Bus Shite

[CreepingJesus]

From memory, those are 21500KG unladen

 

 

 

The bus is 13'2" tall and I'd say another 3 feet for the front of the trailer.

16'2"...looks about right. I always think these things should be measured properly with the correct device, but the maths is simple enough and probably accurate.

So those aren't 4m? That's 13'1" iirc.

[CreepingJesus]

That is a big old arseload of shite. Epic. Dibs on the F...no, the...all three actually.

[Felly Magic]

That RELH is a late Panorama with a facelift Supreme front panel, I bet the body is well rotten, lots of wood and steel, Bristol lickers would spaff over that for ages

[quicksilver]

Real shame to see the Vista Coachways Bristol looking like that. I know the previous owner and he always kept it very smart - like all of his vehicles, real and model, it's all hand-painted by him with no vinyls. Here's how it used to look: https://flic.kr/p/8wP51G

[Vantman]

Saw this little beauty in Hastings last week.

 

[Vantman]

[64A60]

Hot LT Country Area action this weekend:

 

 

[Roverageous]

Hot LT Country Area action this weekend:

 

 

 

Fucking hell - has to be the weekend I'm working both days. IN CHESHAM. 'Kinell.

[Snipes]

I use to live in Chesham.

[davidfowler2000]

April 22nd 2017

 

This year marks 50 years of operationg of Northern Ireland's principal bus operator, Ulsterbus. This was marked at the annual running day hosted by the Irish Transport Heritage at the Ulster Folk and Transport museum, Cultra.

 

As has become tradition, delegates from The SVM as well as the greater Scotoshite were in attendance however seeing as it was Ulsterbus 50, Mr cms206 organised for one of his work's motors to attend seeing as it was new to Ulsterbus Goldliner duties.

 

A modest selection of photos from myself is at my Flickr album : https://flic.kr/s/aHskYsEAKF : and I will post a couple of samples below...

 

-Dave

 

Ulsterbus 50 by David Fowler, on Flickr

 

Ulsterbus 50 by David Fowler, on Flickr

 

Ulsterbus 50 by David Fowler, on Flickr

 

Ulsterbus 50 by David Fowler, on Flickr

 

Ulsterbus 50 by David Fowler, on Flickr

 

Ulsterbus 50 by David Fowler, on Flickr

[quicksilver]

There can't be many Metroliners still working for a living but I stumbled across this one at Bicester Heritage doing duty as a racing car transporter

 

SWB Motorsport C50 VJU by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

 

SWB Motorsport C50 VJU by Adam Floyd, on Flickr

[RoadworkUK]

What a lovely thing! The rear lights are very like those of a Duple 320/340... something I've not seen on the road in at least a decade

[lisbon_road]

The Bristol was UFJ229J, a Greensades Tours RE from about '71.  Not that that fact gets us anywhere closer to it being fixed up again.....

[Stroller133]

I was briefly at a bus show at the GCR Quorn station on Saturday. Went on what I think was a Routemaster, but painted in the livery of a Leicestershire bus firm called Browns Blues? I thought Routemasters were London only?

[Felly Magic]

Clost it's an AEC RT ex London Transport, nice to see one not red or green for a change

[Stroller133]

This was my favourite of the show:

[CreepingJesus]

Not my pic, but it's epic in practically every respect...

[bramz7]

I'm in Thessaloniki at the moment and they have some 'proper' buses here. Particular highlight is the locally bodied Volvo B10 artics from the early 90s....

[clayts450]

This has been a great read, as in my youth I was a bit of a bus-licker.

 

I was in London Country land (St Albans) so during my youth was 'treated' to a mix of AEC Merlins, Swifts, Reliances (both Green Line coaches and buses), Nationals (short and long versions, but no National 2s), Olympians, Bristol LHs, Tigers (Green Line) and Leopards (Green Line) and probably a few more I've forgotten. We also had the privilege of being the northern most visited town by London Transport (route 84) so got treated to all sorts - Daimlers, more Merlins, Metros and various Euroboxes thereafter.

 

Thanks for the person who posted the cold-start National video - that took me back ! Just did a quick squiz on Google for a pic of a 'properly liveried' National and was delighted to discover one of my old 'clan' has been preserved (SNB 312)

 

[Vantman]

I spotted one of these whilst on the M27 last weekend,could someone identify it please.

 

[quicksilver]

It's the latest version of the Neoplan Cityliner.

[Inspector Morose]

Starliner. Now unavailable right hand drive sadly as I think the new ones look epic, as do most things from the Neoplan stable (euro liner excepted).

[clayts450]

I posted a huge message on here when I was still in my nappy (first 5 posts have to be approved, blah blah blah) and it never appeared which was a bit disheartening....

 

However, whenever it was (a few days back) I had avidly read through this entire topic as I was a bit of a bus licker in my youth (well it beat glue-sniffing and football hooliganism which were the only other activities available to me at that time).

 

Who-ever posted the vid of a National cold start, thank you - that brought back so many memories. I was in London Country territory (St Albans) and experienced a wide range of vehicles - AEC Merlins, Swifts, Reliances (bus and coach versions), Nationals, Bristol LHs, Tigers and Leopards (the last two coach versions). We also had the most northern-bound red bus route, the 84, which threw up all sorts of shite, again Merlins but also those disastrous Daimlers, as well as Metros and National2s. London Country even ran the red bus route for a while (bought in some shiny new Olympians) before it was farmed out to some company or other.

 

I suppose my lasting memory was of the Nationals - in St Albans you literally had every iteration going - standard Nationals (single and dual door) which London Country referred to as Long Nationals (LN/LNB/LNC class - the C laughingly referred to as Coach - with bus seats) and then the majority were shorter versions, all single door, with longer roof pods, shorter pods or no pod at all (SNB/SNC - this time the C was right to an extent as these Nationals had coach seats). The 84 also was run with National 2s by LT.

 

I got all nostalgic and have spent this afternoon reading up Ian Smith's excellent website at http://www.countrybus.org, and was delighted to see that one of the old St Albans-garaged Nationals has been preserved - SNB312

 

 

 

I like the back shot of these as all London Country Nationals seemed to have the Portman Building Society adverts - the other bus is one of the coach-seated Nationals, SNC168

 

 

Somewhere lurking in my attic is all my bus-licking stuff from the 1980s - I may need to dig this out....

[clayts450]

Here's another ex-St Albans garaged National that's not doing quite so well

 

 

In it's better days, pulling out from the garage

 

https://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=42993&page=1324

[clayts450]

We're getting fart buses in Nottingham:

 

 

https://www.nctx.co.uk/2017/05/were-going-gas/

 

http://www.biogas.org.uk/news/nottingham-city-transports-plans-to-deliver-greener-and-cleaner-transport-for-nottingham-city

[Felly Magic]

Here's another ex-St Albans garaged National that's not doing quite so well

 

 

In it's better days, pulling out from the garage

 

https://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=42993&page=1324

I spot a Volvo powered Mk2 National with LT seats there

[Split_Pin]

Ian Smiths Bus Stop is always the first place I go for London Bus info. The drawings are wonderfully simple as well, I'm so glad he hasn't changed the style since the site started what must have been nearly 20 years ago.

[clayts450]

Totally agree - it's a proper old school website (designed in Notepad), no Flash, HTML5 or other diverting buffoonery, just facts, facts, facts in a digestible form.

 

I spent most of Saturday afternoon (when I should have been fixing my fence) glued to his reports of the running days a few years back in St Albans - his use of words and photos made me feel like I was there - he picks out such level of detail in his observations, very easy to read.

[Six-cylinder]

Mrs 6C wants to go back to School!

 

Yesterday Mrs 6C donated some apple trees to a school locally and was amazed to see this bus parked in their grounds, on enquiring she was told it was the school library and not running. What is is it and how old is it?

[mrcitroen]

Looks like a Bristol VR.

 

Cool idea as a school library. Would have made me more keen to read!