Red Kite (St Helens)

[motormayhem]

Red Kite (St Helens)
Couldnt find a thread so started this one.
Anyway looks like redkite have purchased 6 optare excels(orange livery) and also purchased 2 tridents (red livery i think) as noticed before when i went past there yard.

[r411 xfl]

RE: RedKite (St Helens)
7 excels
And 3 tridents

[Wright Eclipse]

RE: RedKite (St Helens)

(03/01/2013 22:18)motormayhem Wrote:  Couldnt find a thread so started this one.
Anyway looks like redkite have purchased 6 optare excels(orange livery) and also purchased 2 tridents (red livery i think) as noticed before when i went past there yard.

orange livery Excels....sounds like Ex-Trent Barton Rainbow 3 Ones

[andyrigby2410]

RE: RedKite (St Helens)
Right...the correct information!! 3 ex London United ALX400 bodied VOLVO B7TLs are SK52 USB/C/D (VA304-6 from FW/AV) along with the ex Trent Barton Excels (I'll hopefully confirm the IDs of at least some tomorrow).

Out of the fleet with the B7TLs coming are Nottingham Scania L113 N532 XRR, Merseybus Volvo B10B N618 CKA and Black Prince Prisma N577 EUG. No doubt more will be moving out shortly when the Excels enter service.

[CX54 DKD (Moderator)]

RE: RedKite (St Helens)
Absolutely devestated the B10 is going; we've been lucky enough to have that allocated to our school services - absolute beast of a bus. Ah well, thanks for the update Andy.

[T42 PVM (Moderator)]

RE: RedKite (St Helens)
all we can do is hope its sold to another company or preserved

[andyrigby2410]

RE: RedKite (St Helens)
You don't necessarily want to hope that!! Trust me!!

[andyrigby2410]

RE: RedKite (St Helens)
The seven ex trentbarton Excels are:

Y238 DRC
Y241 DRC
Y242 DRC
Y247 DRC
Y252 DRC
Y253 DRC
Y262 DRC

All still in rainbow3 orange base except 262 which is in trentbarton red base livery.

[Jack]

RE: Red Kite (St Helens)
One of the Excels out on the 755 I think it is this morning, the school run from Bold to De la Salle.

[andyrigby2410]

RE: Red Kite (St Helens)
There were two of them with boards in the windscreens yesterday so it looks like they're been pressed into service as soon as. There's also 2 Prismas, B6 L831 CDG and Merc N383 JGS parked up in a haulage yard over the road.