Totongirl
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There is an HST running about which has been repainted into Blue Pullman livery.
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On 6/1/2021 at 6:17 PM, philmayfield said:
I don’t know if they still do but City Transport used to hand paint their buses. A spray booth for a double decker plus the extraction system would have been a formidable structure.
I think they are contracted out for painting nowadays, not certain though.
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6 minutes ago, denshaw said:
I handed my notice in at work today and am retiring in July, no more shifts and weekend working, don't think I'll miss it. Any tips or hints appreciated regarding pastimes or hobbies?
Try to get as much exercise as you can, a daily walk if nothing else, stopping in all day isn't good. I've given myself a set get up time and bedtime, quite a luxury after years of shiftwork, I try to have a decent walk in the nature reserve everyday, it's vital for health. Do you have a dog? Or friends with one? They are an excellent incentive to get you out there if the weather isn't special.
Try not to be in too much of a rush to do things, you'll have far more time but probably a lower income so you can't persue hobbies perhaps at the speed you might want to! What sort of things are you interested in? I'm teaching myself to play keyboard, it keeps my mind active and also my fingers supple. Remember, "use it or lose it" applies to physical and mental ability.
The main thing is to enjoy your time, relax a bit but don't spend days in front of the tele! Joining clubs or associations is good when we can, sharing interests with others and socialising, if you've been working shifts I expect you'll have shared my frustration in not being able to get involved with things like clubs etc.
Enjoy your retirement I'm sure you won't regret it.
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I've just recently retired and love it. After 40+ years of shift work, getting up at ungodly hours, trying to sleep during the day in heatwaves, working weekends, bank holidays and Christmas, it's wonderful having a regular rythmn to my day. I'm walking far more now, dog walking with my friend and doing my 10,000 steps a day everyday instead of just every now and then. How I found the time to go to work I don't know! And this has all been during lockdown, once we are free (if ever) I want to get involved far more in church activities and social life, can't wait.
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Were they painted red? Or is my memory playing up?
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I think this vehicle may still exist, wasn't it used by UKIP in the 2015 general election?
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It isn't owned by Network Rail as far as I know, I think it belongs to one of the maintenance companies. Bringing it back into Nottingham would involve a lot of demolition and the chsanging of Ladybay bridge back to rail use. Would cost millions.
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On 7/27/2020 at 8:08 PM, Cliff Ton said:
Clover Dairy seems to have been a dairy produce company delivering milk etc to many parts of Lincolnshire. They had a depot in Grimsby (and maybe other places)....which may partly answer your question.
Clover Dairy had a facility at Willoughby that's the one you'd have seen.
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Is the walkway open again now? The council were talking about legal action.........
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Well I'm offended by the idiots in charge of us, can they be "disappeared"?
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Hi Beekay, yes a better quality and quantity of gas! Plenty of "Old Farts" on here, myself included........
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19 hours ago, Beekay said:
Thank you Stuart, I've now got an image of buses queueing up on the A46 when it's time for a refill.
Well I had a vision of a large herd of cows in the depot all farting into the bus tank.........
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23 hours ago, philmayfield said:
The gas for the ‘gas’ buses is supplied direct from the mains gas. Don’t be mislead by the ‘enviro gas’ bit. The makers of the ‘green’ gas pump it directly into the mains. City Transport probably pay the ‘green’ gas supplier direct. It’s the same as ‘green electricity’, it all comes in on the same overhead cables.
I didn't know that, just assumed it was methane from natural sources! I did know that the electric buses (and cars) are charged off the grid which is laughable, coal or nuclear generated electricity going into them.
I often see one of those Nottbus 510/511 vehicles being charged at Beeston Interchange middle of the day, presumably because it can't complete a days work going up the hills either side of Bardills island!
So are any of the gas buses in use or have NCT gone back to diesel only?
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19 hours ago, ValuerJim said:
I stand corrected. I was unaware of the revival of the title, and of the South Yorkshireman. My interest in these trains ended in 1958!
Quite alright. The Master Cutler ran via Toton during the late 90s, now it goes via Derby in normal times. Of course there is no headboard or anything, to be honest I signalled it for months before realising the name was restored! For us each train is known by its reporting number, not its name.
I actually didn't know the South Yorkshireman name had been revived.
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57 minutes ago, ValuerJim said:
Sorry to be picky, but the Master Cutler never went into St Pancras. After it left the old GC route it went into Kings Cross.
It has done in recent years, I signalled it through Derby!
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During the lockdown I've noticed on my shopping trips to Beeston that the gas buses have gone from the Orange 36, replaced by Orange 35 diesel vehicles. Is this due to the higher cost of running the gas buses? Obviously I've not been elsewhere in Nottingham so don't know if gas buses are still operating on other routes.
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The Master Cutler, sadly I'm too young to have seen this train on the GC, I've only ever known it running into St Pancras. It is interesting however to speculate on how it would have been behind an A4 or even a Deltic into Marylebone?
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As a child I lived on Hucknall Road, I always remember the blue Midland General buses on the B8 to Mansfield. We had green and cream on NCT, red and white on Trent and blue and cream on MGO. The blue and cream was the most handsome livery, I was sorry when they got painted in that awful poppy red of NBC.
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On 3/16/2020 at 9:26 PM, Deepdene Boy said:
Hi Totongirl, the Hucknall Road routes you mention were on the "Bagthorpe" rota and were the first to be converteed to OMO (One Man Operation) in January 1970. Hence the reason for the Fleetlines and Atlantans being used on them. As at that time the drivers were still handling cash and issuing tickets from "Ultimate" ticket machines they couldn't leave their cabs to change the rear blinds. To my eye the OTO-M batch of Atlanteans were the finest examples of the Nottingham Standard.
Yes I'd forgotton about the drivers still handling cash in those days, now I remember, the red drop boxes and no change given started with the L registered Fleetlines.
It was pictures of the Fleetlines and Atlanteans from just before OMO and rebuilding that I was interested in, as I said they seem to be very hard to come by.
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22 hours ago, Beekay said:
I've got 2/3 pictures I have to clean up tomorrow if they're any use TG. But not quite sure what you're looking for. If you can elaborate or even PM me then I'll see what I can do. After all, two sets of eyes are better than one.
Hi Beekay, I'm just being nostalgic. As a child we lived on Hucknall Road and the 6/17/18/28 group of routes always seemed (to me as a child) to be used as a testing ground for brand new busses. I remember how handsome the HTO***D, MTO***F and PTO***G registered vehicles looked as they passed by. Pictures of the Daimlers in particular before they were rebuilt seem to be so rare and anything other than a standard front end view even more so. I always felt that rebuilding these busses spoilt them and removing the rear destination blinds to leave a black rectangle made them look awful!
Thank you in advance for any pictures you have, I keep looking on ebay as well.
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2 hours ago, Beekay said:
There are a couple of pictures on the previous page TG. Your last post just echoes what I said earlier about regretting not having a camera in my early days. I had some great times on NCT, but equally, some crap days.
Hi Beekay, I suppose we can all say that about our jobs! After many years I only do mine now for the money, they managed to beat the interest out of me years ago! There are actually a lot of pictures on this thread if you have an hour to spare going through it, just not quite "the one", not yet anyway! Thanks for the interest.
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18 hours ago, Oztalgian said:
Totongirl,
I know it is not a NCT Atlantean but is this the sort of bus you are looking for?
It is an ex NSW Transport bus Photo Daily Telegraph
Thank you but not really. I just remember the NCT Atlanteans and Fleetlines when they were brand new but still had conductors. We travelled on them quite a bit as a family, on one occasion the conductor let me press the lever on his ticket machine to issue my ticket. Just childhood memories but in those days only adults had cameras and my dad never used his to take pictures of NCT!
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22 hours ago, Stuart.C said:
Interesting website, thank you, but no pictures that I was looking for sadly.
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Has anyone got any pictures of Nottingham Atlanteans and Fleetlines before they were rebuilt with centre exits? I'd love to see the rear destination displays as well, these vehicles were so handsome in their original condition. Thanks.
The Blue Pullmans
in Pete's Nottingham Transport Forum
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There are some videos on Youtube, it's just a regular HST set repainted in the Pullman Blue livery. I'm not sure who operates it but it's used on specials. It went to northern Scotland last week, a friend of mine was on it.