sorry for the lack of updates. Here are some pics for you.

goes to...
Cotmanhay
Ilkeston
Trowell
Wollaton
Nottingham

every 12 minutes, air-con, wooden effect flooring and leather all come standard.

Saturday, 8th August saw the end of the Calverton Connection as we know it, here I have included some of my personal favourite photos of the route in its red guise before the black transformation, some could say it went black to the future, but I don't make such cheesy comments.... Here we go, this is it.

Nottingham - Arnold - Calverton - every 15 mins. Uses the best buses on the market; the Mercedes Benz Citaro. Lovely buses, popular drivers a very successful service. You're in really good company indeed.

Royal Derby.

2009, the year of the nines - new buses, new style.


9.1 Mansfield - Sutton - Alfreton - Ripley - Derby
9.2 Mansfield - Sutton - Alfreton - Ripley - Derby
9.3 Mansfield - Sutton - Pinxton - Alfreton - Ripley - Derby (hourly)
all photos of this highly successful group of routes will appear here.

Nottingham Broadmarsh - QMC - Dunkirk - Beeston Rylands - Beeston - Chilwell - Stapleford - Stapleford Melbourne Road.

every 30 minutes, Monday - Saturday.

Route covered by the 20 on Sundays.

Service uses 4X ex Rainbow 5 Scania powered Wright Solar single deckers.

These are, in my opinion, a selection of my better photos from the archived collections of brand names, images and routes that are no longer with us.
It is intended that these photos are here to 'hold back the years' so any feedback received is welcomed. It's also a way to keep the site tidier as well as a good way of showing a development of skills of my photography as time has passed by.

Enjoy the photos.

Nottingham - Mansfield - Chesterfield

every 30 mins

Nottingham - Mansfield

every 15 mins

Leather seats are the norm on this service which links the above places up... pronto.

'the really posh way in to the City Centre' Leather seats, air conditioning, wood effect flooring all come as standard on this service which links up Derby City Centre, Royal Hospital and Mickleover, every 7 - 8 minutes throughout the day.

In March 2009, Trent Barton transformed the image of the15 to Ilkeston and Old Sawley, via: Long Eaton, Briar Gate, Stapleford, Sandiacre and Trowell. The livery remains the same but, there's extra space, a million times more style and a better travelling experience for all with leather seats and air conditioning as standard.

Buses operate every 20 mins, hourly evenings and Sundays.

This little piggy used the Villager from Derby - Burton via the Villages; taking in some beautiful scenery enroute, including Tutbury castle, Hilton and very many more places en route.
At night time, there's a NightFlyer which basically operates on demand/request to anystop en-route, taking the quickest route there, this is highly successful.
Recently newer, brighter/bigger buses were put on to this route, which makes it even more of a 'really good link'.

613 is the Horse bus
614 is the sheep bus
615 is the Duck bus
616 is the Cows bus
617 is the pig bus
619 is the Rabbit bus

Photos of Notts and Derby's unibus operation on the graduation day shuttle.

Former Rainbow 5 Tempo 306 now serves the quick and direct route in to Derby in this smart two tone blue livery.

In November, it was decided that the Rainbow 5 name would be axed in favour of indigo, because more people refer to the colour of the bus than the name. It also has more commercial potential because the company can now focus more on the word 'go' and produce better advertising techniques, than the Rainbow name which has run its course. Here we have a selection of photos, which I personally feel are my best of R5 vehicles. Enjoy.

Couple of other pics thrown in here too.

Photos of the recent brand new trent barton buses in service.

From the 9th November 2008 travel between Long Eaton and Nottingham is to receive a mega exciting overhaul.
Out will go the current faded purple/indigo coloured Scanias in favour of the new:-
buses
name
and interior.
This combined is to hope to provide a better travel experience in to and out of Nottingham, Loughborough, Derby, Long Eaton and Sawley amongst other places.
Trent Barton made the enormous investment in the service as a reward to many years of loyalty from its massive passenger base.

PJ.

New look photos of the Allestree service which links Allestree with the University and the City Centre every 7-8 mins, buses operate on a BLU and RED circular basis, opposite ways around Allestree.

Notts and Derby provided shuttle buses to and from the Download Music Festival at Donington Park 2008. The festival were great and Notts and Derby provided an excellent service to get thousands of people there and even more home!
Kinchbus also provided shuttle support, with some journies to and fro Loughborough too.
Also, Skylink Derby Loughborough was heavily used too.

In 2008, trent barton decided that it was time that flagship service red arrow, which links Nottingham and Derby, every 15 minutes needed a makeover, both inside and out. This was despite the fact that, the coaches were just under 4 years old, the image needed refreshing. So out went the drab interior, in came leather, WIFI, sexy red curtains and a refreshed image on the outside.
Any older liveried examples you wish to view can be found in the Archived Red Arrow gallery titles.

Photos of Tempos 317 and 318, featuring Trent Barton's and Best Impressions' latest interior design interior: Leather seats, Air Conditioning, electronically operated destination equipment amongst other things.
They were intended for the Calverton Connection, but were instead launched on to "the 21" in September 2007, making the 21 unrecognisable overnight, with the bright interior and unique livery.
The route itself operates between Nottingham (Broadmarsh) and Ilkeston via: QMC, Bramcote, Stapleford and Kirk Hallam. It is the only (direct) bus linking Kirk Hallam with Nottingham and QMC (except the 20 which operates on a Sunday only basis.)
Photos of the 21 taken before September 2007 can be found in the ARCHIVE ROUTE 21 gallery title.

Photos taken of the plum based liveried Optare Tempos. With luxury leather seats, air conditioning and a quick journey, people in Keyworth have never had buses so good! Definitely worth a trip, if you have an hour or so to spare.

It was the last day for regular driver Paul Williams on the Tesco free runs before the service transferred back to Derby (from Ashfield) so I decided to go out and get some photos, Many thanks to Paul who allowed me to get a proper photo shoot of the beast which is 110, unfortunately Derby took back 110 in the afternoon and we had to make do with 275 for the last EX, (see photo in Notts and Derby Traction section.)
It was an absolutely fantastic experience. Please enjoy the photos.
P.

Here photos of anything taken on Route 11/12 from Kinchbus after 2nd July (relaunch date)

Photos moved soon!

Visit:
Derby, Ilkeston, Heanor, Langley Mill, Eastwood, Kirkby, Sutton Junction, Sutton, Mansfield On your new luxury Black Cat Tempo buses.
Photos of these brand new high specification buses will appear in this gallery title from now on.
Whether you need to make the small connection between any of the 2 above points, or if you have a spare 2 hours to do the full Mansfield - Derby route; it is definitely worth travelling on these buses!
Photos in this section are taken after the relaunch, in May 2007, for photos before this time please see Archive: Black Cat.

If you need to make that fast connection between Derby and Burton or the other way around, X38 is the way to travel. With leather seats, arm rests and Air Conditioning, it's certainly the most luxurious way to travel in to town. Tempos 307&8 YJ07 VSA/C are branded for the route which was recently extended to every 15 mins as well! So, if you ever need to make the connection, or have the time, I'd definitely reccomend a trip on the X38!
Photos in this section are taken after April 2007, for photos of the X38 taken before that date, please see: ARCHIVE: X38.
Thanks,
P.

Photos by myself, and submitted to me by others.

Some photos taken of the depot signs, and misc shots in and around the depots that don't fit in to any other category.

Interior photographs of Wellglade buses, some of their finest interior decor on display here.

Photos taken of Green Tempo's 301-5, they run from Nottingham - Bingham fast, with a frequency of 15 mins.

Notts and Derby subsidery. These are on Unibus services, or spare in the yard - NOT whilst unibus' vehicles are covering for Trent/N+D work. These will be in the correct gallery titles.

THis collection includes photos from when the route was previously known as the 125.

This is the last route that I had left to photograph. The Harlequin; goes from Derby - Heatherton, every hour.

The Midland General name has returned to the streets of Nottinghamshire after a 28 year absence, Mercedes Plaxton Beaver 286 S286 UAL the first route since MG's return is the 145, the new Midland General is based at Hucknall garage.

Connect is a scheme which links up Hucknall Estates with Hucknall town centre or Nottingham (Via a connection with either Rainbow 3 (see seperate gallery title) or the NET Tram Line 1 service.
Through tickets are available to various places in the County including Nottingham, Mansfield, Sutton and Kirkby.
Buses used are 4 orange branded Optare Solos, X plate examples.

Here we have some photos taken from the respected 141 and 241 routes, this sees all-sorts of vehicles on it, and it is a particular favourite of mine.

Buxton -- Chapel En Le Frith - Stockport - Manchester Airport.

Travelling on the Commuter Xprss, with its high floor luxurious coaches, makes getting in to work a bit more comfortable, these coaches were refurbished inside as well to perfection.
These coaches are now fully Trent Bartonised, having started their lives in Barton Buses livery (777)

-- Derby
-- Heanor
Runs through Alfreton, Codnor etc every 60 mins.

Photos taken of routes 20, 23, 25, 27 etc. Also features Route Archive "Tesco Xprss" and, Route 1A a long with the "Langley Mill Staff Taxi"

Heres a general misc. section, out of service buses, and other items of interest, that don't fall under any category.

Derby - Ashbourne - Mayfield

TransPeak, Nottingham - Derby - Belper - Matlock - Bakewell - Buxton - Dove Holes - Manchester.

Runs Via West Bridgford to the Radcliffe Area.
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The Bingham Xprss runs straight to Bingham from Broadmarsh

This service runs direct from Nottingham-Long Eaton, limited stop. And during peak times only, it uses Lilac coloured Optare Solo's.

As time goes on, I certainly hope to add to this collection of photos, i.e. photos of more and more Sixes Scanias.

Getting.To.Derby.is.Quicker.Without.The.Stops!
The SF goes straight to Derby. Heres a few pics. I expect to add to this gallery ASAP.

A selection of Kinchbus photographs - including some withdrawn examples at Langley Mill.

Nottingham
Trent Bridge
Ruddington
Ruddington Business Park
Clifton
every 15 minutes throughout the daytime.

A selection of the old Barton route, now of course with Trent Barton, note this gallery includes some former R4 Excel examples, as they're still in the R4 Livery.

rainbow 3 provides customers with local links and a connection to the better picture.

3 Nottingham - Hucknall - Kirkby - Business Park - Mansfield
3A Nottingham - Hucknall - Annasely - Nuncargate - Kirkby - Sutton - Mansfield
3B Nottingham - Hucknall - Kirkby Cross - Sutton
3C Nottingham - Hucknall - Kirbkby - Coxmoor - Business Park - Mansfield.

This collection of snaps sees photos of the very popular and well used Rainbow 1 route, the Rainbow 1 consists of - different routes:
Nottingham --> Ripley Via Eastwood + Heanor.
Nottingham --> Heanor Via Eastwood + Langley Mill.
Nottingham --> Alfreton Via Eastwood + Jacksdale.
Nottingham --> Alfreton Via Eastwood + Selston.
Together, these form a frequency of every 10 minutes to Eastwood from Nottingham.
Night-Owl journeys run from Nottingham Upper Parliament Street to Eastwood, some go on to Heanor.
Other journeys on this route terminate in Eastwood and Langley Mill. (Coming from either the direction of Nottingham, or Alfreton mainly)

A Selection of Legal(S) from the Wellglade company.

A collection of photographs related to the Trent Barton subsidiary; Notts and Derby - they mainly do School Services, etc but are now becoming more and more known for their work on public services. They have an interesting range of vehicles... Take a Look.
Unibus service photos now will appear in UniBus gallery title.

Buxton town services, service 71 to Belper from Derby and Belper local town service photos will appear here.