Bus Heritage Running Day Event Southampton 8th September 2013
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ย. 2013
- Southampton held a Bus Heritage Day in recreating some of the bus routes from the city to Portswood, the Docks and Royal Pier there were various vintage buses on display to view and take a free ride on,
There were about 8 buses or so that used to run around Southampton in days gone by, one bus used to run routes around Bournemouth and a couple of London Transport Buses, and two green buses 'Hants & Dorset' there were regents, a lodeka, Atlantean, Swift and a Guy Arab bus.
The buses I manged to see and are in this video are listed below in all a total of 15.
Reg No: Fleet No: Livery: Model: Year New in Service:
HLJ 44 TD 895 Hants & Dorset Bristol K6A 1949
SRU 981 1368 " " Lodeka 1956
KOW 910F 402 Southampton City AEC Regent V 1967
318 AOW 318 " " 1962
BOW 503C 366 " " 1965
KOW 909F 401 " " 1965
123 BYE 06 (337 AOW) " Leyland Titan 1963
LOW 217 71 " Guy Arab lll 1954
JOW 499E 1 " AEC Swift 1967
373 FCR 353 " AEC Regent V 1963
THX 193S Portsmouth City Leyland National 1978
YLJ 147 147 Bournemouth Leyland PD3/1 1959
GLJ 467N 3315 Hampshire Bus Bristol VRT 1974
MLL 685 RTL 1323 London Transport Leyland 1952
SMK 679F RML 2679 London Transport AEC Regent
I really enjoyed this video...thanks for posting it. I lived in Southampton from the age of 3 until I was 21. Seeing the 17a made me very nostalgic when I thought about all those trips home to millbrook after a night out in town.
+Tony Wille Thank you very much glad you enjoyed watching the buses of times past in my video, I used to catch the no 5 from Millbrook and take the long route round to Woolston and ride the Floating Bridge back and forth then catch the bus back to Millbrook again great days they were.
brings back some memorys as a kid in the UK, way b/4 power stering watching the driver wheel them around,,,lol nice video. thanks
What a nice video. As someone who wrote the original article it's fantastic to see people get involved and get on the buses. I hope they do this again in the future. Also nice to see people keeping certain things that made Southampton what it is alive.
Kind regards
Michael Carr (Daily Echo reporter)
Michael, many thanks for your very kind comments about my video, I also hope they do another bus running day as I enjoyed watching these old timers strut their stuff back on the roads of Southampton.
Nice one Steve , like to see the old buses , dont seem that long since they where running, I got a psv when 21 49 years ago , on a old Albion single decker , 6 speed box , bit of a pig to drive with the crash box
Thank you very much your comment is very much appreciated, I enjoyed watching all the old buses that I did manage to see, they brought back many memories for me. :) Steve
147 sounded in need of some TLC I thought! Thanks for posting this, a great event that I sadly missed :(
I only knew about it when I read the local paper a couple of days before the event. I have seen your clip of when you were in London about the running of a steam loco on the overground railway at Wimbledon nice one :) Steve
Great video. Knew nothing about this, Steve. But then I was in London. :-) Dan
Great vidoe! We have enjoyed watching it :)
Great Video!
I like double decker buses. I love RM.
Thanks Dave, the old Bournemouth buses engine sounds quite throaty I thought.
Wrong area of London. :-D These trains were between Wembley & Amersham. The last of the DCEs is tomorrow, though the times are different. The outward run is at Southampton Central at 13:30 and the return is around 19:30.
I realised afterwards I replied with the wrong area of London, I knew it was one of the W's. Yes last of DCE tomorrow, not sure where I shall be to see 'Cromwell' pass through.
Why did the green Bristol at the beginning have a London Transport symbol on the radiator (and a LT garage code on the side)?!
Sorry but I do not have the answer to this question but it is a very good point as you spotted it, I was just there to video these old buses, perhaps someone else might know the reason why.
There is not a garage code "PT" for LT however.. Look here...
www.bristolsu.co.uk/k/operatordetails/hantsanddorset/hlj44.htm
...and you will that it was on loan to LT in February 1949 and based at Amersham.
That is as good as it gets.
Yes some of these cyclists take no notice of traffic lights and they are the ones to complain if they are involved in an accident and blame the motorist, I see many a cyclist go through a red light even yesterday when I was out it happened and I gave a shout to him he took no notice of me and carried on cycling.
Nice recording, isn't it amazing how many cyclists don't feel the need to comply with the RTA unless it happens to suite them!
Typical cyclist 1:22 ...