Faresaver Chippenham

[snowman]

As some will know, I moved out of London last week, and although I haven’t yet ridden any of their buses, my local bus operator is Faresaver of Chippenham. I understand they are family owned, so independent and not part of a national group

All the buses are painted white and mauve, so complete change from London Red

The fleet is 13 solos, 2007, 2011 and quite a few 15reg and 66 reg
Plenty (about 30) of ADL E200s (various from 2008 - 2017), and mix of lengths, these seem to be majority of fleet
I think a few of them might be ex-London, but until I unpack old LOTs fleetbooks not really sure

Seems to be about 9 double decks, a Gemini, 4 Volvo B7TL ALX400s and 4 Volvo B9TL Gemini2
These seem to appear on selected workings of the Chippenham-Bath X31 service (which has some 60mph single carriageway sections along A4 near Corsham, don’t yet know if this is normal, or because there are no school workings in August

[twobellstogo]

There’s an entire enthusiast’s website on faresaverenthusiasts.weebly.com/

A cursory glance there suggests ex. Arriva London VLW100 is with Faresaver, which spent most (all?) its London life at North London garages.

Edit : several of the E200s appear to be ex. Metroline machines.

[LJ17THF]

Aug 22, 2020 21:14:26 GMT twobellstogo said:

There’s an entire enthusiast’s website on faresaverenthusiasts.weebly.com/

A cursory glance there suggests ex. Arriva London VLW100 is with Faresaver, which spent most (all?) its London life at North London garages.

Edit : several of the E200s appear to be ex. Metroline machines.

I believe all VLW's spent their time in North London. A shame really, I never got to ride on them .

[vjaska]

Aug 22, 2020 21:22:19 GMT LJ17THF said:

Aug 22, 2020 21:14:26 GMT twobellstogo said:

There’s an entire enthusiast’s website on faresaverenthusiasts.weebly.com/

A cursory glance there suggests ex. Arriva London VLW100 is with Faresaver, which spent most (all?) its London life at North London garages.

Edit : several of the E200s appear to be ex. Metroline machines.

I believe all VLW's spent their time in North London. A shame really, I never got to ride on them .

Indeed apart from the one that escaped to GY for the 66 which back then hadn't been absorbed into Arriva London North.

I didn't get to ride loads being a South Londoner but did manage to ride a few including the very early ones on the 221 about 10-15 years ago