Hi, I used to use the 97 in my childhood with my grandparents, pre 2020, you would be guaranteed to get Tridents, not an enviro 400/trident mix, I've always known the route to have Tridents on it, at one point they worked along side old Mercedes O405Ns and when they were being withdrawn, Scania Omnilinks. But you would always see more Tridents than other buses. I'd be in my grandparents back garden and hear a driver boot a trident away from the nearby stop, hearing it less and less now.
I’d recommend going to Rotherham and looking at the 19/19A route, it has a chance of a rare Stagecoach midlands ALX400s. I’m planning on trying to find one of them at some point myself!
There's none of these ALX400's left in Coventry as they have all been transferred from Coventry to various depots in Birmingham 4125 is the oldest still in operation to my knowledge and that's if it hasn't been withdrawn yet. I will miss these when they are all withdrawn.
NX (or TWM) at the time, ordered quite a few batches of tridents. 4125-4224 - Y reg 4305-4414 - 51/52 reg 4425-4474 - 03/53 reg 4535-4634 - 53/04/54 reg Intriguing story regarding the 4565-4584 batch of (transbus) tridents. They were actually on order for Stagecoach, but Transbus collapsed, Stagecoach cancelled the order, and NX picked them up. This explains why they have voith gearboxes (all tridents 4425 and up are ZF, with 4125-4404 are all voith)
Hi, I used to use the 97 in my childhood with my grandparents, pre 2020, you would be guaranteed to get Tridents, not an enviro 400/trident mix, I've always known the route to have Tridents on it, at one point they worked along side old Mercedes O405Ns and when they were being withdrawn, Scania Omnilinks. But you would always see more Tridents than other buses. I'd be in my grandparents back garden and hear a driver boot a trident away from the nearby stop, hearing it less and less now.
I’d recommend going to Rotherham and looking at the 19/19A route, it has a chance of a rare Stagecoach midlands ALX400s. I’m planning on trying to find one of them at some point myself!
There's none of these ALX400's left in Coventry as they have all been transferred from Coventry to various depots in Birmingham 4125 is the oldest still in operation to my knowledge and that's if it hasn't been withdrawn yet. I will miss these when they are all withdrawn.
Are you gonna do a video in peterborugh
So you're running the Halifax bus day.
NX (or TWM) at the time, ordered quite a few batches of tridents.
4125-4224 - Y reg
4305-4414 - 51/52 reg
4425-4474 - 03/53 reg
4535-4634 - 53/04/54 reg
Intriguing story regarding the 4565-4584 batch of (transbus) tridents.
They were actually on order for Stagecoach, but Transbus collapsed, Stagecoach cancelled the order, and NX picked them up.
This explains why they have voith gearboxes (all tridents 4425 and up are ZF, with 4125-4404 are all voith)
4405-4414 at Coventry were also ZF
4565-4584 is voith