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In this album, I will try my best to show you some of the advertisements that Kelly Chen participated on the bus. So you can see that some of the photos were repeated in current album. Also, some of them are NOT taken by Digital Camera.

ERiC, 13/9/2007

The brand new Alexander Dennis Trident E500 in Citybus had been installed a Cummins IsL340e engine in order to fulfill the EURO IV exhausted standard. From the 2nd batch of #81xx(8110-8128), the staircase has changed to "rotate-curved" style. Making some difference from the 1st batch which is using the "straight" style staircase.

All the first batch of the 81xx series scheduled in Shenzhen Bay Port routes, B3- series. They may run the Western Harbour Tunnel routes in rush hour.
The second batch of the 81xx series starts to services in mid May 2009. They can be found in some Cross Harbour Tunnel Routes such as 102 and 619.

The Citybus Dennis Dart 9.9 metres, 1481-1490, are the second-hand buses bought from New World First Bus. On the other hand, the buses were sold to New World First Bus from China Motor Bus due to the termination of franchise services of CMB in 1998.

After Citybus received these 10 buses from New World First Bus, they were marked as non-franchised buses. And they can be hired for private purpose and served in some non-franchised route like 61R,62R and 88R.

After a period of times, some of the Citybus Dennis Dart were retired as the aged machine parts and the high maintenance cost.

The Citybus Dennis Dragon 10.3 metres[7xx] is one of the short wheelbase bus in Citybus. All of them are good at running some routes which are go across some narrow or bending road such as 6-series and 73.

All the 7xx fitted with a Duple Metsec body. It is worth to notice that the front part of the body was built with a "Alexander R-type" style which is an order by Citybus. Besides, 701-729 installed with a Cummins LTA10 engine and 730-740 installed with a Cummins LT10A engine.

Originally, Citybus owns 40 Dennis Dragon 10.3 metres. By some reasons, 2 of the 7xx were retired before 2009 and 1 of the 7xx was "re-bodied". They are 701 and 713. 701 was chosen for a test and it was converted to the Double Decker Electric Trolley in 2001. But 701 had never return to the service due to the restriction by the government. 713 caught on a fire in September 2002. And it was then retired due to the serious damage on the whole bus. Unluckily, 735 also caught on a fire when it was running Route 6X in 2008. And there is a serious damage on its rear. Citybus "rebuild" 735's rear by a retired DA(DA33) afterwards and 735 returns to service in June 2009.

The Dennis Trident 12m EURO III(2302-2310) are the second-hand buses from New World First Bus(1201-1209). All of them were fitted with the Cummins IsM-350e engine and Voith gearbox.

#2302-#2310 are now under N depot in Citybus. That means they serve in North New Territories routes.

The Citybus Dennis Trident (2200-2301) is the first model of super low-floor double decker bus in Citybus.

They are divided into several batches. The first two buses(2200-2201) are the demonstrator from Dennis. Alexander ALX 500 body is installed in 2200 and Duple Metsec DM5000 body is installed in 2201.

The second batch(2202-2261) mostly used for Lantau Island and Airport routes. They are all installed single door(except #2202, #2231) and luggage rack.

The last batch of the 22xx series(2262-2301) are produced with the urban city standard. Some of them serves the Lantau Island routes(E-series, S-series route). Luggage rack was installed in the buses. And the rest serves the urban city routes to improve the super low-floor buses services.

For this 5 Leyland Olympian, they are all the second-hand buses from CLP Power Hong Kong Limited(China Light and Power Company Limited). They are all non-franchised buses in Citybus fleet. And these 5 Leyland Olympian were sold to England in 2005.

There are only 11 Leyland Olympian 12 metre Cocah in Citybus.

All of them installed with singal door and they are all unfranchised.

They can be found in some Citybus unfranchised route like 88R. In addition, they can be hired for private purpose.

The Citybus MAN NL262R Coach ("Flyer" MAN), 1560-1569, is one type of Coach designated for Citybus Airport Express Route (Cityflyer).

Flyer MANs were all redesigned and refitted from the urban version of Citybus MAN NL262R(1501-1580). The reason that they were refitted because of the Southern District Cityflyer Route A10. After A10 was established, Flyer MANs becomes the regular scheduled buses.

Flyer MANs act as the supporting team of Cityflyer as well. They will be serve in A11 and some Airport Shuttle Route in peak hour.

Citybus MAN NL262R, one of the most popular single decker bus seen in Citybus.

There are totally 80 buses owned by Citybus initially. But in 2003 to 2006, 13 of them were sold or rent to New Lantao Bus(1973) Bus Ltd.(1576-1580), Discovery Bay Transit Services Ltd.(1570-1574), The SkyPier*(1514,1517,1534) and New Zealand(1575) separately.

10 of the rest were converted to Cityflyer to serve the Southern District Airport Route A10 in 2006.


* 1514,1517 was rent to The SkyPier in 2006. 1514 returned to Citybus in early 2008.

One of the non-franchised buses in Citybus are for hiring. Some buses were converted to open-top for hiring for sightseeing tours or private use.

The Volvo B6LE is the first model that carries the wheelchair space with the super low-floor standard(excluding #1301).

#1301 is Volvo B6R fitted with Alexander Dash bodywork with standard floor design and the others are Volvo B6LE with several bodywork with super low-floor design. #1302 - #1311, #1322 - #1331 built with Plaxton Pointer bodywork. #1312 - #1321 built with Alexander ALX200 bodywork and the rest are built with JieLuen bodywork.

Besides, 1301 - 1331 were sold to Stagecoach in the UK and New Zealand due to the exceeding quota in Citybus in 2001 - 2005. Also, 1335-1339, 1350 were sold to the New Lantao Bus[Fleet no in NLB: VL] in 2007. 1334, 1351 were lent to the SkyPier in 2007. 1355 was sold to the China Motor Bus[Fleet no in CMB: VC1] in 2001.

The Citybus Volvo Olympian 10.4 metres(239-248) is one of the short wheelbase model in Citybus. They fitted with Volvo TD102KF engine and a ZF gearbox. They can be found in Southern District route such as 6-series, 7, 73.

Due to the lack of space of the album, the sub-album will not be updated since the last update. Please go to the other sub-album to see another photos by model. Thank you.

ERiC, 16/6/2009

The brand new Alexander Dennis Trident E500 in NWFB fulfill the EURO IV exhausted standard. It is worth to noticed that is #5504. #5504 was sent to Australia for a promotion and on road testing for ADL products before #5504 had started its services in Hong Kong.

DM6, the last non air-conditioned bus in NWFB. It was being as a open-topped bus and taking a main character in the route 15C, the route connecting the peak tram station and the star ferry.
As DM6 was retired in late January in 2008 due to the expired license, DA66 was converted to open-top in late December in 2007 and continues DM6's mission.

Due to the lack of space of the album, the sub-album will not be updated since the last update. Please go to the other sub-album to see another photos by model. Thank you.

ERiC, 15/6/2009