Evening all,
Had to go to Cwmbran today so I took a look through the fence of the Stagecoach depot. Counted 18 of the Enviro200 MMCs which are for Porth (due in service 05-Dec-2016 I believe) and made notes.
I noted the registrations for 10 of the buses as being YX66 WJA/WJD-WJF/WJL/WJN/WJU as well as YX66 WKA/WKB & YX66 WKF. As can be seen from the attached photo there were no fleet numbers or route brandings applied.
And, before anyone asks, the photos that I got were obtained by pointing my phone camera through the fence! Anyway any attempt to do things in an illicit manner would have failed: the wire in the foreground was connected to what I think was a CCTV camera which was mounted on a tripod of which one of the legs can be seen on the right.
Further to the message by "iantherev" (post #752) all the Enviro200 MMCs I saw were in Stagecoach Gold livery.
The photo attached is of YX66 WJL. I must admit I think they look quite good in the livery and hope that, once they enter service, I will get the chance of a ride on one sooner or later.
Edit: I understand that the full batch will have fleetnumbers 26088-26111 and that the registrations will be YX66 WHS-WHW/WHZ, YX66 WJA/WJC-WJF/WJJ-WJO/WJU/WJV/WJY/WJZ as well as YX66 WKA/WKB/WKF making a batch of 24 vehicles overall. They will be for Service 132 between Maerdy and Cardiff. Curiously enough, YX66 WKF will, I hear, be 26099 but YX66 WKA and YX66 WKB will be 26110 & 26111 respectively.
HTIOI,
Dave