bus War'

    There are only two mango branded enviros. Fully branded fleets of new enviros are due for Skylink Nottingham and Mainline this month.
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    New buses for Transdev 770/771

    All of the 08 plate Geminis went off lease with one 11 plate receiving the Pride of the North branding
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    Nottingham 'Bus War'

    Ilkeston flyer buses have been fitted with route colour indicators (like Rainbow One, Mickleover etc) which I'm sure don't come cheap. Maybe they've been put in for a reason...
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    Nottingham 'Bus War'

    Seven of the Mickleovers are headed for the Keyworth and the Cotgrave and the Tempos are apparently being withdrawn from front line service due to their reliability. I expect that the only inter-Trent cascade will be the Allestree solos, with some buses potentially being cascaded to sister...
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    Nottingham 'Bus War'

    http://ow.ly/sJqp30byH1G
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    Nottingham 'Bus War'

    Refurbished Volvos for "the Keyworth" and "the Cotgrave". New ADL Enviro 200s for Rushcliffe Mainline and the Allesstree. New Mercedes Citaros to replace the scanias on Skylink Derby. Supposedly new buses on Skylink Nottingham. There's still 2 Mickleover Volvos and 14 Nines solos (all 09...
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    Bus Routes usually operated by stock with Wifi and USB Charging

    Trent Barton: Indigo, Nines, Zoom, Villager Rainbow one, rapid one, the twos, the threes, the Mickleover, the Nines, Skylink Express, Red Arrow, X38 Kinchbus Skylink Nottingham
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    Nottingham 'Bus War'

    Yourbus have today registered routes on VOSA that would suggest that they're planning on competiting with Arriva Derby on the Chaddesdon corridor.
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    Competition heats up between Transdev and Connexions

    The latest is that Rhys Hand of CityFox fame, and similarly unprofessional with his Twitter comments, is to work for Connexions. Rhys works with Phil Stockley at CityFox, who was due to go Transdev but then he wasn't, there's clearly something going on behind the scenes and it seems to be...
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    Government awards £30 million funding for cleaner, greener bus journeys

    Confirmed that Transdev's will be Volvos and not in a configuration currently in the UK.
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    Nottingham 'Bus War'

    The Mickleover uses 8 buses.
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    Nottingham 'Bus War'

    http://westbridgfordwire.com/trent-barton-invests-3-5m-new-british-buses New bus order for Tremt Barton, Enviro 200s for the Mickleover and Nines. That'll cascade 22 09 plate buses (14 solos, 8 eclipses), I'd imagine cotgrave connection and the eighteen could be up for an upgrade
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    Nottingham 'Bus War'

    If the services / bits of service they're cutting haven't been profitable, given the length of time some have been running, they'll have racked up some serious losses, Citaros aren't cheap buses! The latest suggestion is that once the indigo refurbishments are completed, refurbished...
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    Nottingham 'Bus War'

    One rumour is that they're introducing a new variant of the route (alongside the green and blue routes) to serve new parts of the area. Mickleover has seen more than its fair share of new developments recently.
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    Nottingham 'Bus War'

    A previous poster made reference to Arriva's VDL powered Wrightbuses. The market is generally heading towards lightweight full size vehicles, the streetlite, Enviro 200 MMC and Versa/Metrocity being in favour over Enviro 300s, Eclipses and Tempos. There's only really Mercedes Citaros and the...
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    Nottingham 'Bus War'

    The Mickleover fleet have recently been undergoing g their MOTs I believe which is why a few have been off. The Eclipses are some of the most reliable buses in the fleet actually, however running along a fairly tight and busy Uttoxeter Road and round the estates (with badly parked cars) probably...
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    Nottingham 'Bus War'

    No, they agreed to run them for a trial period, which has now finished. As stated, there has been a disappointing take up. What do you expect them to do, keep losing money?
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    Nottingham 'Bus War'

    From what I remember, a subsidised service can't compete with a commercial one so either yourbus will also have to run it commercially or not at all.

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