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It’s the 2 car class 142091 is previously allocated to NT - Northern. The train 🚆 🚊 🚂 is wearing the NT - Northern livery. Now it’s off lease and is unsure 🫤 what’s happened to the train 🚆. 👍
God, I miss these at Sheffield. These ran alongside B9TLs and were ultimately replaced by Streetdecks, hateful things they are. These B7s were (relatively) quiet, smooth and comfortable.
The 98 to Greengate Lane was my bus home after playing Snooker at Faulkners Snooker Club on Cambridge St. I would have been 13-14 in 85-86. Such fond memories seeing that 98 bus. Special. Thank you for the film. I shall cherish it.
Used to be great when some of the double deckers had speakers in upstairs and you'd hear Radio Hallam on, sometimes heard the great Johnny Moran Breakfast Show on the way to Town! 👍👍
Those Dennis Dominators were a terrifying experience to be a passenger on, especially as they were getting older & older and still used into the Mainline era, the back seat on the back downstairs seemed to move with the chassis and when speed humps were added to Sheffield's roads and their suspension was getting worse, I held on for dear life sitting upstairs!! But the Eager Beaver's I did think they were fine, until you hit a bump in the road and you lept up 2 foot from the seats! 🥴
Good ol'days when a bus said on the timetable was scheduled to turn up, it damn well turned up! Back in the day when you could set your watch to em' and when the services used to be there for the public/passenger and not what makes more money for the shareholders!! Come on Mayor, do like Burnham & get em' back under public control!! 👍
What a fantastic film. Takes me back to the days of South Yorkshire Transport in Sheffield which often received the accolade as the best public transport system in the country. It was brilliant. You could get anywhere in South Yorkshire and get a train to Doncaster from Sheffield for 25p. I always remember complaints about the Booth and Fisher Service which ran from the City Centre out to Killamarsh via Jordanthorpe and Eckington and having to pay 40p because you were going out of the South Yorkshire boundary into North East Derbyshire. I have fond memories of the Angel inn at Eckington and catching the last bus back to Jordanthorpe about 22:30. I used to go to a CB club there every Wednesday. Those were the days guys.
Taught me English for three years at Keighley Boys Grammar, as well as starting the Railway Club. I did feel the sole of his plimsoll on my arse a couple of times though. Lovely man though.
Very nostalgic video for me. My dad worked for SYT up until 1992 when he died. He worked in the cash department ( I think he was a cash clerk ) in Rotherham not in the town centre it was more towards Thorpe Hesley. Would be nice to hear from anybody that knew him.
Taught me at Keighley Boys Grammar for three years (1958-61) Ran a School Railway Society. Lovely man (even though he whacked me with a plimsoll a couple of times !)
I certainly do, but not for long in my childhood but 5p fares to places like Strines Inn on a Sunday morning (I don't mean it was only a Sunday fare offer! 😉🤣)
158804 honestly went to the operator called South West Trains in 2006-07 renumbered 159103 now wearing the South West Trains livery renamed South Western Railway since dated August 2017. All the original TransPennine Express livery have extinct. There is a second TransPennine livery livery. Other 158s went to East Midlands Trains now East Midlands Railway and other operator is First Great Western now Great Western Railway. Good trustworthy trains. Updated in the year 2022 first class accommodation honestly happens to be ScotRail and South Western Railway.
Similar vain, does anyone remember PA Jewellery ads on with Mr Hodgkiss' assistant with the boss being played by DJ Gerry Kersey on Radio Hallam? "Only a minute b' car from t' University or catch a 95 bus!" 😁
I helped Tony with his second bus project in the early 1980's when I was a pupil at Chesterfield School, where he was Head of English. We had a great laugh there at The Isle of Axholme shed. He used to take us down to the local chippy... It was a local legend and might even have been an original Harry Ramsden's or something like that. Anyhow, I remember riding on the running board of his buses on our way to rallies, where people would make recordings of the engine. Bless him, he was a good lad!
57 bus :) used to catch that regularly. The market Square was so much better then than the slab Square it is now. Most of these 2 way bus routes have gone now :(
Worked for Northern Counties for 27yrs until it’s closure in 2005 by Alexander’s, it was a very, very sad day, the company would have been 100yrs old in 2019
Fabulous film and brings back so many childhood memories! Just one clarification, if I may? Someone mentions the Clipper was a free service and then was raised to 2p; however I recall it being the other way around. If I remember correctly it was due to the bendi's somehow not being recognised as a chargeable service (I think to do with their articulated construction and some legal loophole at the time) and therefore the operator couldn't legally charge for the service. It was therefore decided that the 2p charge should be dropped for the route, even if some of the buses used were not articulated. I do remember the glass jar on the Nationals for dropping the 2p in, then these disappeared and you just hopped on and off. I wonder if any of the glass jars survived?
Wow that brought back a lot of memories for me, went to that garage many times as a kid with my Dad when he worked as a bus driver for Yorkshire Traction in Doncaster...
So many bus variations, trying to keep up with all the specific details unique to each one takes some getting ones head round. The good, the better, the not so good and the atrocious examples, all have their place in history. I used to use south yorkshire buses as a kid, fares were relatively cheap then, which was just as well they were. Preserving some em in full running order is pure nostalgia. Public transport, something most of us remember so well. Thanks for showing some great clips.🙂👍
