10102 at the Hardengreen turning circle

Stuart Montgomery
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10102 at the Hardengreen turning circle
10102 at the Hardengreen turning circle

Volvo B7RLE / Wright Urban Eclipse number 10102 (RIG 6492) swings round the turning circle at Hardengreen and service 139 was once Lothian's 39 route (more or less) along with the 40, but when LB transferred these two services over to ECB they then became numbers 139 and 140.

These seven Eclipse's have been driven by my friend Ian McClavin, from Gravesend in Kent, and he has very kindly sent some information about their upbringing which I'm sharing through this series.....

"Registered in 2006, all with GN 06 E - original registrations (Arriva fleet nos 3801 - 3814), these Urban Eclipses are from a batch of fourteen, all in use at Northfleet Garage near Gravesend in Kent, on Fastrack Route B.

There were a further twelve '07' reg buses (3815 -3826) ordered the following year for Fastrack Route A, which were of slightly different design. Whilst at Northfleet, all we're painted in the special Fastrack livery rather than the standard Arriva livery, as Fastrack was a brand new service being introduced at the time. All had air-conditioning, the 06 reg vehicles initially had non-opening windows (some were subsequently retro-fitted with opening ones due to the air-conditioning often failing!)".

My thanks to Ian for this helpful information.

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Taken on: December 31, 2018
Sets appears in:   • Lothian's RIG Eclipses    • EAST COAST BUSES   
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