Guest jim s-w Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Hi All Found this! http://www.flickr.com/photos/homer----simpson/4042952621/ Gives a new meaning to the term railbus! Cheers Jim Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ste234 Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Doesnt look like standard gauge to me Would be kind of cool if it could run on rails aswell mind! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
noiseboy72 Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 http://www.wsr.org.uk/roadrail.htm More info for you ! It was indeed standard gauge. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cctransuk Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 http://www.wsr.org.uk/roadrail.htm More info for you ! It was indeed standard gauge. Doesn't look to be the same vehicle to me ! Regards, John Isherwood. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DVLR Dave Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Sorry to disapoint you-this isn't the same vehicle. MUA45P was a Bristol LHS that operated for West Yorkshire PTE-I remember seeing it regularly when it passed to Steve Stockdale of Selby who used it on his network of town routes just after deregulation-it was only ever a road vehicle. I assume that it is now a preserved vehicle with a fictional livery or did the PTE apply a livery like this to advertise the rail routes it supported? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 Not the same vehicle! Incidentally, the one on the WSR also visited St.Ives Cambs around the same time, I saw (& photographed) it in the old Sinclair Mill site. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERS Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 There have been several railbuses over the years, as far as I know none were ever regauged to 4'8 1/2. United Counties ran two coaches (Leyland Leopard-Plaxton Supreme IV Express, MRP 242 and 243V)in a blue-grey BR coach scheme from 1980 to about 1984 on the Kettering - Peterborough rail link and Birds of Hunstanton ran one (a Ford R1115 - Duple Dominant IV) on the Peterborough Kings Lynn link which lasted a bit longer. The Birds vehicle was replaced with an ECW bodied Leopard when Eastern Counties took the service over from Birds. Of course these were all coaches, so no yellow ends.... Much later, Arriva Midland Fox ran a pair of Plaxton Beavers in full Midland Mainline colours for the Kettering - Corby link, Corgi did a model of one of these. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edwin_m Posted December 30, 2009 Share Posted December 30, 2009 These ones still run and also have yellow ends! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
noiseboy72 Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 I know its not the same vehicle. I just thought you might like to see "the Future" from 1980 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted December 31, 2009 RMweb Gold Share Posted December 31, 2009 Sorry guys, this is MY idea of a railbus! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burkitt Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 What about this for a railbus: http://mick-stillwell.fotopic.net/p37357653.html Created in 1991 for a London Travelcard advert, the front and chassis are a DMS bus, the middle a 1973 stock tube train and the rear a class 321. Paul Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
divibandit Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 Now that'd be head-turner at a show...especially if it was on Faller car system and /or had rail wheels! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERS Posted December 31, 2009 Share Posted December 31, 2009 What about this for a railbus: http://mick-stillwell.fotopic.net/p37357653.html Created in 1991 for a London Travelcard advert, the front and chassis are a DMS bus, the middle a 1973 stock tube train and the rear a class 321. Paul Looks like it could be a bit out of gauge.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord-Claud-Hamilton Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 Not the same vehicle! Incidentally, the one on the WSR also visited St.Ives Cambs around the same time, I saw (& photographed) it in the old Sinclair Mill site. A 'prelude' to the (mis)Guided Bus scheme perhaps? Do you have many shots of St. Ives? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewartingram Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 A 'prelude' to the (mis)Guided Bus scheme perhaps? Do you have many shots of St. Ives? A few, did the line on the last day, also been collecting pics off the net etc. pm me ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandshifter Posted January 1, 2010 Share Posted January 1, 2010 Sorry to disapoint you-this isn't the same vehicle. MUA45P was a Bristol LHS that operated for West Yorkshire PTE-I remember seeing it regularly when it passed to Steve Stockdale of Selby who used it on his network of town routes just after deregulation-it was only ever a road vehicle. I assume that it is now a preserved vehicle with a fictional livery or did the PTE apply a livery like this to advertise the rail routes it supported? I have a vague memory of a vehicle so painted appearing at a Doncaster Works open day back in the 1980s, although in my mind it was in the later green/cream livery. I therefore suspect that this is the vehicle and it has been restored to an earlier livery! That DMS/Tube/321 is certainly different, although I wouldn't want to be the guy who has to get to the engine to fix it... Colin Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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