Arriva North West - Bootle Depot

[mathias]

RE: Arriva North West - Bootle Depot

(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).