This week's Sunday Lost Scene remembers an old favourite in Winchester...
Solent Blue Line 699 - A699DDL - Winchester (bus station) - 25th February 2006
This week there will be quite a few postings regarding different areas of First and possibly Stagecoach, so I thought this week's Sunday Lost Scenes would be for another local company. This is Solent Blue Line's Leyland Olympian 699, arriving in Winchester on BlueStar 1. For such an elderly bus, 699 was surprisingly treated to new colours in 2005.
Fast forward from 2006 by just four years and brand new state of the art Scania Omnicity double deckers were operating this route. Quite a transformation for one of the south's key services. 699 is long gone from Solent Blue Line now, and there are no longer any step entry buses in everyday service for the company now.
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