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Does anyone like busses. 

Incoming mega bus dump. 

 

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  • Jim Bell changed the title to Chod North East. Spotting through time. *Bus dump*

Cheers for this one, just about every type covered there. 

My favourites are the Metro-Scanias, supposedly very fast, thirsty and definitely rusty and the Alexander bodied.Atlanteans.

Glasgow operators have been home to a fair few of the buses pictured over the years . After the Strathclyde's Buses Larkfield Depot fire in May 1992 where around 50 buses were destroyed, some of the Alexander bodied Atlanteans were replaced with very similar looking ones from Newcastle. Much later, in the early 2000s, Magic Bus, the Low Cost* arm of Stagecoach, operated some C-LFT Olympians. Most had the pneumatic HELP front bumper removed.

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That was a big bus dump!

Good to see a Leyland National at the Metrocentre bus station. That brings back memories of the 1990's.

True strory - I once attended a 'bus rally' at the Metrocentre coach park. I was disappointed to find that they were static displays and not sliding around like mk2 Escorts!! To be fair, I was only 6. I remember buying a big Leyland 'plug hole of doom' badge, I've still got it up in my garage.

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2 hours ago, mk2_craig said:

Interesting looking devices those things! Almost like half the front end of a double decker grafted onto some North American product of the fifties. 

Leyland Panther with Strachan body, never a common chassis / body combination.

 

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Some cracking pics there, the Trolleybus was my favourite but good to see some of the stuff they borrowed during the vehicle shortage (Bournemouth Atlantean). Remember going there to ride on the ex Leeds Regents they acquired (just spotted one in the background to a pic) then getting off one of those straight onto a new Metropolitan decker. Oh happy days !!

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11 hours ago, Jim Bell said:

Does anyone like busses. 

Incoming mega bus dump. 

 

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Brilliant photos there! Thank you ever so much for sharing! Strange to see a United Vehicle in green! 👍 👍 👍 😎 😎 😎 

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When I first started at work our training buses were Alexander PS bodied Volvo B10Ms, we had about 4 or 5 in service as well. Excellent buses, went like fuck and very reliable. Mind you we had some Optare Excels at the same time that were utter shit, forever breaking down and bits falling off them

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  • Jim Bell changed the title to Chod North East. Spotting through time.
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26 minutes ago, chaseracer said:

Also, is that the Vickers Armstrong tank plant across the river?  In my final year at Geordie Poly (at the other end of the 80s) I lived somewhere at the top of that grey mass of shite housing creeping up the hill...

In my piccie/map.....

Arrow RED photo direction of view.

RED box.. Tank Factory (at Scotswood Br.)

YELLOW box.. Machining and Metals Div (also where my Apprentice Training School was located).

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5 minutes ago, tooSavvy said:

In my piccie/map.....

Arrow RED photo direction of view.

RED box.. Tank Factory (at Scotswood Br.)

YELLOW box.. Machining and Metals Div (also where my Apprentice Training School was located).

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There used to be a council tip (as they were known back then) just off the Scotswood Road. Many happy memories of going there on a Sunday morning past the tank parked outside of Vickers.

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1 hour ago, Jim Bell said:

1995,  north end of the QEII Rail bridge. 

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I hear that the rolling stock, on Metro, is so clapped out nowadays..... they can't 'switch off' the chassis, at Benton Depot, and the *neighbours complain.

*No Neighbours at new depot - by the tip, Wallsend 👍

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8 minutes ago, Blake's Den said:

Rawling Road Gateshead 1990. That Mini has seen better days 😮FB_IMG_1650787835962.thumb.jpg.8a5dc5e19dcaab749b11145d26753f4e.jpg

That's got all your major food groups represented. 

You've got your French. You've got your German. You've got your American, and you've got your broken English. 

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