Saturday 20 December 2008

I smell sardines: The Boat Trip


I've a feeling this was taken at a delightfully untidy small boat harbour near Villa Real where our party went on a Sardine boat trip but I might be wrong. Anyway the coach in 1984 although not yet flying RN colours but carrying it's number No.9482 was bodied by Caetano and was probably a Volvo. Those fresh sardines we ate on our return were mighty delicious.
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6 comments:

  1. Ricardo Figueiredo,21 December 2008 at 08:14

    Great picture!

    This was one of the Caetanos that Carris had for the Lisbon Airport shutle!

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  2. christopher21 December 2008 at 08:19

    Thank you, this type of Caetano body was quite common in the UK.

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  3. Terminal Rodoviario21 December 2008 at 13:51

    Note the RN logo on the left side...

    Carris sold this buses to RN in the beggining of the privatization of RN.

    The depots of Aboboda and Sintra received a few of them.

    Later, when this depots belonged to Stagecoach Portugal, they were transfered to Rodoviária de Lisboa.

    I've done 3 travels on them when they belonged to RL, between Lisbon and São Pedro do Sul.

    By this time, the old boxer engines were tired, as they struggled to climb some hills that we found on the route to our destination...

    But hey! Those were lovely times... We could put our head outside the windows and the noise produced by the engine was so, so, so enjoyable...

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  4. christopher21 December 2008 at 13:56

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who enjoys bus sounds, unfortunately apart from transmission noises most buses are rather dull in comparison. I see a lot of these buses had a interesting history, still quite a few more Portugal posts to come yet!

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  5. Ricardo Figueiredo,22 December 2008 at 02:53

    Just to complete the info for the picture, they were 14 in Carris, all with Magirus Deutz engines.

    About this one in particular.. on a fleetlist that i have it says that after its was sold, it became Rodoviária Nacional 2472, The 182 nº that we can see on the picture was fleet number in Carris...

    ...so i guess that when this picture was taken, in was one of the very fisrt services for Rodoviária Nacional of this coach!


    ...and by the way...i just love bus sounds too! Its sad that they are so hard to record.

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  6. christopher19 January 2009 at 23:32

    Bus Driver, I travelled on a Magirus Deutz coach in Yugoslavia and not only did it sound very nice too, it simply flew all the way to Pula.

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