Sunday Lost Scenes - 26th February

This week's Sunday Lost Scenes comes from Portswood in May 2008...

Accord Southern 18 - HX51LPZ - Portswood (St Denys Road) - 13th May 2008

Accord Southern took over from First Hampshire on the Unilink contract in 2001, and in turn were replaced by Solent Blue Line in 2008. Accord operated a varied fleet of buses on the Unilink routes, which included Darts, Omnicitys, Enviros, Volvo B10Bs, Omnidekkas and many more different types of buses. The most common type of bus were a fleet of locally bodied Caetano bodied Dart SLFs, new in 2001, which provided the core allocation on routes U2, U6 and U9.

Here is fleet number 18 heading for Townhill Park on a middle of the day U9. Since Solent Blue Line have taken over, the U9 has been cut back to peak only buses, which means this particular shot is now impossible. You can still get one U9 heading down St Denys Rd - this bus tends to be in the hands of a double decker now though.