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The rear nearside of a RL bodied Metrobus
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First Glasgow 31520 a lowhieght Royale
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| Would like to see what these would be like on the 20. The newer P and R reg, long wheelbase versions of these done quite well. Personally, i think these ones sound better what with their really loud and engine and the nice whine you get off the gearbox |
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| Thes buses would be excellent on the 20 there excellent buses on the Cumbernauld Express runs and also I know they would be good on the 20 as well cause whenever Motherwells ones have done the 203 the odd time they have been great oing Fernhill Road. |
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A Selection of Former MacBraynes Vehicles
Lathalmond 2004 - Saturday & GVVVT 2004 Open Day |
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| they took it for a small drive! i was there and i know some of the macbraynes people! |
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| YOU'RE COOL, CAN I BE IN YOUR GANG????! |
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Another View of 31526
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| This is another excellent bus goes some speed i wish we had more in the First Glasgow fleet. |
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| think this bus is off now was in a crash badly damaged i think |
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The Front of an RH bodied Ailsa
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| Another excellent type of bus. |
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A Recent Addition to the First Glasgow Fleet
Lathalmond 2005 - Saturday 20 August |
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| I seen this bus on the 20 to East Kilbride crossing Rutherglen Main Street yesterday. It looked quite impressive, the first time I have seen it in public service. Will there be any more on way to transfer some of the number 20 over to a partial low-floor service. |
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| I seen one in December on the 18 as well. |
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| very weird thats a rare working havent seen em on out else but 11 and 36 |
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| I have seen it on 175 (Glasgow-Campsie Glen) as well. |
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| I seen 32827 on the X6 with 61619 on the same day when it was scotstoun volvo olympians that should have been running it |
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31350 is an Early Dual Door, RH bodied Olympian
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| Words cannot express how much i hate this vehicle. It has 2 gears (slow and not so slow) giving a top speed of 30mph. You might say "So what? Most roads are 30 anyways" but on the 20 going up the East Kilbride Dual carriageway, it's just plain painful. Not only does it have only 2 gears, but getting from 1st into 2nd is nothing short of a miracle after a good couple of minutes of full revs in 1st.
Then there's the exhaust. About 99% of the time ive been on the vehicle, there has either been a hole in the manifold or a gasket has blown causing black smoke to belch into the main cabin. It's not too difficult to spot it when the sun catches it right. You can also still see the black staining above the rear near-side seats from the time i was on the bus and had to tell the driver about it when i got off from the shere volume of black smoke and noise coming from the engine bay. |
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| The amount of times I've been on this bus it's been fine I've never seen black smoke pouring from engine and that's been sitting up the back I don't think it's a bad bus it is better than 31526 that's was slugglish and it does go faster than thirty my uncle got 45 out of it when he was driving it along Glasgow Road mind you it does take a while to get up to that also you've got to remember it's First Glasgow the buses don't get maintained that well. |
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| The only time ive been on this bus when it went over 30mph was going down the dual carriageway from East kilbride to Cathkin. Even then, the only way it could gather speed was for the driver to put it in neutral and let it coast down the big steel hill |
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| This wasn't a bad bus when it was on the 20 I thougtht it was quite i would say 31526 was worse. |
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| They were both excellent in my view. |
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2006-05-12 19:40:52 |
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| Most of you will be glad to know that this bus is now at Campbells scrapyard in Alexandria! |
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| I liked this bus, shame to hear it gone - same with 31526. |
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| I liked 31526 and 31530 as well they were two great buses. |
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A Nottingham City Coaches Double Deck
A Day in Nottingham |
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Another Western Double
After The Fire, Vehicles Hired After The Larkfield Fire |
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After The Fire, Vehicles Hired After The Larkfield Fire |
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| THIS IS NOT A FIRE BURN BUS, THIS IS A LATER BUS |
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| this bus was one of seven or so bought from first grampian in 1997. all withdrawn by 1998 |
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| THIS ONE WAS AT THE LAST LA DAY |
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| You can clearly see this has First logos, and so it is a later bus. |
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| Only 4 atlanteans from Grampian went into service in 1997. (with fleet numbers LA1450-3) I can't remember all their reg nos, but there were 3 HSO...V and 1 LRS...W registration. |
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One Of The Western Doubles
After The Fire, Vehicles Hired After The Larkfield Fire |
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A GRT Group Atlantean
After The Fire, Vehicles Hired After The Larkfield Fire |
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A Dennis Dominator Demonstrator?
After The Fire, Vehicles Hired After The Larkfield Fire |
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| That bus, if I read the plate correctly, is J94DJV
I put it into www.buslistsontheweb.co.uk and it came up as being new to Grimsby Cleethorpes. |
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2007-07-20 14:55:34 |
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| It was on loan from Grimsby Cleethorpes, and if I remember right, it nexer got a C9xx fleetnumber, unlike all the other borrowed buses. |
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A Part Painted Western Double
After The Fire, Vehicles Hired After The Larkfield Fire |
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A Royale Line Up in BBS
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| all deckers in the photo are olympians interestingly - the silver coach is a hutchison duple 340 |
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Arriva 7450, A Northern Counties Bodied Olympian
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| Nice to see former DN7 as I remember her with London United and Arriva Southern Counties and moved onto Maidstone and now is in the North East...
Wongers...
http://londonbuspics.fotopic.net/ |
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The Former Western Leopard
Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust Open Day 8 October 2006 |
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Former Stagecoach? 25728 In The Line Of Preserved Vehicles
Stagecoach Western Kilmarnock 75th Anniversary Open Day |
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| This indeed believe it or not is still part of the Western fleet as a heritage vehicle and used to be found on Arran doing the Brodick Castle runs but this is now done by 16864 the open top Olympian, Great photos! |
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| on long term loan to the Beith Transport Museum |
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SF04 HXM In Wishaw
Hutchison Coaches - Last Day Of Local Service Operation |
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| This is SF04HXW Andrew. Great photos, nice to see I appear in this collection 3 times! |
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SN03 CLX & SK02 ZYH Together In Motherwell
Hutchison Coaches - Last Day Of Local Service Operation |
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| Great photo Andrew! That's me at the wheel of ZYH (the happy looking guy!). Note my bus didn't have a vault fitted yet like the bus to the left. I had my bus taken off me later in the night so it could be taken away for vault fitting for service on Monday 2nd July. |
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SN03 CLY In Wishaw On Service 2
Hutchison Coaches - Last Day Of Local Service Operation |
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| Service 1 Andrew (Larkhall - Forgewood) now replaced by First 242 |
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Eastern Scottish Y Type Coach BFS 463L Inside The Workshop
Lathalmond 2007 - The Sunday |
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2007-08-30 12:47:12 |
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| This is actually Rod Wallaces Bristol Motorway coach not a leopard, I have no idea why they left the old front at the front of the bus, to confuse people I guess |
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The Las Vegas Enviro Leaving No Doubt As To It's Destination
Lathalmond 2007 - The Sunday |
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2007-08-27 00:39:48 |
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| About time the US got some high-class fleet!!! - Send them some Panthers!!! |
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A Newly Delivered Scania For Lothian's Airlink Fleet
Lathalmond 2007 - The Sunday |
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| Andrew. May I congratulate you on the superb selection of photographs from the Lathalmond event.
Regrettably, I didn't attend this year due to the inclement weather on the Saturday. You wisely chose to visit on Sunday, which appears to be a good deal drier. I'm impressed by the front, side and rear views that you have selected, giving a good indication of the vehicles. Excellent stuff.
Regards, John.
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The Nearside Of New Bova SK07 FOM
Lathalmond 2007 - The Sunday |
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Leopard GCS 35V Still In The Livery Of Oban Buses
Lathalmond 2007 - The Sunday |
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| It in West Coast Motors livery not Oban & Districct livery. I was on this bus on a service run from Lochgilphead to Ardrishaig back in March ad it my favourite bus that West Coast have owned. I dont like J80WCM its replacement, a Dennis Dart with an ugly Plaxton Pointer body. |
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Stagecoach Fife? 53279, SP07 HHF
Lathalmond 2007 - The Sunday |
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| Do you know why this Stagecoach bus has leather seats?? |
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The Offside Of 53279, With Aircon? On The Roof
Lathalmond 2007 - The Sunday |
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| Very Weird Stagecoach Purchase......do you know why it is a stagecoahc vehicle??
Also is that leather seats inside it...i think so :S |
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Weirs Tourlink Leopard
GVVT Open Day - 14 October 2007 |
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2007-10-17 18:19:38 |
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Milligans MIL 1920
Scottish Pipe Band Championship - Dumbarton, 24 May 2008 |
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| Scania Irizar K114 Century, YN51 MHZ, MIL 1920 is pictured here soon before being withdrawn. |
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Corporate Coaching YN06 RWL
Scottish Pipe Band Championship - Dumbarton, 24 May 2008 |
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| Corporate Coaching is a trading name of Logan of Dunloy, Ballymena, NI. I photted the same coach about a month later in Cheshire, and managed to get a look at its ownership details. Hope this is of use to you. nick |
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Stagecoach Newcastle 20840
A Morning In Newcastle |
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| Hi there just to point out an error, this one is actually from Stagecoach in South Shields, as they run a connection route in Newcastle, the X34. Nice shot. |
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Strathtay 415 VYA Alongside A T Type Leopard
GVVT Open Day 12 October 2008 |
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| Both are tigers. |
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| Aye, at both sides of 415 VYA are tigers. Even though the TC is based on the T the differences are quite noticible. I think i made the right choice though. |
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West Coast Motors M600 WCM
Scottish Pipe Band Championships - Dumbarton 16th May 2009 |
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2009-05-22 21:37:04 |
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| M600WCM not W600WCM. There is no W600WCM |
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Milligans MIL 8028
Scottish Pipe Band Championships - Dumbarton 16th May 2009 |
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| A January 2004 Bova Futura FHD 12MTR C49F. New to weavaway, Oxford and was bought along with another similar Bova Futura FHD (WA53 FDJ - MIL 5830 - DAVID URQUHART LIVERY). This is WA53 FDG. |
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Milligans MIL 2162
Scottish Pipe Band Championships - Dumbarton 16th May 2009 |
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| The oldest vehicle in the Milligan's fleet. This is April 1985 Volvo B10M Plaxton Paramount. However, for it's age looks brilliant and ain't bad inside either and remains a common sight on private hire works as well as school. |
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TC And TE Types Ccompared
Scottish Vintage Bus Museum Spring Running Day 2009 |
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| Hi Andrew. A25VDS is TS body type |
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SF09 LZV One Of Whitelaws Wright Bodied MANs Seen On The Internal Service
SVBM Lathalmond Open Weekend - Sunday 16 August |
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| I wish you'd introduce yourself one of these days instead of taking my photo anonymously! |
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C422 VVN Was Used Briefly By An Operator On A Service To Faifley, Hopefully I will Eventually Remember Who
Bygone Clydebank |
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| looks like that Carlton mob, i remember a wee merc like this living in alderman road |
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| This bus was owned by Dart of Paisley, it was purchased from United (Tees and District) in 1996. |
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When Stagecoach Came To Clydebank, Mercedes 084 From The Stagecoach Glasgow Fleet On The 21 To Drumchapel
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Strathclyde Buses Metrorider M117, One Of The Former Colchester Examples Seen On The M11
Bygone Clydebank |
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1499, A Duple Bodied ? From ? Seen In Buchanan, In Teh Bckground The Rear Of Another Acquired Minibus Can Be Seen
Sold To The Man From Kelvin Central |
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| This is MGR912T , new to Trimdon Motor Services and bought it from McKenna of Uddingston who in turn bought it from Grahams Bus Service of Paisley (S14) who in turn bought it from TMS. |
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