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Back in THE FROZEN NORTH for a few weeks thank christ - really not getting on with Manchester 😂

Been out and learned a new PTE tendered service we started after I departed for Manchester; it has a peak requirement of two and three Solos are on fleet for it, though these appear to be on rotation as there has been about eight different Solos at various times over the last few weeks.

Yesterday's offerings on my shift were 47651 and 47843; 47822 (MK59 BLU) is the third.

[busmansholiday]

On 28/07/2024 at 09:15, wesacosa said:

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1546349595972326?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

Some mid 90s Hull bus station nostalgia. I have no memory of those blue and white Nationals or who operated them.  I'm not sure I remember Nationals in Hull at all from any operators.

I love the way the 181 Metrobus let's his passengers off and has them weave in front of those other buses!

The blue Nationals were owned by Pride of the Road Coaches, technically a Barnsley based firm who competed with established operators in parts of South, West and East Yorkshire after bus deregulation. Well until they went bust.

[wesacosa]

23 minutes ago, busmansholiday said:

The blue Nationals were owned by Pride of the Road Coaches, technically a Barnsley based firm who competed with established operators in parts of South, West and East Yorkshire after bus deregulation. Well until they went bust.

ah ok right, thanks. I don't remember them at all and I was a bus nerd

[Weird Car]

Is anyone going to Stokes Bay on the 4th?

I’ll be representing my Depot by displaying and driving a ‘The Star’ livery ADL 200MMC 

the first 2 shiters to come up to me and say  ‘why have they given you this piece of shite and not a Leyland National’ will get a free Autoshite sticker 😁

[Inspector Morose]

2 hours ago, busmansholiday said:

The blue Nationals were owned by Pride of the Road Coaches, technically a Barnsley based firm who competed with established operators in parts of South, West and East Yorkshire after bus deregulation. Well until they went bust.

Altogether now:

”Pride o’ road? More like side o’ road”

They were the first company to put the Ikarus bodied DAF SB220 on the road though, way way back.

[martc]

5 hours ago, Inspector Morose said:

They were the first company to put the Ikarus bodied DAF SB220 on the road though, way way back.

Heroes.

[martc]

Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong, 1963. We have a Thames Trader, a Vauxhall Wyvern in the background (I think). But what are the coaches? I think I've seen something similar in the UK carrying AEC badges on the front, but who did the bodywork?

[martc]

'RM-type bus interior, 1976', those look suspiciously like railway tickets, are they asking for a discount?

[LightBulbFun]

4 minutes ago, martc said:

'RM-type bus interior, 1976', those look suspiciously like railway tickets, are they asking for a discount?

I wonder if those are travel cards of some kind? you can just make out what looks to be a London Transport roundel  

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

51 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

I wonder if those are travel cards of some kind? you can just make out what looks to be a London Transport roundel  

TfL museum says the tickets are 

51 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

I wonder if those are travel cards of some kind? you can just make out what looks to be a London Transport roundel  

 

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

https://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/collections/collections-online/photographs/item/2001-5627
 

Sorry trying to do this on one of those smart telephone thingies

[Yoss]

2 hours ago, martc said:

'RM-type bus interior, 1976', those look suspiciously like railway tickets, are they asking for a discount?

The question has already been answered but just to add railway tickets didn't look like that in 1976 anyway. Most of them were stout thick card affairs like this. About 1" by 2". 

They always seemed to be the pink ones in Southampton. I've no idea what an all line railrover looked like at the time. 

[LightBulbFun]

my mum had happened to purchased a single day travel card on the day I was born, and she had the foresight to keep it locked away somewhere safe and then handed to me a few years ago when she was sorting through some archived materials, which as  which as a London Transport fan I was quite chuffed to get given, I mean I had no idea until that point my mum had such a relevant to me bit of ephemera from the day I was born so that was quite the pleasant surprise  

[Yoss]

10 minutes ago, LightBulbFun said:

my mum had happened to purchased a single day travel card on the day I was born, and she had the foresight to keep it locked away somewhere safe and then handed to me a few years ago when she was sorting through some archived materials, which as  which as a London Transport fan I was quite chuffed to get given, I mean I had no idea until that point my mum had such a relevant to me bit of ephemera from the day I was born so that was quite the pleasant surprise  

It's almost as if she knew. She could could only have topped that off by pinching a light bulb out of an RM on the way to the hospital! 

[busmansholiday]

5 hours ago, martc said:

Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong, 1963. We have a Thames Trader, a Vauxhall Wyvern in the background (I think). But what are the coaches? I think I've seen something similar in the UK carrying AEC badges on the front, but who did the bodywork?

They are not AECs, they are Guy Arab UFs with (Duple) Metal Sections bodies (ie CKD), apparently known as 'big chickens".

 

[martc]

14 hours ago, Yoss said:

The question has already been answered but just to add railway tickets didn't look like that in 1976 anyway. Most of them were stout thick card affairs like this. About 1" by 2". 

They always seemed to be the pink ones in Southampton. I've no idea what an all line railrover looked like at the time. 

 

16 hours ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

TfL museum says the tickets are 

 

Thanks everyone for answering my questions

You know after I posted my question I did think that the 'modern' railway tickets we use now-a-days were a bit advanced for the mid '70's - what with being issued by a computer and having a readable magnetic strip. I can remember the old card tickets and the introduction of the new style, but quite when was the problem...

Perhaps the design of the railway ticket was inspired by these bus tickets

[martc]

Percy St, NuT. Looks like Thatcher is avoiding the bus, true to her word.

[martc]

Three Ikarus 260s and a LiAZ-677 imposter. Karl Marx Avenue, Kuibyshev, 1981.

[quicksilver]

A surprise spot today that will please @Yoss and @LightBulbFun. It's none other than Lord Barrington's RM2097 in its delightfully scruffy Do Not Paint condition.

[Yoss]

33 minutes ago, quicksilver said:

A surprise spot today that will please @Yoss and @LightBulbFun. It's none other than Lord Barrington's RM2097 in its delightfully scruffy Do Not Paint condition.

I think he fully intends to paint it one day, he just has to fix every other Routemaster first. He has been known to work on RT/RFs too. 

[Dyslexic Viking]

I didn't know that anyone was stupid enough to make a bus with a rotary/wankel engine. Also contains several eastern block buses.

 

[N19]

London bus routes are, theoretically, much more stable than the deregulated mess outwith the city. Whilst private firms are used to run all the routes, they do so to a specified contract where TfL set out all the frequencies, service standards etc, and all the fares are dealt with by TfL. The private firms simply provide a bus with a driver when TfL tells them to.

A local firm Sullivans, much smaller than most of the large firms who do this work for TfL, have had a number of contracts for several years for services around the Barnet/Enfield area, in addition to commercial stage carriage services in Hertfordshire. Yesterday they announced that their operations would cease at the end of the day. (They say because TfL haven't paid them enough; TfL seem to have withheld various sums because of chronic unreliability and failure to meet standards). Some semblance of a service was cobbled together to operate today with presumably permanent replacements in hand.

[doug]

Hope this link works.

 

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/LxSYKLKmtj1asC7p/

 

[martc]

The very first FIAT 421 double decker built by Breda Pistoiesi. 

[martc]

I think there's a FIAT coach chassis underneath this mobile bar. Hic!

[martc]

The Strand on a sunny July day, 1937. The woman is hailing an STL-type.

[martc]

Ikaruses incoming....

Hotel 'Berkut' in the Zakarpattia region, Ukrainian SSR, 1980. Intourist ran a fleet of Ikaruses (Ikarusii?) to ferry western tourists around. I wonder if that was because they were the most western (ie comfortable, reliable, modern) of the Bloc's coaches? Compare and contrast with the blue and white USSR built PAZ 672, which were made from 1958 to 1989!

[martc]

One or two ZIL 158 coaches on Krasnopresnenskaya embankment, Moscow, 1965.

[FakeConcern]

Spotted outside a cafe on the Isle of Sheppey

I was hoping I could sit in it to eat my bacon bap, but it wasn't open

I'm sure someone will be able to tell me what kind of bus it is

[Yoss]

RTL 554

Aylesbury Station. 

 

Chinnor Station. 

 

And almost back to Aylesbury. 

 

The trip was a memorial run for a friend who passed away last year. A trip was also had on the Chinnor and Princes Risborough railway for which pictures will appear on the relevant thread.