THE UK MIDLANDS BUS IMAGE GALLERY
Oxford Bus Company | red doubledeckers
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 During 2010, Oxford once again became home to the doubledeck bus - after many Mercedes Citaros - 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 City of Oxford 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 is 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. |
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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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 Alexander Dennis Enviro400 demonstrator, SN59AWW, spent around a year with Oxford and was painted into fleet livery and gained fleet number 900 as it would not fit under the infamous Botley Road Station Bridge. It is seen on the 2B in June 2016.
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 Scania 231 (WF10OXF) heading for Kidlington in June 2010. |
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