Esjberg Ice-Cream Girl looking Cool

 In Britain we are currently experiencing extremely hot weath in the region of 33'c, and it reminds me of when I arrived in Demnark off the ferry at Esjberg in 1986. It was hot and humid and people were trying to stop the sweat going in their eyes. Then along came a very cool loooking blond girl with her ice-cream. As usual out of town buses depart outside the railway station and a fairly new DAB-Leyland of Strandgaad is on the bus stand for Varde and Skjern a bit further up the Jutland coast. That evening there was a very loud thumder storm.

Midland Red Leyland National 626 in Banbury

 The Seventies and here the Eighties is far enough away for us now to feel nostalgia for the NBC and even it's ubiquitous Leyland National. That applies even more so to them when they were nicely turned out in suitable surroundings like Midland Red 626 here in Banbury where they were still pleasingly using the old 'BMMO' B for 'Banbury Town Service' prefix.

Harrow Buses M1455 E455 SON at Heathrow

 As it carries a Birmingham registration it would be easy to surmise that this MCW Metrobus Mk2 with Harrow Buses at Heathrow was a West Midlands surplus bus but in fact they were new. One of the many slightly odd things at happened during that busy period towards the end of the Eighties.

Bristol City-Line Olympian-Roe

 Before I start blogging again I just want to make sure the posts are displaying properly and this City-Clipper 9528 looks okay.

Wythall and I: Dismount and Start Again: Welcome Back

I'm pleased that this my old Busworld Photography blog is still live on Blogger and that a few people still visit and leave messages. Those who want to visit will be pleased to know I plan to start posting on here again. I always liked the look of the pages so I am not going to change anything much, but I do have a lot of new images to post especially as I now have a really good scanner to bring to life the old monochrome negatives which have sat in a suitcase for thirty-eight years. 

I grew up in Midland Red country and I am still fond of BMMO buses and coaches and I particularly like the buses built before the lightweight era like this solid S12 belonging to the Wythall Transport Museum.
 

No Solo for Solos

 For many years we never saw a Solo in Stafford till Arriva got a couple at Cannock. But by 2019 D&G and Select seen here had joined them. The numbers have dwindled again but I can't say I mind them particularly and being in the middle they seem fairly modern and well suited to the many bus services which sadly no longer carry many passengers.

Two Very Different Mercedes-Benz buses in Lugano, Switzerland.

 Very different Daimler-Benz buses at Lugano in 1990 was this 1988 Vetter bodied trolleybus of the now closed system and and a much older service bus.

The bright and cheerful livery of this less common highbridge Bristol VR of Solent Blue at Bitterne lifts it out of the gloom. It was formerely 1451 with Ribble.
 

It's Gone Off The Rails so I Wil Love You And Leave You

 It looks like my old blog won't function properly any more so thanks for that Blogger. I would like to thank you all for visiting me and especially those who have been good enough to leave comments. Those who still want to enjoy my photography can still see new postings by visiting me at Flickr where I am 'Call Sign Jojo'.

Stagecoad Gold Enviro 15233 WN65 XEH near Chorley

A Stagecoach Enviro double-decker seen not for from Chorley in Gold livery on the 125 from Bolton to Preston.

Articulated buses in Bern FBW 252

I expect I would come to terms with the acid-red colour scheme to be found on Bern buses today were I to pay a visit. But as it stands I don't like it much much prefering the traditional military-green and green colours which suited the architecture and old-fashioned feel of Switzerland's tiny Capital. I guess the undertaking wanted to show it was forward thinking and modern which is something I admit can't be said for this FBW articulated bus of the Sixties and still in all-day service in 1989

Darlington Marshall-Camair bodied Dennis Dominator

Darlington's buses were fairly conservative and mostly Roe Guy or Roe bodied double-deckers plodding about, but by the Eighties everything had changed. There were still a few lingering Daimler GVG5's but the rest was an interesting array of single-deckers including rarities like the Ward Dalesman, but more common was this Dennis Dominator albeit with Marshall Camair bodywork.