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Seeing the A380 climbing out of Manchester Airport is such an odd sight, it's so big it looks like it's hardly moving at all when passing through 10,000 ft

Brilliant clips at Stockport of the trains and planes Lucy, I've got plenty to say about that smart decision to replace Class 68 loco haul push pulls with more class 185...

Yes as local im a little horrified at the route building 😂

brilliant trainspotting at Stockport & ive done Stockport 3 times now for trains & the last time was a few weeks ago while i was up North & i did a session there before i started a Cheshire Day Ranger o the day & i love Stockport & i love the Veriety of trains you get through the station & its now one of my fav stations up in the North for trainspotting im looking forward to seeing the buses one when that comes out in the future

Surprised you managed to catch sight of any Northern trains with it being a Sunday. One of my local lines is the Liverpool - Blackpool North line which recently has had a pattern of either not running at all on a Sunday or only running a part service (Liverpool - Wigan North Western (The Wigan for G) roughly every 2 hours instead of the timetabled hourly service.

Omg I’m so sorry you went through that, as a fellow trans person from Saddleworth / Oldham sadly it’s all to common in this backwater town. Big loves and a subscribe ❤️❤️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️❤️❤️

Can we get some plaxton president

Excellent spotting video Lucy! 🙂👍

31:47 The laugh in the background XD

Haha, were you under attack just after 8 minutes? That was funny.

Kill the background music 😡

Superb video as always.Great to see some ex Stagecoach wigan vehicles. those YN59’s are ex Barnsley based🙂

How did you manage to film nearly all of your journey but not these two incidents you mentioned?

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Please do the wright gemini 1

I am doing railways in Europe and America rn

The Nexus bus driver behavior seems weird. And the passenger behavior is even more despicable and definitely needs to be reported.

41:30 - Could be that your depot "platforms" need a signal either side of them, otherwise the trains coming in will think the whole section is full.

14:30 - There was no direct HS2 - Liverpool route planned *however* in the HS3/NPR plans there was inter-connectivity between HS2 and Liverpool planned.

Nothing I love more than watching bus spotting in the city I live in lol. Worth noting the CitySightseeing route was permanently canclled after the 2023 summer so the Skycar is the only open top about. Also the two Fencers in the fleet weren't ordered by Cardiff Bus, but ae ex demonstrators that were purchased.

Has to be one of the best bus spotting spots in the UK!

Nice video, though is there a reason why you call buses like 19498 a Trident when it's an Enviro400 as the Trident ceased production in 2006?

brilliant bus spotting at Piccadilly Gardens & Pic Gardens in Manchester is one of my fav spots to bus spot in Central Manchester & i did 2 bus spots there while i was up North recently one on a very wet Sunday & the other one day in the week & after i did the one in the week i said to myself the bus scene there will be very intresting when i return next year anyway brilliant video

In between next month and December, we're due new buses which are Evoras and 200MMCs to replace some Pulsars, so if you want to come down and get them, then you can, i could join too

Having not been watching buses round Manchester for a fair few years, it does seem strange seeing double deckers on the Free Bus routes. I remember these routes were originally Solos and then went onto Versa's. I also go back even further in the 80's when the equivalent route was run by Dennis Domino's.

lol what it is oldham, what do you expect

Great video again Lucy! Quick question....in the future, will every bus in Greater Manchester have the Yellow livery? 👍🙂

30:40 Exactly how I feel with this game sometimes. I will never get back the time that I have spent demolishing and rebuilding London Stratford.

You’re welcome 😊

33:20 that bodywork had multiple names for the same reason all the Wright bodywork did. It was just different chasses. The Millennium part was the facelift (which that mod is). Vyking was the B7TL variant and Lolyne was the Trident variant. I believe the OmniDekka was the Scania variant of all of that, as the Nordic was the B7L variant.

I used to live in Oldham, It's a shithole. That's why I used to live there.

So sorry about your bad experiences, I really don't get some people! Anyhow, a little more background on the history of what's now the 184. Originally, the route from Huddersfield-Olham via Marsden was run by an operator called Hansons, a company involved in many things, which would go onto become a big multi national PLC! But buses didn't fit into that port folio, so it sold the route to Huddersfield Corporation in, I think 1969. Huddersfield would be one of the fleets to be taken over by West Yorkshire PTE (as Metrobus), this becoming Yorkshire Rider after deregulation, which would sell to Badgerline, which became First Bus in 1995. At some point, I think after deregyulation, the route was extended to Manchester (numbered 556, I think) but, once First had took over Greater Manchester North, the route was integrated into GMN's 184, which then ran from Manchester-Upper Mill, with 184 being used for the run to Huddersfield. A lovely run that I've only done once. I take it that the 57 has replaced the Rushcroft section of the 59, which I notice now terminates at Oldham. Take care Lucy.

Can you do more Ashton routes please love your vids, do not listen to the haters S

This is what it’s like in Oldham, it’s terrible

i rode the V2 from Salford Crescent to the busway last tuesday while i was sampling the Bee Network buses i did also ride the V1 from the busway onto Leigh i just rode the V2 to get another bus into my day ticket & the Busway is really cool & i saw a Preston bus streetdeck on the X50 at the Trafford Centre while i was bus spotting there on Sunday along side the streetlites & the Warrington electric buses are amazing & i had a short hop one one from the bus stn to Warrington Bank Quay last Thursday & the Bee Network BYDs are amazing & i rode a few in the Oldham area last Tuesday brilliant vlog

Unfortunately Warringtons electric fleet are being plagued with teething problems at the moment and causing delays and cancellations left right and centre with the diesel fleet being brought in to cover the services.But they are fantastic to ride on and they have a great design that doesn’t look bland.

I’m so sorry this happened to you Lucy 😢

Great video Lucy! Glad you had no problems this time round. Guided Busways just don't work for me. Train or tram is preferable. Anyway, that's my mini rant done with! 😄 👍🙂

The 611 was originally the 601 (the main service was the 600) and then as you say, became the 10A when Stagecoach renumbered all the Wigan area routes.

I so agree with you on the vandilisim - our new buses, such as the new ev's on the W13 have already got burnt back seats and fired USB ports - i just dont know what people get from doing this to public transport buses man

Apparently Ashton and Hyde Road are getting some BZLs in Tranche 3

Metrolink has a bright future. I was there in St Peter's Square back in 1992 when the network first ran and watched it branch-out, ever larger over the years. Due to it's unique flexibility of being able to be both street-running alongside traffic, and using conventional railway infrastructure there's absolutely no reason why Metrolink cannot one-day run a line down every major highway in Greater Manchester (and beyond!), not to mention suitable for tunnels so one day even underground. Our cities for fathers must have wept when they short-shortsightedly tore up our extensive streetcar network, maybe Metrolink will one day be worthy of making them proud of what a future Manchester has achieved.

Can we get some scania omlicities and dekkas

Very nice tutorial! The spreadsheet link doesent work anymore, is there any way to get a new linkor something?

You should tell the police about the second incident

First Enviro 300s have Cummins 6.7L engines (6 cylinder) with Allison gearboxes (same as the ex JPT two), Stagecoach Enviro 300s have the same 6.7 Cummins with Voith gearboxes. Enviro 200s usually have 4 cylinder 4.5L Cummins engines but as ADL dropped the Enviro 300 when the Euro 6 Enviro 200 MMC was released, the full length Enviro 200 MMC had the option of a 6.7 (as found in Bee Network/GNW 41xx and Transdev Burnley 5xx). I think you can get the newer Enviro 200 MMC with an Alison XFE with the 4 cylinder but I can't stand the 4 cylinder MMCs because the turbo sounds horrible.

Nexus move sound a bit like how JPT were in their final days. Also from what I have heard MCT too.

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