Red Rover

July 2010

Service Update

Following a customer review, Red Rover Buses will be revising service 260 from 26th July 2010. The service will be curtailed to operate as far as Worminghall only with a return loop via Ickford. Passengers for Ickford will need to travel via Worminghall. The remaining section of the route to Oxford is withdrawn. However, passengers can instead travel to Thame, where there are frequent connections to Oxford on Red Rover Premier Line 280. Through tickets will be available offering the same fares to Oxford as at present from Shabbington, Worminghall and Ickford. Service 260 will operate every 2 hours during the day more closely matching passenger demand. A revised timetable is shown on the Aylesbury Services page

Fleet News

A surprise second hand purchase is a single Transbus Enviro 300. Registered SN04 EVF, it arrived in late June in it's previous owners livery and has now been repainted in to standard Red Rover colours. Taking fleet number 295, it has been allocated to Chesham to add capacity to the 316 service to Hemel Hempstead. Pictures are on the Photographs page.

An updated Red Rover Fleet List for July is available on the Fleet List page

June 2010

Service Update

Due to requests from customers, Red Rover will adding a further service to the   express coach network from 5th July 2010. Service 402 is a commuter service linking Aylesbury with London via Aston Clinton, Tring and Berkhamsted, with a single return journey operating on Mondays to Fridays only. Competitive daily, weekly, monthly and annual season tickets will be offered. A timetable is available on the Express Coach Services page

Also on 5th July, we will be making some changes to Aylesbury town services as follows:-

Line 1

On journeys to Aylesbury Town Centre from Bedgrove, buses will operate via Aylesbury Rail Station

Line 4

On journeys from Aylesbury towards The Coppice, buses will also serve Aylesbury High Street, Stop G2

Line 8

The service will be extended from the Bus Station via Buckingham Road to terminate at the new housing development at Buckingham Park. On journeys to Quarrenden, it will now also serve Aylesbury High Street (Stop H2) and to Buckingham Park (Stop G2). All journeys from Quarrenden during the day will serve Aylesbury Station.

Line 9

On journeys to Quarrenden, the service will also operate via Aylesbury High Street (Stop H2) . On journeys from Southcourt, it will serve Aylesbury Station.

Revised timetables are available now by clicking on the Aylesbury Services page

Fleet News

Please see our 'Buses For Sale' page for the latest bus for sale - Volvo Citybus

Due to the loss of a couple of school contracts in Aylesbury recently, Metrobuses 620/1/4 (GBU 8/9V, GOG 387W) have been withdrawn - the first withdrawls of Metrobuses. They were immediately sold to London Surrey buses. Also withdrawn, finally, are all 3 Leyland National 2's - 200-2 (PEX 614-6X) and the first of the refurbished Bristol RE's, 103 (NHN 766K). The Bristol RE has been sold to Southbus for active preservation in that fleet.

The final Enviro 200 was delivered on 1st June. It is registered OE10 RRB and takes fleet number 224. A further used purchase is a further Scania Omnicity YN05 HFG. It has entered service at Aylesbury in all over red and is allocated fleet number 287. It will be repainted as soon as time allows. Pictures are now available on the photos page.

May 2010

Service Update

A timetable for the new 345 service between Chesham and High Wycombe, starting on 24th May, is now available by going to the Chesham and Amersham Services page.

Fleet News

Second hand purchases are Volvo B7RLE Wright Urban Eclipses, YN51 KGU and FN04 HSG with B44F bodies. Both are allocated to Chesham (it's first Wright Urbans) and take fleet numbers 271/2. As a consquence of the above, Optare Solos 270-4 have now been renumbered 275-9. With the start of the above new service (requiring up to four additional buses at Chesham), it is likely that Volvo B7/East Lancs Myllenium 655-7 (PN52 XBM/T/W/) will be reallocated to Chesham prior to the new services commencing. Their replacements at Aylesbury, in part, will be the the forthcoming Enviro 200 although this is not due until early June and possibly some further additional second hand purchases. Leyland Nationals 200-2 (PEX 614-6W) have finally been offered for sale, along with the first Metrobuses to be withdrawn 620/1/4 (GBU 8/9V and GOG 387W) and Bristol RE/ECW 103 (NHN 766K), the first of the refurbished Re's to be withdrawn.

An updated Fleet List is now available on the Fleet List page

April 2010

Two of the Enviro 200’s have now been delivered, are to B29F configuration and have registrations OV10 DCS/T (222/3). They are allocated to Aylesbury. The third is a longer variant to B37F configuration and is due in early June.

A somewhat surprising addition to the fleet is a former London Buses Bristol LH6L with ECW B39F body, OJD 48R! It was purchased from a preservationist and has been allocated as the spare bus at Chesham (it being narrow enough for some of the country roads in the Chilterns, yet having fairly decent seating capacity). It has been repainted in to full fleet livery and carries fleet number 110. A picture will be on the website shortly.

All four 10.2m Dennis Dart/Plaxton Pointer SLF's have been withdrawn and sold to Capital and Provincial. These are N204/7/9/10 NNJ (234-7). As a result, all three Leyland National 2's (200-2) and the remaining Scania Wright Access (207) have been reallocated to Chesham from Aylesbury in their place.

March 2010

Fleet News

Not previously mentioned, but acquired during September 2009, is a further Wright Eclipse bodied Volvo B7RLE. Numbered 270, it carries registration MX06 VNV. Unlike the othe Eclipses operated, this has standard bus seats.

An updated Red Rover Buses Fleet List is available by clicking here

February 2010

Fleet News

Daimler Fleetline KON 371P (503) has been withdrawn and sold for preservation.

New vehicle orders have been announced and comprise three further Dennis Enviro 200's, these being due for delivery during April and June. In the current economic climate, these new buses will be supplemented by quality second hand ones, rather than with further new vehicles.

To that end, two recent arrivals are G285 OGE, an H78F Alexander RV bodied Volvo Citybus, from LR Travel. It has been repainted in to fleet livery from white and is for school services from Aylesbury and carries fleet number 520. Also now in service is Red Rover Buses' first Scania Omnidekka, YN53 PAO, which came from a dealer, has H69F seating and is allocated fleet number 680. As it is used as a spare bus for services X15 and 323, it doesn't carry any specific route branding. Pictures of both these buses are on the Photographs page

December 2009

Service Update

Red Rover is please to announce that from 4th January 2010, we will be joining the   express coach network. Both our express coach services X1 and X4 will be incorporated in to the existing Countrywide route numbering system, with X1 becoming Countrywide FlightLink 701 and X4 becoming Countrywide 404. In addition, new Flightlink 701 will have an enhanced timetable with coaches operating every two hours every day, with earlier and later departures from both Heathrow and Luton airports. There will be no changes to new service 404. Countrywide operates coach services across the UK and our passengers will have access to a wide range of joining services and through ticketing to a huge range of destinations. A link to the Countrywide website is available on the links page. Red Rover has purchased 6 refurbished DAF coaches to operate the new services, with leather seating and onboard video/TV. Timetables will appear on our website in the next couple of days.

Fleet News

The six coaches above are all DAF SB4000XF/Van hool C48F T9's and are registered YJ05 PWF-H/K-M (taking fleet numbers 701-6). All wear Countrywide livery and have been repainted and refurbished in our own workshops. Further used vehicles are Optare Solos W317 DWX and KX51 CSZ (273/4) in Shuttle livery at Chesham and Dart SLF Mini Pointers MX04 AXN and VE52 HEC (243/4) at Aylesbury in standard livery. Withdrawn and sold are Volvo B10 BLE/Wright Renown N106 GVS (206), Volvo Ailsa/Alexander JOV 743P (520), Neoplan Skyliners Y23-5 OHC (710-12) and the only Olympian in the fleet, Alexander-bodied Royale N125 YRW (704).

Also new to Red Rover this month is a DAF 105/Boniface M8 Recovery lorry. This is allocated to Aylesbury.

Pictures of all the new vehicles are on the photos page