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| Keywords: First Volvo Olympian 1.jpg First Chester and the Wirral bus 34236 reg P236 MPU a 1997 Volvo Olympian double-decker with Alexander RH bodywork pictured at Arrowe Park Hospital Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in the Wirral England It was one 16 such dual-door buses built by Alexander's Belfast plant for Capital Citybus for use on the London Buses route 91 running from Trafalgar Square to Crouch End Broadway which the company had won from MTL London Capital Citybus were a post-deregulation entrant to the London market using a yellow livery These buses however were delivered after it was decreed that buses operating London tendered routes must have an 80 red livery so only a thin upper and thick lower yellow stripe was applied to the otherwise red livery The batch was delivered as fleet no s 223-238 P223-236 MPU The batch remained in London on the 91 through the company's transition into First Group ownership eventually gaining VA-class prefixes to their fleetnumbers as was the standard in the traditional London companies As step-entrance buses the batch lasted longer than most in central London as low-floor buses began to be specified and weren't withdrawn until 2004 With the exception of 234/5/8 the entire batch were withdrawn between March and May 2004 and transferred to Rock Ferry depot in the Wirral part of First's Potteries subsidiary There they were all renumbered into First's national numbering scheme losing the VA and gaining '34' so VA236 became 34236 It's pictured here in First corporate livery having remained as a dual door bus conversion to single door is more common for most cascaded ex-London buses Own 2007-07-26 Quackdave Alexander RH on Volvo Olympian buses in the United Kingdom P236 MPU P prefix registered buses in the United Kingdom P236 MPU FirstGroup buses in the United Kingdom Public transport buses in the United Kingdom Buses in the United Kingdom photographed in July 2007 Buses in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral Arrowe | ||||
