A park and ride service was established to serve the town in 1997 with the initial car park site at Copdock Mill (still in use now) south of the town. Ipswich Buses operated the park and ride until 2008 when it was taken over by First . As of August 2013 until now there are two park ride sites, the original site at Copdock Mill and at Martlesham to the north-east of the town, with services running from one side to the other through the town centre.
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| Optare V1110 Versa 150 (YK08 EPJ) |
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| Optare V1110 Versa 145 (YK08 EPA) |
Following a five year absence Ipswich Buses took over the park and ride service in November 2013. Ipswich Buses acquired eight ex Nottingham City Transport MAN powered Optare Versas 145-52 YK08 EPA/C/D/E/F/J/U and V to run the park and ride service for Ipswich, which all carried the new blue park and ride livery. These buses have also been fitted with leather seats and on board 'next stop' announcement systems.
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| Optare V1110 Versa 148 (YK08 EPE) |
Ipswich Bues also used extra vehicles for park and ride service in the form of using town service buses, two Scania N230UD/Optare Olympus 68/69 YJ60 KGX/Y, one Alexander Dennis Enviro300 83 SK07 DYA and two new brand new Alexander Dennis Enviro200 81/82 YX63 LGE/F, these five different buses have a half blue and half green livery.
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| Dennis Dart SLF/East Lancs Myllennium 87 (PJ53 OLH) |
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| Scania N230UD/Optare Olympus 61 (PJ54 YZU) |
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| Alexander Dennis Enviro300 83 (SK07 DYA) |
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| Alexander Dennis Enviro200 83 (YX63 LGF) |
The buses that were used by First on the park and ride service between 2008 and 2013 most of them were reallocated to town services and painted in the new Ipswich livery.
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| Volvo B7RLE Wright Eclipse-Urban 69422 (AU58 FFJ), 69426 (AU58 FFN) & 69425 (AU58 FFM) |
Quite an impressive blog you have here Ryan, too bad Ipswich is some distance otherwise I would be tempted to visit (Joe Crammond)
ReplyDeleteThank you very much for your comment Joe
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