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suzyscottdotcomWell, asides from two loads of washing/laundry, parcels and packets in, scanning financial papers, and the likes, I've been busy today! Having said that, I did spend quite a bit of time browsing through two CD-ROM's worth of over TWO THOUSAND pictures. These are all my pictures from around 1998-2000 - mostly taken on old-style print film, back in the days when I used to have to worry about things like film speed, film length, etc. I've been told that soon enough, I'll be able to get all the fun I want from just the batteries... but that's an aside for now!
Anyway, where was I... oh yes, lots of pictures - what some would dubb 'bus porn'. Previously unseen vintage bus porn, thank you! Well, when I say vintage, I mean vintage for me - i.e. mostly before I moved to London, or around the time I was moving. The last time.
(Does this mean I might get nostalgic about these Cambridge Enviro's in ten years time? hmm I wonder!)
Well, dear reader, as I look forward to the future, it's also a good time to look back at what's gone on.
I've picked through one or two images, and I know some have been posted at random before. But, here, as a LiveJournal exclusive, and because I am in a very good mood this week, here's three of the better ones. I think these were Spring to Summer 1999, early in the Montrose bus war - the first round, when it was only Strathtay's 28/29 and Merlin's 28 that ran up and down the A937. Craigo is a village off this road, and had never seen a bus service go into it before, until early in 1998. Strathtay MCW Metrorider 158 (E553 YKW) is the vehicle.
The road is a good fair bit of walking, with no footpath. Strathtay introduced a 'combat bus' of three journeys from Craigo Village to Montrose Railway Station, commercially, between their subsidised 'main road' journeys. The locals seemed to boycott these buses, so only two bus spotters and a former cleaner from Montrose depot (who had a retired pass) were known to frequent the route. Here, the bus is seen at the War Memorial at Craigo Road End.
... and, another MCW Metrorider, but this was from the other side. Still in the livery of Sheffield-based Northern Bus (and not to be confused with the Northern Scottish that used to run this road) is Merlins Ark D636 MDB.
These will end up on the photo skip, in due course.
Anyway, where was I... oh yes, lots of pictures - what some would dubb 'bus porn'. Previously unseen vintage bus porn, thank you! Well, when I say vintage, I mean vintage for me - i.e. mostly before I moved to London, or around the time I was moving. The last time.
(Does this mean I might get nostalgic about these Cambridge Enviro's in ten years time? hmm I wonder!)
Well, dear reader, as I look forward to the future, it's also a good time to look back at what's gone on.
I've picked through one or two images, and I know some have been posted at random before. But, here, as a LiveJournal exclusive, and because I am in a very good mood this week, here's three of the better ones. I think these were Spring to Summer 1999, early in the Montrose bus war - the first round, when it was only Strathtay's 28/29 and Merlin's 28 that ran up and down the A937. Craigo is a village off this road, and had never seen a bus service go into it before, until early in 1998. Strathtay MCW Metrorider 158 (E553 YKW) is the vehicle.
The road is a good fair bit of walking, with no footpath. Strathtay introduced a 'combat bus' of three journeys from Craigo Village to Montrose Railway Station, commercially, between their subsidised 'main road' journeys. The locals seemed to boycott these buses, so only two bus spotters and a former cleaner from Montrose depot (who had a retired pass) were known to frequent the route. Here, the bus is seen at the War Memorial at Craigo Road End.
... and, another MCW Metrorider, but this was from the other side. Still in the livery of Sheffield-based Northern Bus (and not to be confused with the Northern Scottish that used to run this road) is Merlins Ark D636 MDB.
These will end up on the photo skip, in due course.
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Date: 2007-12-14 10:02 pm (UTC)Some of their other Metroriders ended up on the fantastic Bus Zero (something I really must blog about)...
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Date: 2007-12-14 10:07 pm (UTC)Pic 1 and 2 are the same BTW. As you can see what happened, I/we got the bus (with a Rover) from Montrose to the road end/war memorial (Strathtay 28), waited on it coming back up the road, with the camera out. We then walked to the road end bus stop (opposite the primary school, now closed) and got the Merlin bus back into Montrose, before continuing the trip onwards via Brechin on the 30, or back to Arbroath/Dundee on the 40X.
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Date: 2007-12-14 10:43 pm (UTC)I recall when I was about 6 or 7, my dad getting excited after looking out of the living room window. It was a bit dark but not too late at night, so we all get out coats on and traipse up the road to see what the excitement was about. He still has the photos of the french registered Citroen Visa after all these years, taken before it was launched in the UK!!
He also gets quite jolly when he spots ex LRT/Lothian Buses fleet in random places!!
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Date: 2007-12-15 05:00 pm (UTC)... you mean like former 115 here in Barnsley?
http://suzyscott.fotopic.net/p21071328.html
Oh yes, I met thebustocrookes the next day that weekend!