Tuesday, 28 April 2020
Greater Manchester Transport END 820D at Stockport
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2 comments:
Hmm. Completely missing the wide Manchester "units+letter" blind off the end track, so it can't correctly display three-figure service numbers and the passengers get to play "guess the number". 13something, but 13what?
We sometimes forget how rough around the edges even "quality" operators had become by the late-1970s, which is when I'm guessing this was taken.
There were exceptions of course with some wonderful Independents but everything about the bus industry became shoddy in the Seventies and perhaps the nickname of NBC being No-body Cares sums it up nicely. Out went all those proud wonderful Municipas with their fine titles and historic crests and instead we got toilet-cleaner-container pastel liveries and ugly DIY type names or just letters. I stopped taking photos for a few years but when I came back i'm glad I stuck to my old black and white film.
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