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[martc]

Kings Cross.

[jon.k]

I was very pleasantly surprised to see this paramount doing a school run yesterday morning (in immaculate Wallace Arnold livery).

I'm pretty sure I've also seen these doing the route.

They have some really smart coaches.

 

[martc]

Anerley Road SE20, 1973.

[High Jetter]

My Dad worked for a machinery company in Anerley, Tarpen IIRC. 

[HarmonicCheeseburger]

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, HarmonicCheeseburger said:

Presumably that’s some sort of gas supplying equipment on the trailer for use during the war. If so, why would Dunlop advertise their tyres? The market for private car tyres must have been tiny.

[LightBulbFun]

2 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Presumably that’s some sort of gas supplying equipment on the trailer for use during the war. If so, why would Dunlop advertise their tyres? The market for private car tyres must have been tiny.

indeed a war time gas trailer on the back of an ST bus , some details can be gleaned from the excellent Ians Bus stop website http://www.countrybus.org/ST/ST.html#stand1

(scroll down till ya get to the ST's at war section)

[HarmonicCheeseburger]

1 hour ago, Metal Guru said:

Presumably that’s some sort of gas supplying equipment on the trailer for use during the war. If so, why would Dunlop advertise their tyres? The market for private car tyres must have been tiny.

According to Reddit it's a wood gas burner used during Wartime shortages of fuel.

[martc]

Ikarus 260 action in Berlin, Haupstadt der DDR.

[martc]

Manhattan: 14th Street and Broadway/Union Square East (5th July 1982).

[666jjp]

11 hours ago, martc said:

Ikarus 260 action in Berlin, Haupstadt der DDR.

@RetroShite Wartburg photobombing

[500tops]

 

[quicksilver]

1 hour ago, 500tops said:

 

The infamous Kells 'transport museum' that was never much more than a glorified scrapyard with a highly eccentric owner. I hadn't heard much about it lately so I wondered what state it was in now. Everything is completely ruined and the scrappers are obviously just working their way round destroying whatever is in their path so there is no hope of any salvation. Sad as there was some rare stuff there but it was doomed by its owner's 'interesting' attitude to preservation.

[High Jetter]

Could be a lucrative* tourist attraction?

[quicksilver]

12 hours ago, High Jetter said:

Could be a lucrative* tourist attraction?

That was the guy's deluded intention. He used to make grand claims of being "Ireland's operating bus museum" and "the largest transport museum in the world with over 400 buses" but in reality most of them were just scrap 'donated' by operators glad to find a way of getting rid of them without paying the scrapman. Plus it was a field in the arse end of nowhere about 2km from any kind of civilisation so hardly a focal point on Ireland's tourist trail. One of the strangest episodes in bus 'preservation' for sure.

[Yoss]

Okay, some Hungarian bus shite. 

Don't know what these are, don't recognise the logos. Badge says Credobus.??? 

 

I've been trying g to play with some trolleybuses in Budapest but the Pope is doing his best to thwart me. There's a sentence I never thought I'd say. But he has decided to time his visit to Budapest to coincide almost exactly with mine. Almost down to the hour. His plane is two hours behind mine tomorrow so I'm going to have fun getting to the airport tomorrow. But I digress. There's a trolleybus route a two minute walk from the hotel so I went out yesterday afternoon and they had all been cancelled. From the exact stop I was going to get on. But the unexpected thing was I watched one pull up then it dropped it's poles and drove off round the corner off the wires. 

It's one of these new Solaris things with Škoda running gear, as most trolleys here are now. So they obviously have batteries too which seems a good idea when you think about it. You wouldn't have to carry anywhere near the weight of a full electric bus and they can be recharged from the wires once you reconnect. 

Then last night I went to find somewhere to eat which just happened to be on two trolleybus routes. And whilst I was sitting there I saw three old Ikarus trolleys go past on the 78 but couldn't get pictures. Not really old obviously but older than the new Solaris's. So I thought when I got back off my day trip this afternoon I'd go and find some. Only to find the whole route had been cancelled because of the bleeding Pope. I guess they don't have the off grid capability of the new Solaris's. But for @martcs sake I pinched this off the internet. 

So they are still running when the Pope allows. 

So I went and found some routes that were running. Keleti station is a good place to start. Started with the 79 and the plan was to go to the end and come back to Hero's Square as there are two routes that run through City Park which look like nice scenic routes

But somewhere near the end of the 79 I saw a Wartburg estate and a booted mk1 Suzuki Swift parked together and thought that was too good a photo opportunity to miss so jumped off at the next stop. 

That's when it suddenly struck me there were no wires. So even on regular routes they run off grid.  So I watched some dropping their poles automatically yesterday but I have no idea how on earth they reattach them. There is a great seat at the front where you can watch the driver and when we stopped at the first stop back under the wires I saw him press a button but I couldn't see outside. But to be able to reattach the poles automatically is some clever bit of kit. 

Have some random trolleybus pictures. 

Poles down. 

Poles up. 

This is taken from the great front seat with an excellent view of the Danube. 

 

Incedentally this is the Wartburg/Swift combo I jumped off for. 

After which I realised I had 15 minutes in a communist era housing estate. The sort that in some places would make you feel decidedly uneasy. But it was a great place. There were old ladies sitting on benches with there little dogs and people playing table tennis on the permanent unvandalised table tennis tables set up in the communal area by the childrens playgrounds that seemed to be outside every block. And it was so green in between the blocks too. I could have spent longer there. 

[Yoss]

Hey @martc, I found one! 

It pulled away before I could get on and it was only a couple of hours before I had to leave for the airport but at least I got a reasonable picture. 

 

Just behind and around the corner from the above picture was this scene. 

This is a major road in to the city leading down to Nyugati station. I'm stood in the middle of the southbound carriageway at 0830 without a worry about being run over because the police have shut the road. The coaches are parked in the outbound lanes. I noticed a lot were Slovakian. 

I had to walk a bit further north to find some Tatra KT8s on tram route 14 taking me north into the suburbs, but crucially, away from the bloody Pope. Had a nice morning walking around some old railway buildings and communist era flats looking for chod. 

[martc]

6 hours ago, Yoss said:

Hey @martc, I found one! 

 

Ace, thanks. You're in Hungary - hopefully you're up to you neck with Ikaruses (Ikarusii?). Here's one now a 250 -

[martc]

Lovely Leyland bus wending over Tenters Street railway bridge, Bishop Auckland c1977. What is the significance of the OK (or is it 0K?) route number?

[Yoss]

1 hour ago, martc said:

Ace, thanks. You're in Hungary - hopefully you're up to you neck with Ikaruses (Ikarusii?). Here's one now a 250 -

Unfortunately I'm not in Hungary any more, got home this afternoon. Obviously there are none of those left, not in service anyway. There were the last time I was there in 2017. 

 

I was lucky that I could see both diesel and electric ones from our hotel room. 

 

And here's the front of one with a nice little inspectors hut. Possibly. 

[Leyland Worldmaster]

19 hours ago, martc said:

Lovely Leyland bus wending over Tenters Street railway bridge, Bishop Auckland c1977. What is the significance of the OK (or is it 0K?) route number?

OK Motor Services of Bishop Auckland. Was folded into Go North East in the early to mid 'nineties, I think... 😎 

[martc]

57 minutes ago, Leyland Worldmaster said:

OK Motor Services of Bishop Auckland. Was folded into Go North East in the early to mid 'nineties, I think... 😎 

That makes sense thanks. Looked like a destination number to me....

[Leyland Worldmaster]

4 minutes ago, martc said:

That makes sense thanks. Looked like a destination number to me....

Yes, it seemed to feature right up to the end of service; a batch of Northern Counties Leyland Atlanteans had that feature. Dead confusing as it does look like a Route Number! 😎 

 

Edited May 1, 2023 by Leyland Worldmaster
Wrong chassis!

[martc]

An IFA H6A, the trailer, for extra capacity, was a regular feature.

[willswitchengage]

What is going on here? There appears to be a bendy bus graveyard in Bristol. I recognise the FTRs - no idea what those are which look like greenhouses.

[busmansholiday]

1 hour ago, willswitchengage said:

no idea what those are which look like greenhouses.

Look like covered aircraft access steps (it is the old British Aerospace Filton site where Concord was built).

 Could well be First Bus's last resting space for their artics. Bottom right ones look like Wright StreetCars which they used in Swansea for a time after use in Leeds. Rest could be ex London or even the Cardiff ones.

 

[lisbon_road]

Winchester bus running day last Monday.  Surprise to see this.  An early Olympian, was with Ribble I think, then Stagecoach in Basingstoke and Chepstow Classic who apparently still own it.  Very smooth ride, someone know how to set these up. 

[Metal Guru]

Spotted  6 First bus double deckers (in two close groups of3) on the A66 on Sat pm. Not sure what make / model  but all looked shabby , don’t know if they were going for repaint or scrap  or to someone who’d won a school contract.

[artdjones]

On 5/1/2023 at 3:50 PM, martc said:

That makes sense thanks. Looked like a destination number to me....

One of the best run independents, with a rather glorious livery in earlier days.

For more:-

http://www.sct61.org.uk/index/operator/ok

[DVee8]

One of my FiL's busses.