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Roy Goes Bare?
Sheffield Roy kindly sent a few more pictures of his recent jolly to the open day at Stagecoach's Morecambe depot, and, talking of Bare, the rear end of Transdev's Ribble 100 celebration bus has escaped this blog so far. But here it is.
Another readable rear was revealed by Arriva ...
... with its front view below.
Amongst the vehicles present were this nostalgia-oozing pair ...
... from Morecambe and Heysham Corporation. Many buses, obviously, were from Stagecoach including this open topper.
Its livery is a strange mixtures of Stagecoach blue and "Lakes" open-top green.
A snap from within the depot shows a repaint in progress although quite what style is being obliterated and which scheme is replacing it is not clear to fbb.
The vehicle began its life with Stagecoach London.
Roy was intrigued with the warning labels variously applied and thinks this one of them is unique to this bus.
Other versions of the "cyclists" label have existed ...
... but nothing quite like this.
And A Route Renumbering
In a very different move to commemorate Ribble's centenary, Stagecoach have renumbered Lancaster local route 2.
Not only is the route number changed philosophically and advertorially, but the buses now show 100 ...
... as does the timetable ...
... and the on-line route map.
The bus stops map in the University underpass has, however, NOT been changed.
Meanwhile More Morecambe
The present Morecambe Station is adequate for the basic service that now links it to Lancaster ...
... but lacks character and is not over-blessed with platform facilities.
The previous station had oodles of character ...
... but by the 1980s it had lost much of its original clutter.
It is now a pub, diner and "entertainment" venue ...
... slightly disfigured by The Colonel!
Roy popped it (was it for nosh, alcoholic beverage or some unspecified "entertainment"?) and snapped some of the memorabilia therein.
There was a signal for very low height trains ...
... and an old sign, presumably NOT from Morecambe.
And A Glasgow Farewell
fbb came across this picture on-line. It shows the farewell parade; saying goodbye to Glasgow's trams as it passed Bridgeton Cross.
It all looks a bit cleaner now with a station smartly branded without emphasis on the franchise holder, Abellio!
Bridgeton Cross station lay abandoned ...
... until re-opening as part of the Argyle Line in 1979.
Glasgow's last tram ran in September 1962.
Tomorrow we stay (journalistically) in Glasgow but move to 1963 for a little more nostalgia.
The present Morecambe Station is adequate for the basic service that now links it to Lancaster ...
And A Glasgow Farewell
fbb came across this picture on-line. It shows the farewell parade; saying goodbye to Glasgow's trams as it passed Bridgeton Cross.
It, too, looks a lot brighter.
Tomorrow we stay (journalistically) in Glasgow but move to 1963 for a little more nostalgia.
Further 1960s blog : Tuesday 4th June
What you may not know is that the opening of Bridgeton station on the Glasgow Central Low Level line led to the closure of Bridgeton Central across the road which was the terminus of a short branch line off the Queen Street Low Level line. The station continued in use for some years as a train stabling point (as did the former Hyndland station further west). I remember that, in the original plans for the Transclyde system, the idea had been to join the two lines together so trains from places such as Lanark could run through either Central or Low Level, but this never happened. I guess it would have been too costly (and also generated timetabling and timekeeping issues akin to those on the proposed Northern Heights branch of London's Northern Line).
ReplyDeleteso no chance for me to say, 'are you fbb?' and win 10p?
ReplyDeleteFbb should also be pleased to note that a certain website's diagrammatic all-operator map of Lancaster's network has also been updated, thanks mainly to the recruitment of a tech-savvy student to the Bus Users' Group
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