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tyke bhoy wrote: Not sure if Blakey will like this given his dislike of advertising liveries, however Arriva are celebrating 110 years by running a specially liveried bus on their flagship 110 route         The actual buses that ran on the West Riding route 10 between Kettlethorpe and Leeds were red. As Blakey says they replaced the trams and because of this were painted red. They were AEC Regents with a centre entrance Roe body. When these were replaced by the ill fated Guy Wulfrunians, those that ran on the former tram routes kept the red livery.http://www.sct61.org.uk/wr900a

BLAKEY wrote: [quotenick=Sorry to ramble folks, but as many will know someone only has to light the blue touch paper on this subject and I can prattle for ever !!      If adding a wonderful life's experience to the historic record of Leeds public transport is ramble and prattle, then please continue to ramble and prattle inspector!     

Resurrecting this old thread as it looks like the 110 started before it was a tram. Apologies because its only 100 yards from my home in Wakefield but it is at least Leeds bound. It was posted yesterday on the facebook Outwood network group

PS as a follow up to the discussion on this thread http://secretleeds.com/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=5982 about railings due to damage to those adjacent to Old School Board on Great George Street. The wall to the right is still in situ but the railings are long gone

Sorry to go off-topic but the picture just made me nostalgic for the magnificent Tetley shire horses that used to be regularly seen in the centre of Leeds coming from and returning to the brewery .

I quite agree Leodian - I''ve always admired "working" horses for being the handsome and dignified animals they are. Whenever I'm near the outbound bus atop in Abbey Road (opposite Kirkstall Leisure Centre) I always glance towards the yard which was the Leeds Tramways horse stable and which is still in use for various small businesses.

Leodian wrote:Sorry to go off-topic but the picture just made me nostalgic for the magnificent Tetley shire horses that used to be regularly seen in the centre of Leeds coming from and returning to the brewery .

i remember seeing them in bramley delivering to the daisy dont know if they got there under their own steam or were taken part of the way by lorry?