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Post by holland1987 on Apr 7, 2011 23:21:21 GMT 1
When do you think the best times as a bus spotter were.
Mine is Leeds in 1996 after the First Bus take over with the fleet gaining the red, orange and yellow stripes. Black Prince running Ailsa's and random Optare products and former Newport Scania's.
York was interesting too in the same era, Scania Wright's been delivered on Park and Ride services, VRT's and National 2's still at Rider York and independents such as Glenn Coaches running Nationals in competition with Rider.
Coastliner were the top operator in the region too back then with fairly new Royale's and B10B's which were lovely to ride on.
Some of the best liveries were around that era. My personal favorite was Bradford Traveller.
Don't people agree bus spotting was brilliant in the mid 90's.
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Post by 576 Gemini 2 on Apr 8, 2011 16:28:57 GMT 1
1995-2005 The period when the old guard of Atlanteans,Fleetlines and Nationals were being taken out of service and the first low-floor buses started entering service
Leeds Bus station was a much more colourful place with First group buses in the old and new Rider liveries and the new schemes for LCL, Bradford Traveller and Calderline along with the then new Barbie colours. Arriva had it new corporate livery alongside the old ones for Yorkshire Woollen,West Riding and South Yorkshire Road Transport. The Blazefield companies with different colours, Yorkshire Traction before Stagecoach and Centrebus, Black Prince where no bus had the same livery as another and all he indpendants as well
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Post by holland1987 on Apr 10, 2011 14:22:48 GMT 1
Rider York/First York had a massive livery variation in 2000.
Barbie 1/ Old Rider/ Kingfisher livery/ All green/ 2 tone green/ 1996 green stripes livery/ Park and ride blue/ Park and ride white/ Pullman easylink being orange and purple/ Designer line 99 and the open top two tone blue livery.
10 or maybe more liveries in the fleet and that wasn't including adverts. And a wide variation of buses. The 1 service could of been anything from a Roe Olympian, National 2 to a low floor Plaxton Dart. Now it's all Barbie livery and only ALX400's on the route.
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Post by michael1971 on Apr 1, 2017 20:39:03 GMT 1
mine would have to be the F-XYGs on the 589 to 593 services plus the leyland Tiger F-XWY coaches used on 365 X36/37/ 528/560/562 services
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Post by resolution on Apr 25, 2017 11:05:39 GMT 1
Any time between 1950 and 1963 when Huddersfield and Bradford were putting new trolleybuses into service or rebodying old ones. Everything since then has been relentlessly downhill. And since about 1980 all we've had is boring metal boxes with engines in.
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Post by steve440 on Feb 27, 2018 23:45:13 GMT 1
My favourite time has to be 1960s. Where I used to live we had Leeds City Transport Leyland PD2/1s from Bramley on routes 23 (Intake) and 54 (Rodley), Headingley depot AEC Regent IIIs on route 44 (Halton Moor - Stanningley) and various West Yorkshire Bristol Ks, Lodekkas (including the famous foward-entrance DX82) and single-deck Ls, LSs and MWs on routes 29 (Farsley), 30 (Bradford) and 31 (Keighley). Amazing times!
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