Hungary home for Arriva Ikarus

PRESERVATION UPDATE

Towards the end of its life with Arriva Yorkshire, 58 (YD02 RJJ) passes through East Bierley in August last year.
DANIEL STAZICKER
YD02 RJJ in Aztecbird service in Wellington Street, Leeds in April 2003.
DANIEL STAZICKER

One of the last Ikarus-bodied buses supplied to the UK has returned to Hungary for exhibition in the Transport Museum in Budapest.

Arriva Yorkshire 58 (YD02 RJJ) was one of 11 Ikarus Polarisbodied DAF SB220s that the Arriva Bus & Coach dealership imported in 2001, based on the Ikarus 489 design and built at the Mátyásföld factory in eastern Budapest.

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