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

Monday 24 June 2013

Scruffy Northern Routemaster FPT 594C 2124

I always had a fascination for Northern General as during my youth it's area around Tyneside was well beyond my usual jaunts. Sadly by the time I was up there regularly with work it had become scruffy even by NBC standards. Not only had this once proud Routemaster FPT594C No.2124 been stripped of all brightness one felt it might not be safe to ride as the curb in Newcastle seemed to be in use as the hand-brake.
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plcd1 said...

looks like that was taken just to the side of Worswick St bus station. If the brakes were dodgy and had failed that RMF would have ended up on the Central Motorway subway just north of the Tyne Bridge.

28 June 2013 at 05:13
christopher said...

You are correct about the location close to the bus station in Worswick Street. Maybe as brass wheel chocks had a habit of going missing the driver of the bus had got used to parking them like this just in case the handbrake did fail on a slope.

28 June 2013 at 15:17

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