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In the nineties Alder Valley was progressively dismembered, with the area equating to the old Thames Valley operations being sold to Len Wright as Bee line. Besides its London coaching interests and London Buslines LRT contracted services, Len Wright was also the UK agent for Berkhof. This copled with a panchant for Scania chassis resulted in batches of Berkhof bodied Scanias for the Heathrow route. 743 (J743TDP) is a K113CRB seen at Terminal 4 in the silver and red livery also used on the previous batch of Duple 425s.

In the days of Thames Valley, the Reading-Heathrow service (route H) was the most profitable route of the lot, and in later days probably the only profitabe route. It was no surprise when Len Wright sold the Reading and Newbury Bee Line operations to Reading Buses, that this route was retained and operated from Bracknell depot. 797 (N797WAN) is seen at Reading Station with another in the same batch in yet another livery for the route.

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