Posts Tagged ‘ACE Travel’

Review of 2011

2011 was quite an important year for bus services on Merseyside, with many new deliveries to various operators, many withdrawals of older buses, the departure of one of the local operators and as already noted the many many rent-a-buses and demonstrators used. I shall try to summarise the major events of 2011 below! The first Continue reading →

More hired in buses, contract changes and new deliveries!

Since the last blog update there have been yet more contract changes resulting in further buses being hired in with some operators, due to the unexpected decision by Supertravel/Homes Hames Travel to end all of its stage services with immediate effect from 13/10/2011. Emergency contracts were let to various operators for the services previously operated Continue reading →

More Merseytravel Contract Changes!

More Merseytravel route contracts have changed between operators today, amongst the changes inthe Liverpool area being Sunday AM route 161 (Liverpool – Rainhill) moving to ACE Travel from Halton Transport, Sunday 168 (Aigburth – Bootle) moving to ACE Travel from Arriva (Peoplesbus still operate alternate Sunday diagrams as before) and routes 173/4 (Belle Vale – Continue reading →

Supertravel Contract Changes

From Monday 11th July 2011 large number of routes previously operated by Supertravel changed to different operators with very short notice. Those that remain with Supertravel are all transferred to the Home James Travel licence, following various changes at the company. Route 163 (Belle Vale – Halewood) is now operated by HTL Buses, along with Continue reading →

HTL Solos and more Topless Tourist Buses

HTL Buses have received at least 3 new Optare Solo M710SEs during the last few weeks of May and I was able to get a photograph of one of them today! Seen in practically the same spot as the white Solo HTL had on loan a few weeks back is YJ11 EKL. Others similar buses Continue reading →

New Buses Update May 2011

As 11 reg has now been around for a few months now I will try to compile a quick list of all newly delivered buses to operators in Merseyside and the surrounding areas. I will also later compile a list of acquired vehicles which will be in a separate post in a few days. Hopefully Continue reading →

Topless in Liverpool…..and other other bus photos!

Another unseasonally warm day was had in Liverpool again today so I have been out getting some photographs! The open top tour buses in Liverpool continue to do well, even on weekdays during the good weather and at least three were out in force today. ACE Travel had Volvo Olympian/ELC Pyoneers T01 S848 DGX and Continue reading →

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