Dennis Trident

Photographs of 10.3m Trident 3s are sorted into the following pages:
3301L - the first low height Trident
NWFB Tridents (8 pages)
Interior details of 3304L
The 500th New Bus: 3340L
10.3m Tridents passing Jardine Bridge
10.3m Tridents serving Cape Collinson Routes
10.3m Tridents on Mansfield Road
Dennis Trident Chassis

Photographs of 10.5m Trident 2s are sorted into the following pages:
Lothian Tridents (1 page)
Stagecoach Tridents (1 page)
Travel West Midlands Tridents (1 page)

Photographs of 10.6m Trident 3s are sorted into the following pages:
1601 - The first 10.6m long Trident (1 page)
New World First Bus ALX500 bodied Tridents (5 pages)
New World First Bus Tridents in Stanley (1 page)
New World First Bus Route 319 Inauguration Ceremony (1 page)
10.6m Tridents serving Cape Collinson Routes (1 page)
3601 - The only New World First Bus Duple Metsec bodied 10.6m Trident (1 page)

Kowloon Motor Bus Duple Metsec bodied Tridents (7 pages)
Kowloon Motor Bus Duple Metsec bodied Tridents in Tuen Mun Depot (1 page)
Kowloon Motor Bus Duple Metsec bodied Tridents serving 5C (3 pages)
Kowloon Motor Bus Trident with nostalgic livery
KMB Tridents serving Po Tat Temporary Terminus (1 page)
Kowloon Motor Bus Alexander ALX500 bodied Tridents in Tuen Mun Assembly Plant (1 page)
Kowloon Motor Bus Alexander ALX500 bodied Tridents (5 pages)
Interior details of a Kowloon Motor Bus Alexander ALX500 bodied Trident (1 page)
Kowloon Motor Bus Green Trident under inspection (1 page)

MTR ex-NWFB Tridents in KCR livery (6 pages)
 

Photographs of 11.3m Trident 3s are sorted into the following pages:
1402 - the 300th New Bus (1 page)
NWFB Tridents (5 pages)
Interior details of an NWFB Trident (1 page)
11.3m Tridents serving Cape Collinson Routes (1 page)

Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation Tridents (1 page)
Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation Tridents in service (3 pages)
Interior details of a Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation Trident (1 page)

Photographs of 12m Trident 3s are sorted into the following pages:
1001 - the first bus in New World First Bus (1 page)
New World First Bus ALX500 bodied Tridents (10 pages)
1008 - New World First Bus Millennium Bus (4 pages)
NWFB Information Journey (2 pages)
NWFB Mobile Gallery (2 pages)
Interior details of an NWFB ALX500 bodied Trident (1 page)
NWFB Duple Metsec bodied Tridents (2 pages)
Trident 3016 towed by recovery vehicle DT5249 (1 page)
Interior details of an NWFB Duple Metsec bodied Trident (1 page)
NWFB Trident celebrating the company's first anniversary (1 page)
NWFB Year of the Dragon Prosperity Bus (1 page)
NWFB Trident promoting the use of ULSD (1 page)
NWFB Contra-vision Advertisement Promoting Route 18 (1 page)
Yahoo! You Wide Web Free Bus (5 pages)

Citybus Millennium Bus (1 page)
Duple Metsec bodied Cityflyers (4 pages)
Alexander bodied Cityflyers (2 pages)
Citybus luxury buses with Duple Metsec single door body (1 page)
Interior details of a Citybus luxury bus with Duple Metsec single door body (1 page)
Citybus luxury buses with Duple Metsec dual door body (2 pages)
2200 - the only Alexander bodied Citybus city bus (1 page)
Duple Metsec bodied Citybus city buses (3 pages)
Citybus Year of the Dragon Bus (1 page)

Long Win Tridents (6 pages)

ATR1 - The first Kowloon Motor Bus Trident (1 page)
ATR101 - Another Kowloon Motor Bus Demonstrator (1 page)
Interior details of a KMB Alexander ALX500 bodied Trident (1 page)
Kowloon Motor Bus Alexander ALX500 bodied Tridents (6 pages)
Kowloon Motor Bus Millennium bus (1 page)
Kowloon Motor Bus Duple Metsec Bodied Tridents (2 pages)
Kowloon Motor Bus Duple Metsec bodied Tridents in Tuen Mun Assembly Plant (4 pages)
Kowloon Motor Bus Duple Metsec bodied Tridents serving 68X (1 page)
Kowloon Motor Bus Duple Metsec bodied Tridents with electronic destination equipment (4 pages)

SBS Transit Duple Metsec DM5000 bodied Tridents (4 pages)

Photographs of Enviro 400 Tridents are sorted into the following pages:

Hong Kong
Citybus Enviro 400 (1 page)
Citybus Enviro 400s (2 pages)
Interior details of Citybus Enviro 400 (1 page)
The Hong Kong Institute of Education Arts Bus (1 page)

Kowloon Motor Bus Enviro 400 (1 page)
Interior details of Kowloon Motor Bus Enviro 400 (1 page)
Kowloon Motor bus Enviro 400s in the second batch (1 page)

Mass Transit Railway Corporation Enviro 400s (1 page)
Interior details of Mass Transit Railway Corporation Enviro 400 (1 page)

United Kingdom
Metroline E400s (1 page)

Photographs of Enviro 500 11.3m Tridents
Mass Transit Railway Corporation 11.3m Enviro 500s (1 page)
New World First Bus 11.3m Enviro 500s (2 pages)

Photographs of Enviro 500 12m Tridents
Citybus Euro 4 Enviro 500s (1 page)
Citybus Enviro 500s in Cityflyer livery (1 page)

CLP Power Enviro 500s (1 page)

Enviro 500s in Las Vegas (3 pages)

Gray Line Enviro 500s (1 page)

Kowloon Motor Bus Enviro 500s prior to registration (1 page)
Enviro 500 involved in minor accident (1 page)
Enviro 500s with museum advertisements (1 page)
Kowloon Motor Bus Enviro 500s (1 page)

Long Win Euro 4 Enviro 500s (1 page)

Mass Transit Railway Corporation Enviro 500s (5 pages)

New World First Bus Enviro 500 with smashed windows (1 page)

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Developed in 1996 from Dennis Arrow, the Trident is a new type of super low floor double decker. 12m, 11.3m and 10.6m and 10.3m three axled variants (traded as Trident 3) are focused on the Far East market. On the other hand, 9.9m, 10.5m, 10.6m and 11.4m two axled variants (traded as Trident 2) are available in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Owing to the lack of competitors, the Trident 2 was very popular in its early years in Britain. The sales volume dropped a lot when its Volvo and Scania counterparts were put into market.

Although China Motor Bus has not actually bought any Trident 3, it was the first operator in Hong Kong which placed order for Tridents. The order was later replaced by Dragons (DA83-92) due to the slow development of Tridents in 1996.

The first Trident registered in Hong Kong was ATR1 (HJ2127) of Kowloon Motor Bus. It was registered in early 1997. Then the bus was allocated to Route 1A. In the beginning, there were figures pasted on the windows at the lower deck.

In May 1999, it came across a traffic accident and suffered serious front and rear damage. It had been repaired for months before it returned to service in December 1999.

After the success of ATR1, Kowloon Motor Bus have ordered 369 more 12m Tridents. They have Alexander ALX500 bodies or Duple Metsec DM5000 bodies.

In addition, 150 10.6m Tridents have been purchased by Kowloon Motor Bus. 50 of them have Duple Metsec bodies  and the remaining ones have Alexander ALX500 bodies.

Long Win Bus Company purchased 150 Tridents in 1997. 25 of them were fitted with coach seats and the rest were fitted with city bus seats. One of them suffered total lost in a fire in 1999. Dennis compensated by building a new bus with Duple Metsec body.

Citybus also bought more than 200 tridents. Some of them have luxury seats and luggage racks and were deployed to Airport Routes. The other buses are deployed to Island Routes and cross-harbour routes.

New World First Bus acquired 190 Alexander bodied 12m Tridents, 62 Duple Metsec bodied 12m Tridents, 30 Alexander bodied 11.3m Tridents, 62 Alexander bodied 10.6m Tridents, 1 Duple Metsec bodied 10.6m Trident and 60 Duple Metsec bodied 10.3m Tridents since it was founded in 1998. They are all 3-axled models with wheelchair access. Among these Tridents, the 10.3m model were 4.17m tall and most of them were fitted with tree bumpers although they were all removed later.

Kowloon Canton Railway Corporation purchased 22 11.3m long Alexander bodied Tridents. Later, they purchased 47 10.6m and 4 11.3m second hand Tridents from New World First Bus. These buses were used as feeder buses from railway stations. All buses have been transferred to Mass Transit Railway Corporation after the merge.

Singapore Bus Services ordered 30 12m Tridents with Duple Metsec bodies in 1997. But they entered service in 2001.

In United States and Canada, Duple Metsec bodied Tridents were purchased by cities like New York and Vancover.

Since late 2002, the Trident 3 chassis was built as a complete bus called Enviro 500. It was fitted with Alexander Dennis Enviro 500 body. 12m, 12.8m and 11.3m variants were available.

For Trident 2 chassis, Enviro 400 complete bus was also available. Since 2009, Kowloon Motor Bus and Citybus introduced Enviro 400s. They entered service since 2010.

Photographs of Dennis Trident 10.3m

Photographs of Dennis Trident 10.5m

Photographs of Dennis Trident 10.6m

Photographs of Dennis Trident 11.3m

Photographs of Dennis Trident 12m

Photographs of Dennis Trident Enviro 400

Photographs of Dennis Trident Enviro 500 11.3m

Photographs of Dennis Trident Enviro 500 12m

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Page created: 7 July 1999

Last updated: 18 November 2012