I remember South Midland operated several of these in the 1960s including the RELH prototype.All scrapped when SM was absorbed by City Of Oxford in the dark NBC days.Lovely coaches to ride on.
I've drove REs Love em Especially RELH With 5speed box that extra gear made difference We had one in Northampton where there was no governor on it and it'd do 80 but then the works found out and that was that
I've driven this bus, after the Stroud RE group restored it, and it's stunning! It now has an HLXB from an Ulsterbus RE rather than the standard HLX engine, and also that HORRID dashboard is now gone, in favour of a standard RE one.
lovely comfortable seats a proper bus it makes me so excited to see them saved from scrap .I would have loved to be a scrap dealer in the 80s .if you I had the room I would have saved them for presentation. Think how many road worthy routemasters were scrapped by pvs Barnsley. there worth more now than the scrap value ..
Chelmsford had one - GVW980H (CF1610) - an absolute joy to drive, especially on Service 33 to Saffron Walden. Alan Tebbitt made a habit of going over to the 'Output' boys and asking for it whenever he got the chance. Such a shame it got scrapped. ISTR its sister (GVW979H, 1609) did go into preservation (?Mills, Colchester?) but I don't know what happened to it :-(
I remember South Midland operated several of these in the 1960s including the RELH prototype.All scrapped when SM was absorbed by City Of Oxford in the dark NBC days.Lovely coaches to ride on.
Those engines sound like they have a tremendous amount of power 😁😁😁👏👏👏👏👍😉
Very gutsy
I've drove REs
Love em
Especially RELH
With 5speed box that extra gear made difference
We had one in Northampton where there was no governor on it and it'd do 80 but then the works found out and that was that
I've driven this bus, after the Stroud RE group restored it, and it's stunning! It now has an HLXB from an Ulsterbus RE rather than the standard HLX engine, and also that HORRID dashboard is now gone, in favour of a standard RE one.
Beautiful
lovely comfortable seats a proper bus it makes me so excited to see them saved from scrap .I would have loved to be a scrap dealer in the 80s .if you I had the room I would have saved them for presentation. Think how many road worthy routemasters were scrapped by pvs Barnsley. there worth more now than the scrap value ..
Nice coach, I remember them at Brentwood under Eastern National.
Chelmsford had one - GVW980H (CF1610) - an absolute joy to drive, especially on Service 33 to Saffron Walden. Alan Tebbitt made a habit of going over to the 'Output' boys and asking for it whenever he got the chance. Such a shame it got scrapped. ISTR its sister (GVW979H, 1609) did go into preservation (?Mills, Colchester?) but I don't know what happened to it :-(
someone was going to scrap this??? incredible
shame that a few halton transport Bristol RE's where not saved like no 5, RTF305M, that sounded like a DMU when pulling off from bus stops
My friend used to own an ex Halton transport RE it was TTB622L It had a Leyland 680 in it. It just didn't sound like train but pulled like one
These were fast and very comfortable easily as good and as fast as the midland red coaches.