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Its all pedestrianised now - most of this was filmed on Broad St and Friar St. The lines of buses coming out and turning in is Station Road that connects to both streets - even thats pedestrianised now. Looking at this makes me realise it was for the best really and safer too for the pedestrians. But I do miss the chaos of it. Lot of memories of the town as was all flood back to me.
I couldn't wait to leave the place (which I managed to do, come the year of this clip. Late September '89, I think). I made the mistake of a couple of years' foray back to my hometown in the early '00s: made me appreciate being anywhere but Reading.
@@andrewmclellan3992 Yes, its a terrible place now - it certainly has a 'bad energy' about it. I used to go into Broad St etc and come home feeling extremely deflated.
this brings back so many memories i would of been 11 years old! i loved on the 44a and 44b woodley circular. Wished we had more titans on our route! ah the days when buses were buses before the Optare invasion!
Oh my.. this was just around the time I started working for RB.. I forgot the buses even looked like that when I was driving them.. and seeing Broad street open to traffic like that seems so strange now... It's sad some things have to change.. it's hardly ever for the better...
@Markjuk The Metropolitans were all gone by 1992 (prototype GRX1N being the last to go oddly enough) but the Titans & Metrobuses were still about in the 21st century.
Watching this it is amazing how much Reading and its transport has changed in the last 20 years! When were the Reading Transport buses in this video withdrawn from service?
@00simonwise GRX 1N wasn't a prototype, merely the first of its type in Reading. NVP533M was the Scania Metropolitan demonstrator that was also the first one to be built.
The buses that you see, are real buses, not the down-right dangerous Eco buses of today! The only true Eco bus, Reading Corporation Transport already had them O_O we called them, Trolleybuses! =D 17, & 18 Routes were for the Trolleybus. Dodgy-Handshakers got rid of them, all over the country. Dodgy-Handshakers are still being Non-Democratic to this day!
Wow, excellent footage. I left Reading in 1988, and this is exactly how I remember it.
Left reading in 99, went back to visit in 2023, boy has it changed.
Its all pedestrianised now - most of this was filmed on Broad St and Friar St. The lines of buses coming out and turning in is Station Road that connects to both streets - even thats pedestrianised now. Looking at this makes me realise it was for the best really and safer too for the pedestrians. But I do miss the chaos of it. Lot of memories of the town as was all flood back to me.
Great memories of waiting on Broad Street for the No43 or 44A to Woodley 👍
3:41 Concorde flies over, making it 11am approximately
absolutely fantastic, reading was a better place back then as such, you can even hear a concorde flying over
I couldn't wait to leave the place (which I managed to do, come the year of this clip. Late September '89, I think). I made the mistake of a couple of years' foray back to my hometown in the early '00s: made me appreciate being anywhere but Reading.
@@andrewmclellan3992 Yes, its a terrible place now - it certainly has a 'bad energy' about it. I used to go into Broad St etc and come home feeling extremely deflated.
this brings back so many memories i would of been 11 years old! i loved on the 44a and 44b woodley circular. Wished we had more titans on our route! ah the days when buses were buses before the Optare invasion!
Who’s trying to find their relatives on here? lol
Oh my.. this was just around the time I started working for RB.. I forgot the buses even looked like that when I was driving them.. and seeing Broad street open to traffic like that seems so strange now... It's sad some things have to change.. it's hardly ever for the better...
@Markjuk
The Metropolitans were all gone by 1992 (prototype GRX1N being the last to go oddly enough) but the Titans & Metrobuses were still about in the 21st century.
Smelly Alley too!
Watching this it is amazing how much Reading and its transport has changed in the last 20 years! When were the Reading Transport buses in this video withdrawn from service?
The 24 coley park bus
@00simonwise GRX 1N wasn't a prototype, merely the first of its type in Reading. NVP533M was the Scania Metropolitan demonstrator that was also the first one to be built.
I couldn't hear concord,only the sound of the buses.
Wow reading bus look so old I was born in 2010 things look similar
You are 14, everything is old 😂
1:30 what brand/model bus is that
*lived
Concorde*
The buses that you see, are real buses, not the down-right dangerous Eco buses of today! The only true Eco bus, Reading Corporation Transport already had them O_O we called them, Trolleybuses! =D 17, & 18 Routes were for the Trolleybus. Dodgy-Handshakers got rid of them, all over the country. Dodgy-Handshakers are still being Non-Democratic to this day!
Quite a lot jaywalkers, almost like an Asian city :P yet not nearly as chaotic as your typical Asian city.