Welcome Back!

 Hello everyone,

After an absence of twelve years, the Southern England Bus Scene blog is back. A desire to write about trips and days out, coupled with a place to reminice and recall how the local bus scene has changed over the years, is the reason for the return of the blog - I hope you enjoy it! 

This supplements other sites that I either own or moderate: 

My Flickr site: https://www.flickr.com/photos/50777276@N03/

My Smugmug photo site: https://southernenglandbus.smugmug.com/

The First Hants & Dorset forum: https://fhd-forums.orgfree.com/forums/index.php

After twelve years, I've foung Blogger has moved over to Google and it may take me some time to learn the formatting details, so bare with me! 

As we begin, here are a couple of views of the latest addition to the First Solent fleet - former Kernow ADL Enviro200MMC fleet no. 44952 (WK18 BVC), which entered service on Friday in Solent blue livery. 

First up, here is 44952 pictured at the eastern terminus of Farlington Sainsburys. The 22 operates every 70 minutes on a curious triangle-style route, firstly heading towards the Lower Wymering area of Cosham before then heading north to Highbury. All three locations were once the preserve of services with much higher frequencies - sadly, not the case today. 

Next up, another view of 44952 pictured having just crossed the level crossing at Cosham railway station. 44952 joins sister 44951 at Hilsea depot, the latter still in Kernow green but reportedly now off for repaint. 

Thank you for coming back and viewing the first post back - trips reports, local news and memories of the past to come in future weeks. I'll try to settle down in to a regular blog posting routine - further details to come soon.

James