Many know my more recent genre Buses and Girls photography as those earlier buses I really like have all gone so now I enjoy my bus hobby more for the photography. As well as being an artist I owned a small transport business before I retired but today I have a little job too driving a minibus dong a school run to Wolverhampton in the afternoon and occasionally other jobs. It gets me out and about and satisfies my childhood ambition to drive a bus.
Tuesday, 7 July 2009
Bern No. 66: Join the Bears on the Langgasse Trolley
I always say the only thing that is cheap in Switzerland is the chocolate but I suspect not these high-class offerings from Glatz Confiseur Beck, still maybe they will let you buy just a couple in exchange for you British-Pound. The trolleybus seen on a cold winter morning at the end of the rush-hour was from a small batch of Bern Volvo's delivered in 1985 and 62-66 were bodied by R&J.
These fine vehicles have sadly been withdrawn recently, as trolleybus operation on routes 13 and 14 was discontinued to permit construction of new tram lines. I hope the rest of Bern's trolleybus system can survive though. I suppose it's a question of what the minimum critical size is. That's the argument that finally killed Basel.
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