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Yorkshire Buses - Scania N94UB / Scania OmniCity - YN06 WMM seen at Pinferfields Hospital, Wakefield operating service 113 to Pontefract Hospital on August 23rd 2024
One of two Scania single deckers which have arrived at Yorkshire Buses from First PMT. Seen here climbing Coal Hill Road, Rodley with the 9 ring road service heading for Pudsey and the chaos which is the White Rose Centre !
Seen at Hanley Bus Station in Stoke-on-Trent is First Potteries Scania Omnicity 65039 - YN06WMM in Potteries "Knotty" livery.
First Potteries Scania CN04UB/Omnicity 65039.YN06WMM with 'the knotty' livery in Bethesda Street, Hanley on the 22nd June 2023.
Seen in Hanley
23rd May 2023
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Seen in Hanley
23rd May 2023
Seen in Stoke-on-Trent
9th May 2023
Approaching the end of their time in the First Potteries fleet are the last Scania OmniCity buses. As 2006 examples they are now around 17 years old, and in the case of those carrying this Knotty scheme, have spent their entire lives running from Adderley Green depot on service 101 between Hanley and Stafford, during which they will have accumulated high mileages.
Somewhat unexpected was a heavy refurbishment of eight of this batch of 10 that started in 2019. It came at the same time that five ex-First Essex OmniCitys received the same treatment and debuted the LeekLink brand. Things have changed in the meantime from both operational and leadership perspectives, and one Knotty and two of the former Essex buses have already departed for scrap. Those that remain are due to go before too much longer; what will replace them is unclear, but it would be no surprise for that work to relate to goings-on in Leicester, where a wholesale conversion of First's fleet to battery-electric is underway, a shift that will release a significant number of mid-life Euro VI diesel buses.
Although they are in the winter of their arduous lives, these OmniCitys have been good servants to First. Here 65039 (YN06 WMM) passes the Borough Arms in Newcastle-under-Lyme bound for Hanley. The greenery on the far left is the site of the former Newcastle railway station - long gone, but the platforms of which still exist beneath the filled-in cut, according to local scuttlebutt.
Edit: Withdrawn July 2023.
Seen operating the 101 to Hanley is YN06WMM, a Scania Omnicity seen in Stafford on 27/07/22.
First Potteries 65039 (YN06 WMM) was one of six Scania CN94UB OmniCity buses that were repainted in a two-tone purple livery with The Knotty branding in 2020 for route 101 linking Hanley, Newcastle, Stone and Stafford. It was photographed at Newcastle-under-Lyme bus station on 1 August 2022.
Barracks Road / Hassell Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
Stubbs' Street, Newcastle-under-Lyme
John Street, Hanley.
The branding is a recognition of the traditional symbol of the county - the Staffordshire Knot
First Bus Potteries 'the Knotty' Scania Omnicity YN06 WMM 65039 , Station Road Stafford 21.7.21
65029 First Potteries "The Knotty"
YN06WMM
seen on Bethesda Street, Hanley.
Ah, a "Knotty" on the "Leek Link"...confusing...again!
