*VERY NICE* Ride on First South Yorkshire 30577 - WU02 KVV - Alexander ALX400 - Shuttle Run

If this hadn’t gone out at the same time, my video of 69154 could have been longer, but if I’d stayed on it, I wouldn’t have got this incredible looking vehicle.
This is 30577, or 2717 as it technically is once again, one of 15 B7TL ALX400s that were new to Sheffield/Rotherham during the summer of 2002. These were actually originally planned for Bristol, but due to double-decker shortages in Sheffield, Volvo B7Ls 66349-66356 were sent down instead.
Most of the WU02s spent their whole careers in South Yorkshire, though one or two did move to Cornwall for the final year. After spending 14 years serving Rotherham and Sheffield, 30577 moved over to Doncaster in 2016, and a repaint into the Olympia livery followed in 2019. She was officially retired from service on January 9, 2021, likely as a result of service reductions due to yet another COVID-19 lockdown. Following retirement, she was added to the SYTT’s collection, and rather than being restored to original condition, she has a received a what-could-have-been-type repaint in the form of the Mainline livery, and it looks incredible. I’ve always wondered what a Leicester one would look like in the CityBus livery, and what one of Arriva’s Lowlanders would look like in the Midland Fox livery. Her original number of 2717 has also been restored.
At the time this video is being uploaded, the SYTT have just preserved 66351. They also own B7TL Gemini 31787.
Not as good as 32059 when it got that new turbo, but you have to remember she is Euro 3, not Euro 2, and the windows all having to be open due to the heat didn’t help either. Still, another ALX400 that had been on my list for quite some time has now been ticked off.