Deepdene Boy 642 Posted May 24, 2018 Report Share Posted May 24, 2018 22 hours ago, mercurydancer said: I was given, as a gift this Christmas, a Leeds city transport Crossley DD2 model. It looks very similar to buses I recall going from Trent Bridge to Hyson Gree. Is it the same type of bus or something different? MD, NCT never operated Crossleys, and, being Leeds City Transport, I presume that the bodywork would have been built by Roe, a bodybuilder NCT only favoured for trolleybuses, until a batch of 10 Leyland Atlanteans (471-480, NNN471-480W) in 1981 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deepdene Boy 642 Posted May 24, 2018 Report Share Posted May 24, 2018 19 hours ago, IAN123. said: Fares pplease!! She can punch my ticket! 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,872 Posted May 25, 2018 Report Share Posted May 25, 2018 This might be true, it might not. A rowdy passenger was asked by a conductor for his fare, passenger said " my face is my ticket" conductor said ok let me punch it. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted May 27, 2018 Report Share Posted May 27, 2018 Fare stage ! A request stop meant that, if you wanted the bus then stick yer hand out ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deepdene Boy 642 Posted May 27, 2018 Report Share Posted May 27, 2018 Compulsory stop signs were red. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deepdene Boy 642 Posted May 27, 2018 Report Share Posted May 27, 2018 The picture of 727 must have been taken before it was impaled on the lamp post at Sneinton Hermitage because it came back in the white livery worn by the Leyland Leopards after repair. AEC SWift NAL545F was the last bus delivered to WBUDC before the takeover. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
denshaw 2,872 Posted May 27, 2018 Report Share Posted May 27, 2018 Yitney, not heard that for years. Translation, scaredey pants, coward, yellow, etc. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted May 28, 2018 Report Share Posted May 28, 2018 11 hours ago, Deepdene Boy said: Compulsory stop signs were red. Can.t ever remember red bus stops. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deepdene Boy 642 Posted May 28, 2018 Report Share Posted May 28, 2018 I think that they were phased out during the 1960s. I can remember one on Wigman Road, just past Bracebridge Drive, which was the original terminus for the 56. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted May 28, 2018 Report Share Posted May 28, 2018 If a stop said "Request Stop" then the onus was on the passenger to put their hand out & if the stop said "Bus Stop" then that was/is a compulsory stop. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
FLY2 10,108 Posted May 29, 2018 Report Share Posted May 29, 2018 Saw a bus in town today on the Arnold route, and it was named Albert Ball VC. Brilliant ! Well done NCT. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roger peatman 337 Posted May 30, 2018 Report Share Posted May 30, 2018 11 hours ago, IAN123. said: perhaps Deepdene,Roger and Catfan recall this demo in the Square ..about the closing of bus depots? Can't say that I do. - What year was this Ian ? 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted May 30, 2018 Report Share Posted May 30, 2018 I think that would be when the council decided to close Bilborough Depot, the only purpose built bus depot in the city, all others being old tram sheds except Central Market depot which was .....................an old indoor market ! Year would have been late '70s early '80s. Sadly this brought on the desire by Nottm City council to close Bulwell & Sherwood depots too. Central Market depot was only temporary anyway. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roger peatman 337 Posted May 30, 2018 Report Share Posted May 30, 2018 4 minutes ago, catfan said: I think that would be when the council decided to close Bilborough Depot, the only purpose built bus depot in the city, all others being old tram sheds except Central Market depot which was .....................an old indoor market ! Year would have been late '70s early '80s. Sadly this brought on the desire by Nottm City council to close Bulwell & Sherwood depots too. Central Market depot was only temporary anyway. I left in 1980 and as I recall, I was still servicing Bulwell ,Central Market, and of course, Trent Bridge. - occasionally, I had to go to Sherwood and Bilboro' if Norman was off at Sherwood. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted May 30, 2018 Report Share Posted May 30, 2018 The council expressed a desire to close Bilborough Depot & that caused widespread protests across the job with threats of strike action, but the union was unable to stop the closure. Remember that period well. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
roger peatman 337 Posted May 30, 2018 Report Share Posted May 30, 2018 4 minutes ago, IAN123. said: The sequence of pictures Roger...seem to be mainly 1977. Does that tie in with anything? If that's right , it will just be old age and poverty which is causing my memory loss !! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted May 30, 2018 Report Share Posted May 30, 2018 15 hours ago, IAN123. said: perhaps Deepdene,Roger and Catfan recall this demo in the Square ..about the closing of bus depots? I remember that demonstration in front of the Council House. After running all the buses into their respective depots we had a mass meeting at the Co-op Arts Theatre on Broad Street before marching on the Council House in protest of the planned Bilborough Depot closure. Your dad will remember that occasion Deepdene ! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted May 30, 2018 Report Share Posted May 30, 2018 NEP reporter crept in & was soon spotted & Kicked out, politely of course. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deepdene Boy 642 Posted May 30, 2018 Report Share Posted May 30, 2018 6 hours ago, catfan said: I remember that demonstration in front of the Council House. After running all the buses into their respective depots we had a mass meeting at the Co-op Arts Theatre on Broad Street before marching on the Council House in protest of the planned Bilborough Depot closure. Your dad will remember that occasion Deepdene ! Mick,this would have been after Dad had left NCT, in December '76, to take up a full time post with the TGWU in Burton-on-Trent. If I remember correctly Bilborough closed as bus depot in November 1978 and was used by the City Council for housing refuse and maintenance vehicles. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deepdene Boy 642 Posted May 30, 2018 Report Share Posted May 30, 2018 Ian, 452, was allocated to Bilborough depot, and services 13, 16, 16a, 32, 56, 60, 62 and 74, which were operated by Bilborough depot used Long Row West as their City terminus. It is likely that 452 was parked as a spare should the need arise to replace a faulty vehicle on one of these routes. Atlantean 586 is in Leicester operating a route that was run for a short time following de-regulation in 1986. I don't know about Gregory Street being used as a learner route, but Bracebridge Drive certainly was as I can remember watching these past my Nan's house. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Deepdene Boy 642 Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 Incidentally, 452, is under going restoration at the Hucknall Bus Museum 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,080 Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 Hi Deepdene Boy when you stated about Hucknall Bus Museum where is it please? one more question with you signing in as Deepdene did you use to live in Broxtowe.? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 Hucknall bus museum is situated in the old Trent bus garage ! When I joined NCT in '74 they had half a dozen of those learner buses always parked up in Bulwell Depot overnight, took my test on one of those around Bilborough. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
mary1947 2,080 Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 42 minutes ago, catfan said: Hucknall bus museum is situated in the old Trent bus garage ! When I joined NCT in '74 they had half a dozen of those learner buses always parked up in Bulwell Depot overnight, took my test on one of those around Bilborough. Thanks for the info hopefully will get down there sometime, it makes you wonder how many people know about it, thanks to you and Deepdean boy people now know where to go. 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
catfan 14,793 Posted May 31, 2018 Report Share Posted May 31, 2018 Do check first before visiting Mary, the museum is staffed by volunteers & only open certain times i.e. bank holidays etc. https://nottinghamheritagevehicles728.weebly.com/ 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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