Buses in Nottingham

[catfan 14,793]

11 hours ago, Deepdene Boy said:

Compulsory stop signs were red.

Can.t ever remember red bus stops.

[Deepdene Boy 642]

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.

[catfan 14,793]

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.

[FLY2 10,108]

Saw a bus in town today on  the Arnold route, and it was named Albert Ball VC. Brilliant ! Well done NCT.

[roger peatman 337]

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 ?

[catfan 14,793]

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.

[roger peatman 337]

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.

[catfan 14,793]

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.

[roger peatman 337]

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 !! 

[catfan 14,793]

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 !

[catfan 14,793]

NEP reporter crept in & was soon spotted & Kicked out, politely of course.

[Deepdene Boy 642]

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.

[Deepdene Boy 642]

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.

[Deepdene Boy 642]

Incidentally, 452, is under going restoration at the Hucknall Bus Museum

[mary1947 2,082]

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.?

 

[catfan 14,793]

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.

[mary1947 2,082]

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.

[catfan 14,793]

Do check first before visiting Mary, the museum is staffed by volunteers & only open certain times i.e. bank holidays etc.

 

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[catfan 14,793]

When I see old corpo buses in museums etc, I suddenly feel quite old ! Having driven most of em !

[Deepdene Boy 642]

14 hours ago, mary1947 said:

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.?

 

 

[Deepdene Boy 642]

Mary, yes, like many on here I was born at the Firs, and  then lived on Deepdene Way for the first three years of my life.

[jonab 1,644]

19 hours ago, catfan said:

Hucknall bus museum is situated in the old Trent bus garage!

 

The Trent bus garage is something that had entirely left my memory of Hucknall.

Am I right in thinking that it was/is about halfway down Portland Rd on the left going toward Boo - ul, near a garage and the entrance to the Miner's Welfare?

I have looked on Google Maps but things are so much changed in that area (no Bottom Pit, for one thing) that I am unable to work it out.

[trogg 2,016]

Here is a shot of the depot with a city transport bus parked , It is as you said on Portland road just by the old entrance to No 2 pit.

 

[jonab 1,644]

trogg, thanks for that. I used to walk that way every day when I was at Butler's Hill Junior school. It was all very different then. The garage had a swinging sign outside saying "Punctures 2d". I couldn't understand why anybody would pay tuppence to get a puncture - such is the odd mind of a 9-year-old.

 

Regarding the naming of the pits, we always said Top Pit and Bottom Pit. This No 1 Pit and No 2  Pit is completely new to me.

[catfan 14,793]

A Daimler with a pre-selector gearbox I think, not very nice to drive at all. Remember some of the Bulwell old timers talking about them if you didn't quite get the gear change right you could easily end up with a broken ankle !