Buses

Bramleygal · Post by **Bramleygal** » Tue 27 Sep, 2011 1:43 am

After all these years (I'm now 71) I remember the bus numbers. #77 into town from Bramley. #44 (double decker) or 45 (single decker) from Headingley home (got off the 45 at Amen Corner) but had to exit earlier on 44 and walk up Brewery Hill.. Tram from my high school (LGHS) near Hyde Park to North Lane or just walk. No wonder I'm so fit now. Just realized just how far I used to walk in my youth.

amber · Post by **amber** » Tue 27 Sep, 2011 10:11 am

Since deregulation 1n 1986 (is it so long ago) The way way First has messed up the routes and the massive rise in fares alot more people will be walking but not to keep fit but out of necessity.

Glax · Post by **Glax** » Sun 02 Oct, 2011 9:35 am

When my family first moved from Leeds 9 to the new council estate at Seacroft in 1949, the No. 78 bus ran up to the top of South Parkway and turned just before reaching York Road, looping back down to Leeds bus station, starting on a parallel roadway.The two stretches of road were up here separated by a 20-metre wide patch of spare land.Later a No. 79 bus served the newer North Parkway.At first the Corporation buses were painted blue, later changing to a green livery because, we were told, green didn`t fade so quickly in sunlight.The numbers were also changed to 15 and 16.Years later, in my late teens, I was on the top deck on a journey into work on a holiday job in Leeds. It was just after New Year, and yesterday`s snowfall clothed the whole landscape in a wonderfully clean brightness.As we came to the bottom of South Parkway, the conversation noise on the crowded bus started to get louder. And, with my nose buried in a crossword, even I noticed passengers all moving to the offside of the bus and pointing.I joined them just as we reached a huge roundabout, a vast area of virgin snow like a scene out of a traditional Christmas card.Except that the purity of the snowfield was broken only by a set of lonely footprints which wandered every which way, formed little circles here and there, and in parts showed where someone had slipped, fallen, and rolled around.The wavering trail across the roundabout told a tale of drunken endeavour and almost hopeless effort to get somewhere.Worse, it was obvious looking back that progress up South Parkway had been at the cost of an uncontrollable zigzag with more falls, sometimes through garden hedges.The jokes and hoots of laughter had by now reached max volume, when I suddenly remembered I myself had been at a very drunken party the night before - not far from here.I`d walked home in the early hours. And South Parkway was my route home. Then came memory flashes of uncountable collisions, gropings, trudgings, collapses and struggles through and over cold, wet obstacles - and a monumental headache.Yes, we were looking at blatantly public evidence of my gallant attempts to stay upright after consuming enough booze to float the Titanic.I went quietly and furtively back to my crossword, secretly nursing my awful hangover.Glax

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Sat 23 Jun, 2012 1:32 pm

Saw a splendid sight in Leeds City Centre earlier today.It was a Leyland Panther bedecked in the green/cream livery of the West Yorkshire Automobile Co.....On the side it said the bus was built by C.H.Roe 1967 and delivered to their Belle Isle depot in Wakefield that year.Reg: LHL 164F NOSU1/1R 702506 ( I believe it's based in Dewsbury).It was en route to the Middleton Railway celebratory weekend event.1 for Blakey and chums !!!!!!

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 24 Jun, 2012 1:22 pm

somme1916 wrote: Saw a splendid sight in Leeds City Centre earlier today.It was a Leyland Panther bedecked in the green/cream livery of the West Yorkshire Automobile Co.....On the side it said the bus was built by C.H.Roe 1967 and delivered to their Belle Isle depot in Wakefield that year.Reg: LHL 164F NOSU1/1R 702506 ( I believe it's based in Dewsbury).It was en route to the Middleton Railway celebratory weekend event.1 for Blakey and chums !!!!!! Its a very fine vehicle and beautifully preserved. Sadly, in general terms, the Panther was not one of Leyland's most sucessful models - it had many parts in common with the AEC Swift which likewise had a dubious record. These "ups and downs" are what make the study of the bus industry over the years so fascinating to enthusiasts.

BLAKEY · Post by **BLAKEY** » Sun 24 Jun, 2012 1:26 pm

Glax wrote: The jokes and hoots of laughter had by now reached max volume, when I suddenly remembered I myself had been at a very drunken party the night before - not far from here.I`d walked home in the early hours. And South Parkway was my route home. Then came memory flashes of uncountable collisions, gropings, trudgings, collapses and struggles through and over cold, wet obstacles - and a monumental headache.Yes, we were looking at blatantly public evidence of my gallant attempts to stay upright after consuming enough booze to float the Titanic.I went quietly and furtively back to my crossword, secretly nursing my awful hangover.Glax Thank you Glax for a wonderful tale, told with great suspense, and its set me chuckling for the day - and when all's said and done we've all been there haven't we ?? - well I admit that I have in olden days.

somme1916 · Post by **somme1916** » Sun 24 Jun, 2012 2:09 pm

BLAKEY wrote: somme1916 wrote: Saw a splendid sight in Leeds City Centre earlier today.It was a Leyland Panther bedecked in the green/cream livery of the West Yorkshire Automobile Co.....On the side it said the bus was built by C.H.Roe 1967 and delivered to their Belle Isle depot in Wakefield that year.Reg: LHL 164F NOSU1/1R 702506 ( I believe it's based in Dewsbury).It was en route to the Middleton Railway celebratory weekend event.1 for Blakey and chums !!!!!! Its a very fine vehicle and beautifully preserved. Sadly, in general terms, the Panther was not one of Leyland's most sucessful models - it had many parts in common with the AEC Swift which likewise had a dubious record. These "ups and downs" are what make the study of the bus industry over the years so fascinating to enthusiasts. Cheers Blakey......it's good to see these old specimens still in active use from time to time,even if some of the passengers looked a tad uncomfortable !

yorkiesknob · Post by **yorkiesknob** » Tue 24 Jul, 2012 10:58 am

Hi Blakey, Could any of the #50s you use to drive do this? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18952423

Keg · Post by **Keg** » Tue 24 Jul, 2012 11:25 am

Now that is what i call a bus!.I used to get a number 33 from Woodhouse Moor, up to either Holy Trinity Church or the Coop in Cookridge. It was 8p and my mum used to give me 10p for my fare.I walked down to the Moseley Woods, past the parade of shops which had either 2 chocolate logs at 1p each or 2 fruit salads for 1p and 2 blackjacks for the other penny.They were green LCT buses with the open platform as a back door.This would be around 1975-76.I was gutted to get on a silver jubilee bus in 1977 to find they looked the same inside as normal buses despite the jazzy paint job on the outside.

DAYoung · Post by **DAYoung** » Tue 24 Jul, 2012 7:55 pm

The bus being messed about with looks like a West Yorkshire Lodekka, but isn't. It's Southern Vectic 555, new in March 1958, exported in 1978 and now in the hands of the artist in the video, somewhere in the Czech Republic.But it's not a Leeds bus. A genuine Leeds bus that got away to Canada decades ago was Leyland TD5 306 of 1937 (FNW 306) which was sold to someone in Hamilton Ontario in 1951 and still existed in the Province of Ontario somewhere in open top form about 15 years ago, possibly in running order too.But I've heard nothing of it since then. Has anyone else?A, D, Young