Surviving Leeds city transport buses

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Mon 27 Aug, 2007 10:32 pm

When did they stop using them old open back buses? I seem to remember one or two knocking about in the late 70s early 80s when i were a kid! think they were green(?) Maybe they were driver training units tho'.

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Mon 27 Aug, 2007 10:44 pm

This http://flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/1159371039/ was the last back loader to run in service Rangie but your right they were used as driver training units after that, There's some links to the buses still in service in my L.C.T sets! Yes i've seen some filling in this role maybe as late as 1989 for a short while. Always around the Torre road area! there even some of the old backloaders still dumped out of sight at seacroft garage untill 1982 the last time i looked in!

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Mon 27 Aug, 2007 10:53 pm

I seen em in the city around the old West Yorkshire bus station! dunno if they ever went in! Me and me mam used to get the 655/755 Bradford bus to Horsforth and it was a treat to see one of them old timers! Seacroft Garage? Where were that?

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Mon 27 Aug, 2007 10:58 pm

Phill_d wrote: This http://flickr.com/photos/phill_dvsn/1159371039/ was the last back loader to run in service Rangie but your right they were used as driver training units after that, There's some links to the buses still in service in my L.C.T sets! Yes i've seen some filling in this role maybe as late as 1989 for a short while. Always around the Torre road area! there even some of the old backloaders still dumped out of sight at seacroft garage untill 1982 the last time i looked in! December '76 eh? i was 15 months old!!! don't think i remember them in service then, do you? Bet it were that very bus tho'.................COOL!!!!!!

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Mon 27 Aug, 2007 11:10 pm

Yes i remember them running as a little lad! I used to love them, I remember the new Atlanteans slowly arrive & put these busses out of action, I used to hate when they turned up in there place. I also hated the new W.Y.P.T.E green & cream livery! My bus route was the 67 Monkswood-Bus station run & i'd love to know when they last worked this route!

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Mon 27 Aug, 2007 11:28 pm

I used to like the old red West Yorkshire buses! Dunno what make they were! They didn't seem to run any Atlanteans! And they never turned up on time! The joke was "What's the difference between Giraffes and West Yorkshire buses? There's no F in (F'ing) West Yorkshire buses" lol! Atlanteans were already well established on 'METRO' buses, were reliable then! Bleedin' privatisation!

Barwicker · Post by **Barwicker** » Mon 27 Aug, 2007 11:45 pm

West Yorkshire Buses were almost exclusively "Bristol" chassis with bodywork by Eastern Counties of Lowestoft. They were a nationalised company in all but name and very similar buses could be seen in many parts of the country. I can dimly remember WY buses with the rear staircase open never mind the back platform!! and I am not that old. If you really want to know something about Leeds Transport there are now four volumes of History published by the Leeds Transport Historical Society. Vols 1 to 3 are certainly available in Leeds libraries , Vol 4 is very new and goes up to 1974.

rangieowner · Post by **rangieowner** » Tue 28 Aug, 2007 12:23 am

Barwicker wrote: West Yorkshire Buses were almost exclusively "Bristol" chassis with bodywork by Eastern Counties of Lowestoft. They were a nationalised company in all but name and very similar buses could be seen in many parts of the country. I can dimly remember WY buses with the rear staircase open never mind the back platform!! and I am not that old. If you really want to know something about Leeds Transport there are now four volumes of History published by the Leeds Transport Historical Society. Vols 1 to 3 are certainly available in Leeds libraries , Vol 4 is very new and goes up to 1974. Yeah! they were called Yorkshire Traction in S Yorks if i remember correctly! still see Yorkshire Traction buses on Leeds/Barnsley run!

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Tue 28 Aug, 2007 1:22 am

Phill_d wrote: Yes i remember them running as a little lad! I used to love them, I remember the new Atlanteans slowly arrive & put these busses out of action, I used to hate when they turned up in there place. I also hated the new W.Y.P.T.E green & cream livery! My bus route was the 67 Monkswood-Bus station run & i'd love to know when they last worked this route! where was monkswood bus depot...........i am awake for this thread now!

Phill_d · Post by **Phill_d** » Tue 28 Aug, 2007 6:54 am

No Monkswood was the bus terminus, The buses were allocated nearby to the Seacroft depot thats still there used by the council these days on Limewood (Approach i think)