They do look great lit up at night. The Ribble PD3s exhaust was something I grew up with so is always a pleasure to hear again. Hopefully this year's nocturnal running day will just as good
Wonderful. Those incandescant bulbs of the older buses make them look really cosy and remind me of late night trips home from my nan's on the L3 back in the 70's.
Thanks. It really brings back many memories. Those warm cosy lights make everything very atmospheric. My memories are of the ribble 58 or 59 at St John's lane. They would be all lined up along with the corpy 28 & 56 buses as we crunched through the Autumn leaves falling from the trees in St John's gardens
Hi mate you must know what I’m going to say ,that GMPTE fleetline looked superb plus the Mancunians it’s the livery I really like ,the panther looked similar to the XMS they had on the first red arrow 500 route west end to Victoria they had scratchen body work (think I spelt I wrong ) I must try and get up to one of these running days I’ll look out for you mate have a coffee and a good chat ,all the best from a wet and windy Hammersmith Mark 😊😊
The Strachans bodywork does look very similar to the panther type. During the bus wars many manchester buses could be found on Merseyside routes. Mostly due to merseybus encroaching on manchester territory. If you ever get the chance to get up to one of these running days you won't be disappointed.
Don't old buses look inviting in the dark with all the lights on. I've only ever ridden in one Leyland Panther, but I was quite impressed with it. Certainly a lot quieter than a Leyland National. And why don't buses now have exhaust notes like at19:15? 👩🌾
They do look great lit up at night. The Ribble PD3s exhaust was something I grew up with so is always a pleasure to hear again. Hopefully this year's nocturnal running day will just as good
Wonderful. Those incandescant bulbs of the older buses make them look really cosy and remind me of late night trips home from my nan's on the L3 back in the 70's.
Thanks. It really brings back many memories. Those warm cosy lights make everything very atmospheric. My memories are of the ribble 58 or 59 at St John's lane. They would be all lined up along with the corpy 28 & 56 buses as we crunched through the Autumn leaves falling from the trees in St John's gardens
Thanks for that MW. Lovely busues, dead atmospheric, great sound, brilliant photography and ace reportage. Cheers drive.
The buses look great all lit up at night. I stupidly left my bigger lens/sensor camera at home so the night shots weren't as good I hoped
Some of those buses do have such amazing livery on them. I have seen some of them out and about.
They try to get them out as often as they can though given the age of some they have to be careful with them.
Hi mate you must know what I’m going to say ,that GMPTE fleetline looked superb plus the Mancunians it’s the livery I really like ,the panther looked similar to the XMS they had on the first red arrow 500 route west end to Victoria they had scratchen body work (think I spelt I wrong ) I must try and get up to one of these running days I’ll look out for you mate have a coffee and a good chat ,all the best from a wet and windy Hammersmith
Mark 😊😊
The Strachans bodywork does look very similar to the panther type. During the bus wars many manchester buses could be found on Merseyside routes. Mostly due to merseybus encroaching on manchester territory. If you ever get the chance to get up to one of these running days you won't be disappointed.
Don't old buses look inviting in the dark with all the lights on. I've only ever ridden in one Leyland Panther, but I was quite impressed with it. Certainly a lot quieter than a Leyland National.
And why don't buses now have exhaust notes like at19:15? 👩🌾