page_title: Bluestar (bus company)
section_title: Do the Docks
hierarchical_section_title: Bluestar (bus company) / Past brands / Do the Docks
caption_attribution_description: English: Road in Mayflower Park A road in Mayflower Park. Open-topped Bristol VR bus has UFX 857S has just completed a tour of the docks (in spite of heavy rain!). Southampton's Holiday Inn can be seen in the background.
context_page_description: Solent Blue Line Ltd, which trades primarily under the name Bluestar, is a bus operator providing services in south Hampshire. It is a subsidiary of the Go South Coast sector of the Go-Ahead Group.
context_section_description: The 'Do the Docks' tour was an open-top bus tour of Southampton docks, using open-top buses from the New Forest Tour and a debranded Wilts & Dorset Leyland Olympian. The service changed on 29 July 2007 as a result of low passenger numbers following poor weather during the 2007 summer season, with the service losing its "turn up and hop on" format and becoming a chartered service. The route saw a brief reprieve in April 2008, when the service ran for two days on 26 and 27 of that month, as part of the Caribbean festival in Southampton. As Solent Blue Line no longer had the open-top buses for the routes, a hired Southern Vectis open-top bus was used.
caption: ECW bodied Bristol VRT in 'Do the Docks' livery in June 2007
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