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RE: Arriva North West - Bootle Depot - MPTE1955 - 02/07/2013 12:48
Remember the H-GPF City buses that used go work the 60, anybody remember which ones were here as I am down in Norwich this week and have seen H653 GPF & H689 GPF working norwich schools. Were either of these two here. Thanking you in advance.
RE: Arriva North West - Bootle Depot - mathias - 02/07/2013 14:45
(02/07/2013 12:48)MPTE1955 Wrote: Remember the H-GPF City buses that used go work the 60, anybody remember which ones were here as I am down in Norwich this week and have seen H653 GPF & H689 GPF working norwich schools. Were either of these two here. Thanking you in advance.
The B10M/East Lancs deckers based at Bootle were ArrNW 3691 (H661 GPF), 3692 (H662 GPF) and 3697 (H667 GPF). They were all ex-London and Country.
They had stumpy rear ends (the North Western Citybuses were more elegant in this respect) and ugly-looking oblong headlamps, which East Lancs insisted on using throughout the 1990s (the CityPLUS EL2000 Darts 1217-1264 also used these lights).
3697 at Queen Square nine years' ago....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/33216596@N02/4489547007
(Photo Credit; Steven Hughes)
3697 went to Northern Blue (as did 3691) and was scrapped in 2008.
An unhappy Christmas Day....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/87583925@N00/3135923686
(Photo Credit; Andrew Stopford)
3692 didn't fair much better, going to Dunn Line before getting stripped (then scrapped) at Ensign....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/46341292@N05/5287619833
(Photo Credit; RMC1490)
Happily, 3691 still survives (its on SORN until March '14 according to DVLA).
As seen here with Northern Blue....
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22694662@N06/2968714185
(Photo Credit; Ian Simpson).
RE: Arriva North West - Bootle Depot - MPTE1955 - 02/07/2013 15:16
Thanks Matthias, they are horrible looking things with the horrible back, don't know if they were any good as I never rode one on the Bootle ones at any time or any of the ones with ANW at all.
RE: Arriva North West - Bootle Depot - motormayhem - 02/07/2013 15:48
I driven the one skem had and it was actually better to drive than the marshalls,sounded a beast too.
RE: Arriva North West - Bootle Depot - MPTE1955 - 02/07/2013 15:51
(02/07/2013 15:48)motormayhem Wrote: I driven the one skem had and it was actually better to drive than the marshalls,sounded a beast too.
Are you saying that the Marshalls are good to drive MM.
RE: Arriva North West - Bootle Depot - motormayhem - 02/07/2013 16:01
Some are,as there is the odd few that are ok to drive but then there is some that are just awfulk to drive.
RE: Arriva North West - Bootle Depot - MX12CFE - 03/07/2013 06:15
Great photos mathias remember those buses fondly they were absolute beasts i rode one one night on the N350 nightbus from maghull to liverpool.
RE: Arriva North West - Bootle Depot - mathias - 03/07/2013 14:08
(02/07/2013 16:01)motormayhem Wrote: Some are,as there is the odd few that are ok to drive but then there is some that are just awfulk to drive.
Thing is, with the Marshalls, there's always that glass ledge where you can rest your left elbow
RE: Arriva North West - Bootle Depot - motormayhem - 04/07/2013 10:18
(03/07/2013 14:08)mathias Wrote:(02/07/2013 16:01)motormayhem Wrote: Some are,as there is the odd few that are ok to drive but then there is some that are just awfulk to drive.
Thing is, with the Marshalls, there's always that glass ledge where you can rest your left elbow
I know lol,thats great that ledge.
RE: Arriva North West - Bootle Depot - 507022 - 08/07/2013 19:28
I passed Marshall Dart 7660 on Menlove Avenue at 1725, broken down on a 61 with fitters in attendance