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Post by vjaska on May 2, 2014 17:30:24 GMT
Tube strike next week is now definitely on - talks just broke down with neither side budging
Source: ITV London News
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Post by snoggle on May 2, 2014 17:44:12 GMT
Tube strike next week is now definitely on - talks just broke down with neither side budging Source: ITV London News Wagons roll for the great London Vintage Bus Rally 2014 (part 3).    |
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Post by ilovelondonbuses on May 3, 2014 12:42:32 GMT
Tube strike next week is now definitely on - talks just broke down with neither side budging Source: ITV London News Wagons roll for the great London Vintage Bus Rally 2014 (part 3). Definitely, I can now agree with BoJo that really is the year of the bus  |
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Post by RM5chris on May 3, 2014 14:49:39 GMT
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Post by M1104 on May 3, 2014 15:05:26 GMT
A pity the MD class Metropolitan were not preserve in a red livery, which could've been used on the 36, for which I remember traveling on back in 1979. |
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Post by twobellstogo on May 3, 2014 15:08:47 GMT
A pity the MD class Metropolitan were not preserve in a red livery, which could've been used on the 36, for which I remember traveling on back in 1979. Ensignbus's MD60 is close to being ready, restored to original condition, but clearly won't be ready for next week! |
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Post by M1104 on May 5, 2014 10:43:26 GMT
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Post by snoggle on May 5, 2014 10:58:36 GMT
Bah! No Vintage Bus Rally.  (just joking in case anyone thinks I wanted a strike to happen). |
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Post by snoggle on May 5, 2014 12:30:20 GMT
Ensignbus's MD60 is close to being ready, restored to original condition, but clearly won't be ready for next week! Ooooh! Time to take up the offer of a visit to Purfleet. Can't wait to ride on a MD again. |
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Post by twobellstogo on May 6, 2014 7:52:48 GMT
Ensignbus's MD60 is close to being ready, restored to original condition, but clearly won't be ready for next week! Ooooh! Time to take up the offer of a visit to Purfleet. Can't wait to ride on a MD again. MDs were part of my childhood, especially when they'd moved to suburban work on the 99, 180, 272 and similar. They had a lot of character, and like you, I'm very much looking forward to riding on the finished MD60. Would be wonderful for it to be allowed out to recreate some of its old routes, like the 36 group and some former PD routes  |
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Post by M1104 on May 6, 2014 8:10:41 GMT
Ooooh! Time to take up the offer of a visit to Purfleet. Can't wait to ride on a MD again. MDs were part of my childhood, especially when they'd moved to suburban work on the 99, 180, 272 and similar. They had a lot of character, and like you, I'm very much looking forward to riding on the finished MD60. Would be wonderful for it to be allowed out to recreate some of its old routes, like the 36 group and some former PD routes I have only ever been on one twice, the 36/a/b from Oval to Lewisham return in 1979. Incidentally what gearbox do they have? |
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Post by snoggle on May 6, 2014 8:48:04 GMT
Ooooh! Time to take up the offer of a visit to Purfleet. Can't wait to ride on a MD again. MDs were part of my childhood, especially when they'd moved to suburban work on the 99, 180, 272 and similar. They had a lot of character, and like you, I'm very much looking forward to riding on the finished MD60. Would be wonderful for it to be allowed out to recreate some of its old routes, like the 36 group and some former PD routes Well I am cheating very slightly as I didn't ride a LT one but Tyne and Wear had loads of them and I rode them all the time. I was also very lucky to be able to "drive" one a short distance at a terminal stop. I was only a teenager at the time. I think someone is trying to preserve a T&W example but I've no idea how well they're doing. |
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Post by moz on May 7, 2014 20:52:31 GMT
MDs were part of my childhood, especially when they'd moved to suburban work on the 99, 180, 272 and similar. They had a lot of character, and like you, I'm very much looking forward to riding on the finished MD60. Would be wonderful for it to be allowed out to recreate some of its old routes, like the 36 group and some former PD routes I have only ever been on one twice, the 36/a/b from Oval to Lewisham return in 1979. Incidentally what gearbox do they have? Not sure of details but an engineer we had at Waterloo who had worked on them at NX (and he'd done some years) said they were a Scania devised CVT transmission that meant they could go as fast backwards as they could forwards. He knew as he'd done it! Moz |
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Post by vjaska on May 7, 2014 22:07:17 GMT
I have only ever been on one twice, the 36/a/b from Oval to Lewisham return in 1979. Incidentally what gearbox do they have? Not sure of details but an engineer we had at Waterloo who had worked on them at NX (and he'd done some years) said they were a Scania devised CVT transmission that meant they could go as fast backwards as they could forwards. He knew as he'd done it! Moz Apologies if the link don't work, if it does, one of the comments mentions what engine & gearbox it had. |
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Post by Eastlondoner62 on May 19, 2014 15:38:56 GMT
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