Buses

[somme1916]

BLAKEY wrote: BIG N wrote: Thats an excellent model of Bramley and you can bet if their early turn inspectors were anything like ours the first bus given out at early morning run out would be the one tucked up tight against the ramp wall lol. I had to chuckle at that Big N - as it reminds me of a situation which I once brought upon myself as a "nutty" enthusiast. While at Pontefract Depot I often very willingly used to help out at Selby - a depot I loved and to which I would have transferred eagerly if only it hadn't been twenty five miles each way from home. I always used to get to work early for a leisurely start and one morning I arrived at Selby to find that two red Olympians (of course from your area) had been transferred in. One was bereft of names (having narrowly escaped the planned sale) but the other still proudly proclaimed "YORKSHIRE BUSES" on the sides. "I MUST have a go in that and take an all time epic picture of it in Goole" thought I. The foreman was sympathetic, shaking his head sadly, but pointed out that I'd have to move half the yard to extract it for my early run out. "Consider it done" said I, and proceeded to drown the peaceful town in black diesel from half a dozen other cold starters before getting into position for off - and I got my epic picture of it in Goole (one that I treasure) while a nice old kid in the flats near the terminus shook HIS head sadly on his balcony. Later that day, in the canteen, a very irate driver stormed in bellowing "Who took that bloody red heap out this morning ? - its just broken down coming from Leeds and cost me my mealtime."I just pretended to be reading the paper and kept quiet I don't think the splendid 565 deserved that sort of abusive description do you ?? - it was OK for the short while that I had it that morning !! Nice story Blakey you rascal ! Anyhow,not often top 3 threads on the site are dominated by bus issues.Grab it while you can !

[Phill_dvsn]

Good to see there were cranks on the buses too, the railway also had said characters who did their best to 'influence' certain motive power on to trains. There were a few in York, and Crewe control, which more or less covered the whole Northern region nicely. Totally unsuitable motive power was to be found allocated to 'fixed trains' as long as no one in the higher echelons noticed the ''errant'' loco's roster. There was always a good days notice of fixed workings, and the nobbled train would be wedged full with enthusiasts, more often the trains resembled railtours. Bemused passengers aplenty!Here's one such fixed loco, a class 40 on passenger stock in the dark winter month of January 1985, steam heat boiler blowing off like a good un!! At the time they were only 12 of these locos left in service, two weeks later they were all switched off for good. They hadn't been diagrammed for winter passenger work for years, most of the boilers had been isolated, or removed from these locos, and those still with steam heat boiler didn't work, or hadn't had them switched on for an age.At the time they would have had to have a second man to work this train, he would have had to know his stuff too to work that old Clayton steam heat boiler.Now that's what a crank in control can do Sorry for swerving off bus topic, but it had to be done                                     

[yorkiesknob]

Man, this is what I love about SL. In the blink of an eye we've gone from a bus doing press ups to a model bus depot, then yarns from way back, to loco at York.Keep it up boysCheers Yorkie