The Old and The New

When buses are parked up in Britain one is lucky to get anything more beautiful than an old rusty gasometer as backdrop but go to Pula in the former Yugoslavia and one can also capture an impressive Roman colasium. The less prosperous countries of Europe still rely on their more wealthy neihbours to provide them with secondhand buses and these would have come from Germany I expect.
Before the Ruinification of Germany Berlin in particular was a lot more prosperous with generous grants coming from Central Goverment in Bonn. This meant regular spending on the infastructure including the transport system and No. 3500 the first of a new generation of buses arrived in 1981. In total by the end of decade over 850 of these double-deckers were delivered and these were to be the last major type as their operation would be scaled down to the busy central area of Berlin and a few major trunk routes with the rest replaced by single-deckers and other forms of transport including new tram routes and trams.