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[busmansholiday]

"Abbeyways" of Hafilax eh, not that far from me. When was that as I'll put feelers out for any pics of it then.

[Felly Magic]

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!!! The tram & trolleybus museum at Carlton Colville near that there Lowstuff in East Angular is set for major expansion, it's not a bad place to visit, and now it's about to get much betterer LOL, a couple of NIMBY's moaned and objected, but the council gave said belly achers a 2 fingered salute. It's not a bad gaff as it is, and the expansion will mean it is even more worthwhile to visit, I think it is much nicer than 'Scraptoft' at Axholme, shame there is nowhere near to camp en masse for a possible future Shitefest. 

 

http://www.lowestoftjournal.co.uk/news/east-anglia-transport-museum-planning-approval-1-5558979

 

 

 

 

[Eddie Honda]

 

Oh bollocks!

[Noel Tidybeard]

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Oh bollocks!

 

whoops!

[Guest Hooli]

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Oh bollocks!

 

What did you go n do that for?

[Noel Tidybeard]

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE!!! The tram & trolleybus museum at Carlton Colville near that there Lowstuff in East Angular is set for major expansion, it's not a bad place to visit, and now it's about to get much betterer LOL, a couple of NIMBY's moaned and objected, but the council gave said belly achers a 2 fingered salute. It's not a bad gaff as it is, and the expansion will mean it is even more worthwhile to visit, I think it is much nicer than 'Scraptoft' at Axholme, shame there is nowhere near to camp en masse for a possible future Shitefest. 

 

http://www.lowestoftjournal.co.uk/news/east-anglia-transport-museum-planning-approval-1-5558979

 

 

i must agree that this is a fine place to visit and i may* have been more than once

[rml2345]

Just passed my PCV test in this;

 

https://www.flickr.com/photos/45168281@N05/24192295334/

[Eddie Honda]

Saw one of these goppers (a Van Hool Exqui.city 18m single bendy Trambus) this morning just outside Larne.

 

2018-04 Translink Glider 007 by WeeYellowBus, on Flickr

[Zelandeth]

Holy hell that's ugly...

[Guest Hooli]

Well done! Give it two weeks and you’ll be as bitter and twisted as the drivers who’ve been there decades.

 

Are you saying he's a slow learner?

 

I was considering deliberately failing my PSV test years ago, just to stay on the training bus & avoid the public.

[Felly Magic]

This is basically an updated POS on the Failed To Run concept by Wrighshite/Ovlov, an experimant that cost Worstbus & councils millions, for a service life of way under 10 years, they are even using roughly the same purple base!

[Guest Hooli]

This belongs here

 

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/bus-driver-wrongly-thanked-for-bus-journey-20170113120146

[Yoss]

Had a little run out with a couple of ex Southampton Regents this evening.

 

When people use the phrase 'looks like the back end of a bus' they obviously haven't seen these as I think they are rather attractive.

 

This is near the old Floating Bridge terminus. The bridge in the background opened in 1977. Before that buses terminated both sides of the river with a pair of chain ferries (hence, floating bridge) going back and forth.

Not a great picture as it was almost into the sun, and ideally we'd have liked to have parked where the lorries were as there you can frame the buses in one of the arches of the Itchen Bridge but it wasn't to be.

[busmansholiday]

Love the miniroundabout pic, my way of dealing with them!

[lisbon_road]

Impressive to see two Regents with such close registrations.  Looks like someone has rescued a P&R Dart there too.  

[busmansholiday]

Impressive to see two Regents with such close registrations.

Unlike Routemasters where not having a reg close to yours is a badge of honour (and I like them)

[lanciamatt]

Just been looking through this thread, very interesting. I love a bus my favourite has got to be a mk1 Leyland national I love them. When I was growing up they were everywhere and Barnsley and District used them until about early 2000s I think. I can remember waiting for our school bus to come and another schools bus came around same estate, there's was a battered early mk1 national. Obviously there were some school rivalry egg throwing etc. There bus driver came up with a genius solution. When driving past he dropped it into neutral and revved the hell out if it. We all ran for cover as that much black smoke was coming out you couldn't see you hand in front of your face. I do love the 510 engine

[Yoss]

Impressive to see two Regents with such close registrations.  Looks like someone has rescued a P&R Dart there too.

 

Yes that Dart is now preserved. I personally can't see why you'd want one but it takes all sorts and it's good that someone is taking on the newer stuff. I say newer stuff but it's an N reg which makes it about 1995 which makes me feel rather old. My RM was 25 when we first bought it and it seemed really old at the time. This is now 23 and doesn't seem old at all. But then I was only 20 then and now I'm not! Just goes to show that time is a relative concept and nothing is real.

 

 

It is an ex Southampton CityBus one so it fits in with the rest of the buses there. It's probably quite rare (Though I'm no Dart expert) as it's not a low floor bus.

[Vantman]

Yes that Dart is now preserved. I personally can't see why you'd want one but it takes all sorts and it's good that someone is taking on the newer stuff. I say newer stuff but it's an N reg which makes it about 1995 which makes me feel rather old. My RM was 25 when we first bought it and it seemed really old at the time. This is now 23 and doesn't seem old at all. But then I was only 20 then and now I'm not! Just goes to show that time is a relative concept and nothing is real.

 

 

It is an ex Southampton CityBus one so it fits in with the rest of the buses there. It's probably quite rare (Though I'm no Dart expert) as it's not a low floor bus.

 

I have an illustrated genuine Dennis Dart parts manual if the owner is in need of one?

[Guest Hooli]

Darts go sideways really easily on wet concrete floors near bus washes....

[sierraman]

I miss the sound of those old Nationals, I think the ones Yorkshire Terror used still had the 510 in them. They had a massive fleet of them.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't The Port of Dover use a load of ex London Nationals until recently?

[lanciamatt]

All Barnsley and District nationals has the 510 still in. But another bus company started up in Barnsley, I think called jowetts or headlight bus company. There were nationals but all were re engined

[lanciamatt]

Another memorable coach experience was the other year, me and my gf were in holiday in Croatia and we went on a day trip to mostar in Bosnia. Shortly after crossing border in Bosnia we stopped fir toilet break in a road side cafe type place. Everyone came off our coach and went to lav etc. I could hear a noise in distance getting louder which rose my curiosity levels. I said to my other half that something was coming that sounded a bit beefy she wasn't remotely interested as I'd pointed out about a 1000 old yugos already. Next thing everyone turned round, a 1980s setra came past doing about 90 overtaking on wrong side of road smoke bellowing out of back sounded awsome

[busmansholiday]

All Barnsley and District nationals has the 510 still in. But another bus company started up in Barnsley, I think called jowetts or headlight bus company. There were nationals but all were re engined

Neil Oldfield bought half a dozen ex Western SMT Y type Leopards. He kept the best for his firm, Aldham Coaches and flogged the rest to Tom Jowett who was based at Tankersley. Both competed with Trackie on different routes. Tom moved the buses down to Low Valley, next to Aldham Coaches and eventually started replacing the Leopards with Nationals before selling out to Trackie. They renamed it B&D and expanded and moved to Wakefield Road. I was on the Kex service with Aldham (we had a National, I think they are shite) the Sunday FAC gave Tom's staff the news. Boy were they pissed off.

[Yoss]

Took the bus to Alton rally at the weekend. I know there's a lot of anti Routemaster feeling on here so here's some pics.

 

Random shiny Routemaster.

 

Random shiny Routemaster.

 

Autoshite members unshiny Routemaster.

 

Includes lots of flaking and bubbly paint.

 

And half the seats are unusable because it also makes a useful shed.

 

 

 

 

More Autoshite friendly buses to follow...

[Yoss]

This made me smile parked in amongst the bigger buses and their survival rate must be close to zero.

So good on whoever has preserved this. And it really did look tidy.

 

Metrobus Olympian if that makes sense.

 

Nice RE coach though I wonder how good the aircon is in this weather.

 

Tatty looking Titan with Emsworth and District fleetnames.

 

Couple of ex London Metrobuses together.

 

There was a time when the Alton rally was practically the Leyland National owners club national (pun very much intended). There would be dozens there. These seem to have dried up recently. I don't think I saw more than five.

I think this may be that people were buying them straight out of service for a few hundred pounds. Most of those have now failed MOT or just broken and are now lying around yards and barns around the country or are already scrapped.

 

 

And I'll leave you with this.

It always struck me as odd that LT could use black number plates until the mid 80s. These rear ones have translucent numerals with a light behind but in damp conditions the outer perspex panel would steam up making them unreadable. The front ones weren't even real number plates, just a bit of ally painted black with white transfers on. Many of them kept these plates when sold on (see the Emsworth Titan above) even though these smaller companies would never have been allowed to buy a bus new with these plates.

[Inspector Morose]

One of the weird anomalies of the PSV world was that white on black number plates were permitted until the last style change, I believe. Although perfectly legal across the country, only London (and Edinburgh, I believe) perpetuated with this style.

The black painted aluminium plates had the numbers painted on, using a stencil set before the ubiquitous vinyl lettering took over.

I looked into this when we bought a shit tonne of ex London short nationals for operation way back when. A good few came with black front plates but yellow rears and I wondered if that was legal out of London - it was!

[LightBulbFun]

very nice shots im surprised iv not been lynched to death around here considering my profile picture

 

 the inside shots reminds me of a Routemaster I once hitchhike on once where the owner popped out one of the seat cushions the resulting empty seat frame then made for a perfect spare wheel holder 

 

I have also wondered about how LT got away with using white on black plates for so long after everyone else had to switch over, but I never knew that the rear ones on some buses where backside illuminated thats pretty cool

 

(as I come from an LT bus background so to speak rather then a car background, I used to think think ALL white on black plates where meant to be just a bit of whatever painted black with white transfers on and id always get annoyed when I saw otherwise on anything else!,  I still do get annoyed when its a Routemaster with the wrong (style) reg plates..., esp if it has those awful silver on black plates those dont look good at all on RMs, at least I have never seen an RT disgraced with such a set...)

 

EDIT:

 

thanks for the info FPB7 (your post only showed up on my end when i clicked send on my message whoops...)

[Inspector Morose]

  I still do get annoyed when its a Routemaster with the wrong (style) reg plates...,

 

Good job you didn't live up north then..

 

[Inspector Morose]

Oh and, well, just because....