BUSWORLD PHOTOGRAPHY

I AM CHRISTOPHER LEACH THE ARTIST. I started this blog so that I can share with everyone my vast collection of transport photographs showing a personal and nostalgic view of the industry with images that span some 45 years taking in the U.K and some of Europe. I have no darkroom and so rather than being the perfectionist after tidying them up I upload the images warts and all, and even those that won't scan squarely or are scratched. In a way it adds age and character. You are all free to download these for your personal use but please remember I still own them and you are not just free to use them without prior permission for any knd of publishing. Click on images to enlarge them and if you want to see more leave your comments or visit my website for the mother-site with galleries including those Buses & Girls: PICTUREWORLD

Friday 27 February 2009

First:: Lowland


There was quite a long period when the First Group confined it's once eye catching 'Barbi' corporate look to brand new vehicles that matched it's specification and at the same time it's many fleets retained their former identity often just modifying their existing layout to incorporate the First Logo or to add a splash of extra colour too. Some of the results were very pleasing and fresh as can be seen here on this Peebles based Leyland National caught hurrying away from Edinburgh Saint Andrew Square Bus Station bound for Penicuik. In Britain we were all to familiar with these integral buses in NBC red or green but National Mk1 buses were not so common north of the border as the canny Scots folk preferred to stick with their more orthodox tried and tested Alexander Y-type combinations particularly the dependable Leyland Leopard. Before the Scottish Bus group like the NBC further south was broken up in 1985, Lowland had been the southern region of the large Eastern Scottish and even though it's fleet was the smallest with just one-hundred vehicles it's operating area extended from just outside the Edinburgh conurbation to Berwick-on-Tweed on the border of England.

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