Thanks for the video. Loving this. I started at GTL in Sept 2003 so have driven all these buses lol. Loved the Titans. 2703 and 3003 were my 2 favourites and also feature in this vid so well done Soi. I quite liked the Metrobuses too,but some of the dual doorway ones were very poor to drive. The ex Arriva refurbs were OK. I was the driver responsible in keeping the last Metrobuses 631and 818 outlasting all the others by at least 2 months as I had them fitted with full destination blinds. I took M818 out on the Last Day of the Metrobus tour of Liverpool routes which included a lunch and photo stop at New Brighton. I regularly took 818 on the 432s on Sundays in its final months. On Titans,I also arranged with management a Titan Farewell tour and as a bonus I drove T1 for the day even making it with a photo in buses magazine. Ha,we even managed to block up Liscard village with our convoy of Titans. What a great day that was. Our very last Titan to leave was 3003. I drove it to Workington 52mph on the motorway all the way lol. The accelerator cable gave in about 100 yards from the depot lol. Coming back was easier as I was driving newly delivered 34805. Even thats gone now! GTL were great days and enthusiast friendly. Massive thumbs up from me here👍👍👍
Thank you, i aim to please! I too have driven T1 when Blue Triangle borrowed it from East London/Stagecoach to cover emergency rail replacement after the bombs went off in 2007....we also had T2 (plus a few other early ones at BT), always prefered a Titan to a Metro unless i could get my hands on an RT or Routemaster, which wasn't unknown on rail jobs! I hope to get a Titan i own up & running and get down to Kirkby NWVRT one year, i always enjoy their open days.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus Yeh,they do have a couple of running days a year that sees a fair few buses our. Love and miss the Titans,just like mk1 Nationals. Those were great days eh.
@@chris-io1ki I enjoyed working on them from the 80s to the early 2000s....happy days....Had a ride on a nice MkII National at the NWVRT a couple of years back, lovely motor.....
One good thing about filling in the centre doorway is it would make for a nice luxury camper with some windows paneled over. You could have the interior five star while no one outside is any the wiser. It would have been exciting for a Liverpurdian bus nut to see these cascaded down to them.
As long as you have a license to drive a 10 ton vehicle and don't mind around 12 miles to the gallon! I want to be a particular ex London Olympian a few years back but the company found a camper loon who paid way over the top for it. Within 9 months it was on Ebay minus it's seat frames & cushions and generally mucked about with, and not converted for even more money.......it didn't sell though......
Always remember seeing my first titan in Liverpool it was CUL 217V which eventually became 2217 in the MTL fleet. It came up for evaluation with them. Titans were rare as hen's teeth up north.
By the time I started doing buses in 1987 the GM titans had all be withdrawn I think.when I saw cul 217v didnt think that MTL would buy nearly 250 of them and probably a bit more for spares as well.
Thanks for the video.
Loving this.
I started at GTL in Sept 2003 so have driven all these buses lol.
Loved the Titans.
2703 and 3003 were my 2 favourites and also feature in this vid so well done Soi.
I quite liked the Metrobuses too,but some of the dual doorway ones were very poor to drive.
The ex Arriva refurbs were OK.
I was the driver responsible in keeping the last Metrobuses 631and 818 outlasting all the others by at least 2 months as I had them fitted with full destination blinds.
I took M818 out on the Last Day of the Metrobus tour of Liverpool routes which included a lunch and photo stop at New Brighton.
I regularly took 818 on the 432s on Sundays in its final months.
On Titans,I also arranged with management a Titan Farewell tour and as a bonus I drove T1 for the day even making it with a photo in buses magazine.
Ha,we even managed to block up Liscard village with our convoy of Titans. What a great day that was.
Our very last Titan to leave was 3003. I drove it to Workington 52mph on the motorway all the way lol.
The accelerator cable gave in about 100 yards from the depot lol. Coming back was easier as I was driving newly delivered 34805. Even thats gone now!
GTL were great days and enthusiast friendly.
Massive thumbs up from me here👍👍👍
Thank you, i aim to please! I too have driven T1 when Blue Triangle borrowed it from East London/Stagecoach to cover emergency rail replacement after the bombs went off in 2007....we also had T2 (plus a few other early ones at BT), always prefered a Titan to a Metro unless i could get my hands on an RT or Routemaster, which wasn't unknown on rail jobs! I hope to get a Titan i own up & running and get down to Kirkby NWVRT one year, i always enjoy their open days.....
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus
Yeh,they do have a couple of running days a year that sees a fair few buses our.
Love and miss the Titans,just like mk1 Nationals.
Those were great days eh.
@@chris-io1ki I enjoyed working on them from the 80s to the early 2000s....happy days....Had a ride on a nice MkII National at the NWVRT a couple of years back, lovely motor.....
One good thing about filling in the centre doorway is it would make for a nice luxury camper with some windows paneled over. You could have the interior five star while no one outside is any the wiser.
It would have been exciting for a Liverpurdian bus nut to see these cascaded down to them.
As long as you have a license to drive a 10 ton vehicle and don't mind around 12 miles to the gallon! I want to be a particular ex London Olympian a few years back but the company found a camper loon who paid way over the top for it. Within 9 months it was on Ebay minus it's seat frames & cushions and generally mucked about with, and not converted for even more money.......it didn't sell though......
4:49 reminds me of WMPTE livery
Always remember seeing my first titan in Liverpool it was CUL 217V which eventually became 2217 in the MTL fleet. It came up for evaluation with them. Titans were rare as hen's teeth up north.
Manchester had a few, i remember seeing one at Dinting back in 1984 when chasing the last of the DC Class 506 EMUs......
By the time I started doing buses in 1987 the GM titans had all be withdrawn I think.when I saw cul 217v didnt think that MTL would buy nearly 250 of them and probably a bit more for spares as well.
Are they 1979 v reg?
I think V reg was 1980 as they jumped from t to v as their was no u reg.
Judging by the X2 ad it's winter 2002 2003. I used to see the Speke service roar up Parliament St in the 90s past the Cathedral.
that sounds about right. I need to dig out my moves book, as i tried to ride on as many as possible......
This is actually from 2003, around the time the last few Metrobuses were disappearing from London's streets.
Yes, it could well be, i will amend the title.
Is the bus station still there?
@@s125ish
The Paradise Street bus station has long gone as there's a new site called Liverpool One bus station now nearby.
weird how the metrobus front dest is upside down to normal, but they kept the titans as is?
I hadn't noticed that before, i wonder why?....
I always used to think the place name “FAZAKERLEY” was made up 😂😆😂
A bit like in Scotland, some funny names appeared on some of the Routemasters like Wormitt.....sound like something you should do to a cat!
@@SoiBuakhaoRoutemasterbus do you have a video of birkenhead buses from 2005 2006
@simonkalavszides6422 its not made up. Fazakerley is a part of Liverpool