It was the middle of September and high up on the Jullier Pass in Switzerland and menacingly the winter snow was already making it's way down the mountain slopes and before too long as usual the pass would be closed to the Post Buses buses making their way on the lengthy service from St.Moritz and Chur. Two similar buses pass and 1982 Tuscher bodied P24287 coming the other way was typical of the PTT owned Saurer RH buses found in The Alps during the Eighties and Nineties.
Thanks for this very atmospheric picture, which captures the essence of mountain postal bus services.
ReplyDeleteI can almost hear the horn ...
by the way, did you ever do the Maloja pass, and the Sonogno service?
Beautiful photo...!
ReplyDeleteThe horn.. and the cold dry air!
This was the only time I went when it was not in winter and most of my post bus journeys were short hops apart from the Chur to Bellinzona which I did frequently. The modern buses today are not a patch of these wonderfully engineered Swiss machines.
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