Well it’s a pure delight to watch those immaculate buses all gathered there. I expect to attend the NorthWestVRT Nocturnal Running Day in November at Kirkby, I’d be more than happy ! Meanwhile, please accept my warm and friendly greetings from Lausanne, Switzerland 🇨🇭.
@@Merseywail I’m totally fond of Liverpool since more than thirty years, it all started with the Beatles, then the city itself and now also its vintage public transport vehicles ! I’m also very glad that Merseyrail chose Stadler’s 777-class rolling stock ! 😉
@@StefanArlt1968 it's had its ups and downs but it's a great city. The 777s have had a few teething troubles but are settling down now. Some enthusiast's aren't happy with them as it's meant the demise of their beloved 507 & 508s
@@Merseywail I understand, I’m afraid that quite often happens with new vehicles, anywhere. I noticed a whole 507 (or was it a 508 ?) train parked at New Brighton early this month, perhaps used as a spare one. 😃
Ribble was one of my fav fleets among many ,did I see a Ralph Bennett inspired east Lancs Atlantean mum of the Mancunian ,loved the enviro 400 in NBC style retro livery ,I would like one in London printed in the mid seventies white upper deck window surrounds and yellow entrance doors ,another great video Mark 😊😊
Thanks mark. The Bolton atlantean is very Mancunian in style, a very nice bus. We had a few arriva enviro 400s in retro livery, one was in MPTE livery, another in Ribble . Sadly they have been repainted. Thankfully Stagecoach still has some.
I used to love hopping on the Ribble bus from Lydiate, service 341 to Skelhorn Street bus station. The smell of the diesel in there was heady!!! That will have been around 1978. The red Ribble buses always seemed smarter than the green n creams of MPTE! I can't remember what model of buses they were, Leylands for sure, and they had the big sliding door!! Conductor was always standing just inside the door, his bag with butties and a flask were on top of the engine cover!! And he had those fiendishly complicated looking ticket machines!!!
Exactly my memories of them too. My local services were the 57 58 59 to St John's lane. Or L2 L3 to Skelhorn st. The buses with the big sliding door were the Leyland PD3s. With the Metcam bodies, or the earlier Burlingham body one's. They were always nicer inside when compared to the spartan MPTE one's, a fact I like to point out lol
@@AtlanteanAN69 we get similar on merseyside with people pronouncing the second k in Kirkby or some who pronounce Fazakerley as faza-curly and not forgetting Maghull as Mag hull
Well it’s a pure delight to watch those immaculate buses all gathered there. I expect to attend the NorthWestVRT Nocturnal Running Day in November at Kirkby, I’d be more than happy ! Meanwhile, please accept my warm and friendly greetings from Lausanne, Switzerland 🇨🇭.
Thanks, nice to have a viewer in Switzerland! You will enjoy the Kirkby Nocturnal running day it's a cracking event
@@Merseywail I’m totally fond of Liverpool since more than thirty years, it all started with the Beatles, then the city itself and now also its vintage public transport vehicles ! I’m also very glad that Merseyrail chose Stadler’s 777-class rolling stock ! 😉
@@StefanArlt1968 it's had its ups and downs but it's a great city. The 777s have had a few teething troubles but are settling down now. Some enthusiast's aren't happy with them as it's meant the demise of their beloved 507 & 508s
@@Merseywail I understand, I’m afraid that quite often happens with new vehicles, anywhere. I noticed a whole 507 (or was it a 508 ?) train parked at New Brighton early this month, perhaps used as a spare one. 😃
@@StefanArlt1968 they haven't all gone yet. The 508s have but there's still a few 507s. Looks like September will be the end for them
This selection of buses is making Lytham sound like the centre of London!!
The old buses do make a good sound
Morecambe not Lytham
Very nice video. I do like some of the older buses.
It was a good event, a wide variety of ages of the buses
Great video, flowed well and great for us who could not go. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Peter, it was a very good day & perfect weather too. Worth a visit for next year for those that missed this one
That slow trip down the prom.. wonderful
We did have a slow run through there. The trip through to Carnforth was speedy when we got past the main town
Ribble was one of my fav fleets among many ,did I see a Ralph Bennett inspired east Lancs Atlantean mum of the Mancunian ,loved the enviro 400 in NBC style retro livery ,I would like one in London printed in the mid seventies white upper deck window surrounds and yellow entrance doors ,another great video
Mark 😊😊
Thanks mark. The Bolton atlantean is very Mancunian in style, a very nice bus. We had a few arriva enviro 400s in retro livery, one was in MPTE livery, another in Ribble . Sadly they have been repainted. Thankfully Stagecoach still has some.
Thank you for this great video !
Thanks very much
I used to love hopping on the Ribble bus from Lydiate, service 341 to Skelhorn Street bus station. The smell of the diesel in there was heady!!! That will have been around 1978. The red Ribble buses always seemed smarter than the green n creams of MPTE! I can't remember what model of buses they were, Leylands for sure, and they had the big sliding door!! Conductor was always standing just inside the door, his bag with butties and a flask were on top of the engine cover!! And he had those fiendishly complicated looking ticket machines!!!
Exactly my memories of them too. My local services were the 57 58 59 to St John's lane. Or L2 L3 to Skelhorn st. The buses with the big sliding door were the Leyland PD3s. With the Metcam bodies, or the earlier Burlingham body one's. They were always nicer inside when compared to the spartan MPTE one's, a fact I like to point out lol
Didn't even relatively small places like Morecambe & Heysham and Lytham St Anne's have some splendid liveries
You're quite correct. There was a sense of civic & company pride in the turnout of bus fleets back in the day.
Bloody 'ell! They've knocked the Broadway down!
Does anyone remember the Morecambe & Heysham open-topper with the mediæval battlements?
As you can probably tell from the accent am not local to Morecambe. So I don't remember them sorry
Happy Mount Park not Happy Valley. I think I had to correct you last year too lol.
I know lol, where is this happy valley, must be somewhere
@@Merseywail and like many non locals you pronounce Heysham wrongly as hay-sham rather than hee-sham which is correct.
@@AtlanteanAN69 we get similar on merseyside with people pronouncing the second k in Kirkby or some who pronounce Fazakerley as faza-curly and not forgetting Maghull as Mag hull
Happy valley is all over the news this week as it won awards in the baftas. Not your fault its pretty much ingrained in everyones noggin . 🤗
Or gate acre