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Post by Deleted on Feb 1, 2021 22:11:59 GMT 1
Hello everyone.
To encourage further discussion I'd like to know what made you get interested into the Transport industry whether that is buses, trains, planes, ect. Is it family? Is it you've just loved them ever since you was young?
To get to know you guys but I'd like to know what you guys are interested in to the transport industry?
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Post by dlspotter on Feb 1, 2021 23:40:35 GMT 1
I was always interested in commercial aviation, I only got into buses after taking a CityZAP Leeds to Manchester and realising how Transdev try to make their buses a good customer experience. That was just over two years ago now and I've very much gotten into going for treks and registering all my trips into my database (sounds slightly sad but it's nice to keep track of which buses I've been on so I can see which I go on most, as well as look back on different treks that I've been on)
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Post by WYBS on Feb 2, 2021 12:17:30 GMT 1
I've always had a little more interest in buses than the average person growing up; knowing the difference between different companies around my local area and a few bus routes, but no idea about bus types and details etc...
I suppose I started really getting into the hobby after I started college, which was only 3 days a week, so I found myself going out and about on my days off for the first time, which was a great feeling of freedom as a youngster. Even if it was just trips out to Holmfirth or Harrogate, I was discovering whole new areas, this being my prime objective.
The interest in the buses I was travelling on then naturally came naturally as I began researching bus types, and found myself getting very confused initially about how a Plaxton President could have a B7TL chassis but so could a Gemini... but then a Gemini could also have a B9TL chassis...
Soon after I found a small, rather terrible camera and started taking the odd shot (my first ever being on a day out in Brid in the rain) and uploading them to flickr. I then moved on to a Bridge Camera for a few years, then a DLSR and now looking to upgrade again.
A whole host of flickr photos later (though nowhere near as many as some) all through being bored in between college days.
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Post by Steve Macz403 on Feb 2, 2021 22:26:40 GMT 1
I’ve always been a fan of Transport. Well I’ve always been travelling on Buses and trains since Childhood with my mum. Buses had numbers so that’s how I was always good and remembering bus numbers as a child. I grew up in South West London, travelling on the Red London buses, before moving to Leeds and being exposed to Yorkshire Rider, which changed to First. I was that kid that would look in the AA road map of the UK. Just because it was an interesting map with the road colours and towns and cities. I did what other kids did, watch cartoons, play Nintendo. Play pokemon in 2000, football, play fight with your friends. . Hang around with the cool kids.  As I kid I new the Leeds network like the back of my hand by collecting the metro maps and timetables from the bus station. Same with London that I tried to learn as a teenager, just by going online in the library and looking at the maps when I was 14/15. Thanks to the growth of enthusiast pages, Wikipedia etc. I could Google a bus type and get my answer to Bus types As an adult, I now live in Manchester, driving my car., low key car enthusiast too., last time I got on public transport it was early March 2020. My wife just entrusts me with the long distance driving, I seem to enjoy it how I can navigate the country without getting lost. Well we’ve all made a wrong turn down a road. |
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Post by stantheman on Feb 17, 2021 22:53:35 GMT 1
Always been interested in buses ever since I was a kid. I have no idea why or what attracted me to them. Apparently my first word was “bus”, and I’d not even said “mum” or “dad” by that point 😂
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Post by rwilkes on Feb 18, 2021 12:33:32 GMT 1
I was interested from early childhood as we used buses to get around. Ordinary people used to talk about them as they were so important in their lives. I was also interested in travel and local geography so it was inevitable that I wanted list of all West Yorkshire bus routes and a timetable, especially as the Harrogate Bus station used to have a full area route map of all services. Maps like this have an educational value. There was a big revamp of local bus services in Harrogate in my early teens and this was all grist to the mill. From age 13 I went hiking so rural buses became very interesting. Conductresses knitting, farmers bringing hens, all sorts.
A lifelong hiker, I have been on buses all over the UK. I have always been more interested in routes, networks, timetables and how bus companies work and not so much interested in buses. It would not quite be true to say I am not interested in buses but nearly so. I am intersted in rail networks and canals.
I am bored by cars/planes but I would like to see much higher road safety standards.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2021 21:21:42 GMT 1
I was interested in buses since I was 4 or 5 years old. I grew up in Blackburn where we had Blackburn Transport and Lancashire United. Blackburn Transport operated a number of different types of buses which interested me, like Dennis Darts, Renowns, Metroriders, I believe they had City Pacers but I think the darts replaced them? Also had some 52 plate tridents which was usually used on the 1, and then went to Blackpool Transport when Transdev took over Blackburn in 2006 or 2007 or 2008 something along those lines. Also had a variety of olympians. Recall some Olympians going to Blackpool and getting painted in the Line 1 Metro Livery along with the Tridents. Also the highercroft services used Leyland Nationals which got Rebodied to look more like a Lynx before going to Blackburn, I've just seen this fact on the internet. I thought these buses was Lynxes, until I just looked until now!
I remember some B reg ECW bodied Leyland Olympians, which was used on normal services but I think then they moved on to Schools once Transdev took over and still operated some public services after the takeover for a few years. Also remember the Volvo Olympians they had and they got painted in the outer circle livery the 5A and 5C. I remember that There was also some olympians with the Northern Counties Bodywork as well, they looked horrible.
Also recall some of the Olympians having double doors, I don't know whether these worked or not, but I think these was the ones used on the school runs more than the others. Also recall some Leyland Titans as well.
Also recall Blackpool having some H Reg Leyland Olympians and some G ones, remember them getting painted into the yellow livery when Transdev took over and remember one of these examples being in white for some strange reason.
My local route was the 8A,8B,8C,8 D 8A and 8C went via Audley/Dunoon Drive, 8B/ 8 D, went via Sett End and Queen's Park. Darts was the normal allocation with Olympians and Metroriders appearing on them occassionally. I always used to ask family members to take myself on the buses when I was younger.
Lancashire United, I believe did the Hyndburn Circulars and the routes to other major towns like Bolton on 225 and Clitheroe. 152 to Preston and Burnley. Also had Renowns, and some Olympians I think. I don't remember much about them, as I never used their buses.
When Transdev took over my local route got turned to 8 and 9. Alternate Journeys on both the 8 and 9, one journey went via Dunoon Drive and the next one would go via Sett End. We got an upgrade to the Renowns. The Ex Blackpool Transport ones, these were T Reg and V Reg Renowns. Lovely buses, and a pleasure to ride on, they was really comfy and a great ride. I miss them. I wonder if there any still around anywhere.
In terms of Trains, I sort of took interest just after FNW ended and we had Northern. I recall one day in the train station seeing a Arriva Trains Northern Livered 142 show up on a service to Colne with High backed seating IIRC, really comfy seats a pleasant change from the bench seats oh and the horrible seats on the Ex Mersey Rail livered ones! Now they was awful to sit in!
This is what I grew up with and got me interested in the transport industry, sorry for the ramble haha!
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Post by rwilkes on Mar 13, 2021 23:30:01 GMT 1
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