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.
Saturday 25 April 2020
Swindon & District Leyland Titan GNF 11V
In the Nineties it seemed everywhere one went there was something of interest like this Swindon and District Leyland Titan which had been one of a trial batch for Greater Manchester PTE.
I don't think I've ever seen that style of the S&D fleetname or livery before. I guess it must have been in the period when I lost interest in the bus industry, around the time First and Stagecoach were swallowing up companies left, right and centre.
With hindsight I wish I'd kept up with happenings, but with hindsight I wish I'd done a lot of things differently!
Well this period after Deregulation was a lot better than the Seventies as along with the good and the bad there was so much going on, it was just the 'end game' in a way the end of the road. But today things are changing to some extent as Arriva and First become less of a presence and smaller companies like Diamond come to the fore.
I don't think I've ever seen that style of the S&D fleetname or livery before. I guess it must have been in the period when I lost interest in the bus industry, around the time First and Stagecoach were swallowing up companies left, right and centre.
ReplyDeleteWith hindsight I wish I'd kept up with happenings, but with hindsight I wish I'd done a lot of things differently!
Well this period after Deregulation was a lot better than the Seventies as along with the good and the bad there was so much going on, it was just the 'end game' in a way the end of the road. But today things are changing to some extent as Arriva and First become less of a presence and smaller companies like Diamond come to the fore.
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