37114 Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Some Bath buses from 2000ish Feels like it was only yesterday. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Co-tr-Paul Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 Bath in 2001, was doing Badgerline routes at the time so knew it well. Does it qualify for "old" and 20 years plus as posted earlier ?!! Well no low floors !! Doesn't seem old to me but Darts and Olympians are now part of the preservation scene ! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWTH Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 A couple of pictures from inside the big toy box: Exeter Corporation 17 and Midland Red North 1725 about to head to the Exeter running day, 19/03/17 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurenceb Posted May 18, 2017 Share Posted May 18, 2017 My first encounter with the VAL would be just after Barton Transport introduced them, this odd looking bus with six wheels appeared and I insisted on getting on. Ony problem was that it was going the wrong way! The Barton driver flagged down a Trent bs going the other way and a quick change to a Derby bound bus was made. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekEm8 Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Another veteran bus Ribble Leyland Heaton Park 4 September 2005 A few London well away from home Manchester Transport Museum 23 April 2006 Heaton Park 9 September2005 And the unique SHMD Atkinson DD Bus at Fleetwwod 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 Celebrating 30 years of Bristol REs, Bristol Festival of Transport, 199?, here's 8 of them ! That looks awfully familiar. I think I was there in 1991 so maybe then? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unicorn1 Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 This is RF 530, my own bus for seven years. I used to especially enjoy taking her to the North Weald Rally because soon after coming through the Dartford Tunnel I could pick up the old 250 route to Epping. RF530 worked the 250 for a while and I have a photo taken in the 1960's of the bus at this very bus stop, the Bull at Theydon Bois. I miss the bus terribly, but she's still around - and last I heard had a class 6 ticket as well. Les 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Co-tr-Paul Posted May 19, 2017 Share Posted May 19, 2017 That looks awfully familiar. I think I was there in 1991 so maybe then? I can't remember but weather was poor and was still being held at former Whitchurch aerodrome, now Hengrove bus depot is nearby! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 I can't remember but weather was poor and was still being held at former Whitchurch aerodrome, now Hengrove bus depot is nearby! As a newly licensed motorcyclist, I remember getting rained on a lot in 1991, although my abiding memory of Whitchurch Aerodrome is of a biting and icy wind sweeping across broken concrete . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 Ignore this post. Just a "thank you" to contributors and a kind of personal "placeholder" so the thread shows up in My Content. My name's Pete and I have a problem. I quite like buses... 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Co-tr-Paul Posted May 20, 2017 Share Posted May 20, 2017 I don't have a problem ; its the rest of the world......!! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Popular Post Enterprisingwestern Posted May 23, 2017 RMweb Gold Popular Post Share Posted May 23, 2017 2 for the price of one. 6525. Weymouth. 30.6.73. (and a coach). Mike. 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingley hall Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 (edited) A couple of East Kent Park Royal bodied AEC Regent Vs taken at Birchington sometime in 1971 Edited May 23, 2017 by bingley hall 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Co-tr-Paul Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 (edited) For those who go to rallies, here is a popular subject currently with Lodge's, Essex in its original Princess Mary, Staple Hill then Gloucestershire livery. Bedford SB/Duple Bella Vega EDD685C. Edited May 23, 2017 by Co-tr-Paul 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERS Posted May 23, 2017 Share Posted May 23, 2017 For those who go to rallies, here is a popular subject currently with Lodge's, Essex in its original Princess Mary, Staple Hill then Gloucestershire livery. Bedford SB/Duple Bella Vega EDD685C. IMG_20170521_183346.jpg Can we have one of these please Oxford? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37114 Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Seen parked up at the side of the road tonight on an evening cycle: 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERS Posted May 24, 2017 Share Posted May 24, 2017 Seen parked up at the side of the road tonight on an evening cycle: WP_20170524_19_56_50_Pro.jpg how long's it been there?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BrushVeteran Posted May 24, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted May 24, 2017 Well here is a picture of one of the buses I own, this one being my first one purchased in 1972. Now this does make me feel old!!! 24 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37114 Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 how long's it been there?! Since the weekend, I think it was used at last weekends Chippenham bus rally. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisf Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Since the weekend, I think it was used at last weekends Chippenham bus rally. If that is the one I think it is, someone fitted the horn from a Class 40 to it. Earplugs at the ready ... Chris 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERS Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 Since the weekend, I think it was used at last weekends Chippenham bus rally. Its not been on layover since 1979 then! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted May 25, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 25, 2017 Well here is a picture of one of the buses I own, this one being my first one purchased in 1972. Now this does make me feel old!!! 6137175933_3f6287a6a3_z.jpg Morrell's is (or was?) not a bad pint either. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
37114 Posted May 25, 2017 Share Posted May 25, 2017 If that is the one I think it is, someone fitted the horn from a Class 40 to it. Earplugs at the ready ... Chris Aah, I have seen a video of it somewhere, didn't realise it was the same bus! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bingley hall Posted May 26, 2017 Share Posted May 26, 2017 The two pics posted earlier were the only two decent shots I got of East Kent buses at work. It was over 40 years later before I got another chance to photograph them, obviously by now in preservation. Regent Vs at the Herne Bay - 9 August 2015. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jon Fitness Posted May 29, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted May 29, 2017 Had an excellent day at the Ribble Vehicle Preservation Trust's Morecambe running event on Sunday. From many vehicles that were there on the Prom, these were a few of the many which were running a free service between Heysham/Morecambe/ Carnforth. There was also a short circular run out from Morecambe via Bare. This was on the latter service A 1938 Leyland TD5, rebodied postwar with a lowbridge body. Next up from Morecambe to Heysham then all the way through to Carnforth was this 1967 Blackpool Leyland PD3 with a Met-Cam body. On Carnforth Station is this excellent little boozer called the Snug. Highly recommended for a nice range of ales and convivial atmosphere. On Sundays, some of the locals bring in freshly cooked snacks for all to nibble on! Taking us back as far as Morecambe in fine style was this 1958 Barrow Corporation PD2 which has recently gained a refurbished engine. Another run out on the Bare circular was taken on this Blackburn Guy Arab with a Crossley body. The only open topper at the event was this ex Ribble Bristol VR Mk1 which after being transferred to Eastern Counties was given a chop top! As the sun was out it would have been rude not to so off to Carnforth and back again. Final run of the day was taken on the star of the show (for me anyway!) a Ribble Leyland PD3/5 "tank" . Very loud and snorty with a melodious pneumocyclic gearbox, it did a passable impersonation of a first generation DMU and made all the right PD3 sounds. Great end to an excellent day. The program was £3 and all our loose change made it into various collection tins. Hope fully my own bus will be attending next year if I can get my @rse in gear and finish it! JF 25 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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