Jump aboard my RU-vid channel and come along for the ride. My videos are going to be an amateur dumping ground of footage I have taken on my old technology I have and still use camcorders and have loads of original footage that I need to learn to edit and share and hopefully you enjoy to watch ? If you like what you see please like the video and subscribe to my channel and it will motivate me to do more ... Feel free to comment on my videos
@@cidertom5140 I do have the Bristol Re video footage too. Please check my community posts for more info on that Thanks for comment it really means a lot to a small channel like mine
It's great that such an old bus has been kept in such a good mechanical condition. However, it's a shame that some people have covered the exterior in so many silly stickers. There's maybe a case for the vehicle to be stripped of all the stickers and simply gives a fresh paint job. No real need to alter the colour scheme I wouldn't have thought.
@@neilburns8869 Last year the owner entered and completed the Rust2Rome event where you drive your vehicle more notably a banger car rather than a Leyland Leopard from Edinburgh to Rome and completed the journey without issue except a few bodywork scrapes along the way .
Duple Dominant - such a stylish coach…almost American-looking from the front. Always lovely to see a 1970s Leyland Atlantean, too - the bus of my childhood!
Thank you it means a lot when moments before my dedicated camera of choice failed minutes earlier so recorded all this in a panic trying to resolve a factory reset / freeze.
Don't think is has the burble as a 680 and many years ago after been addicted to easy start this engine snapped a crankshaft and it took a while to source a replacement and engine rebuild. Also the museum website states 600 too in the dedicated vehicle description.
I was wondering if the tick over was too high as it was everytime from a standing start it would jerk violently when pulling away or gearbox bands need adjusyment
Bishop Auckland had quite a lot of bus companies for a town of its size;United,Northern,TMS,OK,Weardale,The Eden,Bond Bros..I am guessing that Scarlet Band and Martindales went there too.I think now just 4;Arriva NE,Go NE,Weardale and Hodgsons .
I remember that Tyne Link livery and it was used on the X10 Stokesley to Newcastle via Middlesbrough.I think that sometimes the X5 and X55 Hartlepool to Newcastle had the livery too.As they were joint services between United and Northern perhaps Northern had some vehicles turned out in it too?
I use to get them in the early 1980's when I lived in Hartlepool and used to go hiking around upper Weardale.I use to get the United to Bishop Auckland which I think was the number 19 and the Weardale 101 to Stanhope then another one to St John's Chapel which had the same number but was a different bus .
Drove this when new at Feethams.... (804 was too)..... United started fitting Taperlite springs when they were experiencing damage to the standard rear springs.... And it altered the ride quality of the bus.... It rolled in normal high speed motion and rocked and rolled in really windy weather....... But she's looking good thanks to Lee's hard work.
Thankyou for comment I am sure the event organisers will read your comment as well as the vehicle owners and preservation groups whom make events like this happen.
@@JohnUnderwood-yz2xu it is a very fine example and it sounded amazing and we kept up with modern traffic with ease I wasn't going to make e this video public due to my shakey camera footage as I was at the back seats above the engine but have to share Please check out my quick video of this vehicle as we hopped aboard and got a front seat view along side the owner driver Lee Garrett
Beautiful!! Nothing like that RE muffled sound along with gearbox whine. First time I have seen one of United’s RELH’s with ECW Bus Bodywork. What rear axile does it have - High speed or low speed. I recall Bristol offered 5 different rear axile ratios on the RE.
Many thanks for comment. This is another headache I have editing the next video where I sat at the only seats at the back and next to a toolbox and a tyre. Are bus fans accepting poor audio and rattles from the racking and just along for the ride. We rode on this and it was a lovely sound through Eldon tunnel and it's certainly did have a spurt on but Lee Garrett Bristol VR was an absolute flying machine. Learning about quality of sound with these buses and should know better still learning
There are steam locomotive societies and diesel locomotive societies. Are there any coach societies where I can donate to help keep coaches like this running? Cheers. Andrew Holloway
@@andrewholloway231 many thanks for your kind comment and interest in donating funds towards preserving old buses . I should compile a list of local preservation groups and add them in a link within the video to correspond with the vehicle I am travelling on at the time . It's has been on my mind for a while to do this as a community post to support them. I had to include Paul's introduction within the video and his passion for his expensive hobby . I will make this my first job in the morning to make enquiries as it's a good point to raise with preservation groups
@@barbarasmith8253 many thanks for comment hoping you are enjoying the current short 5 minute ish content videos Yes the old lady is 51 years old and still going strong and in safe hands
I remember seeing this bus in Lockey's yard, still in East Kent livery, and thinking it was a bit special. Mind you, growing up in 1960's Bishop Auckland there was an amazing variety of buses and the unusual was quite normal. It was a bit of a shock going to university in Midland Red land. I now live in East Kent land so, although I see a preserved PFN now and then, it's the wrong colour. This was a nice bit of nostalgia. Does the satnav not go to Evenwood?
@@cpestrauss8740 You would see a huge change in Bishop Auckland town centre nowadays and last weekend Yesterbus ran recreating service of old services with period vehicles and PFN did a run from Bishop Auckland market place to Ramshaw and return. I did catch a bit of video to be edited shortly. Please check my other recent videos and view my community page posts where I document events I attend in the North East. Many thanks for the comment and this interaction from the viewers is what I want people sharing memories and experiences travelling around the North East.
@@The-Silent-Rider I'm old enough to remember "playing out" and working out the time from the owner of the bus on the Bishop Auckland - Evenwood run. I travelled to Barnard Castle Teesdale school on an OK contract bus for seven years. I remember - RTLs/RTW, ex-Southdown PD3's, ex-Brighton Bristol K, ex-Newcastle Atlantean, the "new" OK PD3 (just the once) before it degenerated into Bus Grant coaches. I can't remember the name of the hill beside Raby Castle but few school bus drivers, used to the ex-LT buses, could get the K up it without a graunching gear change half way up, usually with several attempts at it. Not a happy moment for the driver, especially with a bus full of teenagers. It didn't last long.
This vehicle is absolutely immaculate inside and out and the owner is very fastidious and I like the trims as I started with an independant operator and it was company policy always insisted the shiny bits on the axles will remain ... till they got took over by Go-Ahead group and yes within days they got slung for these type of recorders
Very nice content and well edited not like some RU-vidrs whom showed some really dodgy "I'm first" poor quality footage of this event. Just checked your other videos and they are very well edited so its another subscriber and just checking up old local history where I was brought up and seemed to be enjoying this so much I searched for more. Brilliant . remember those old Ok buses well Very surprised you haven't got more subscribers you are now a new tonic
Darlington Corporation was i think the only north eastern municipal that I never went on prior to deregulation; Hartlepool, Cleveland Transit and Tyne and Wear PTE i'd been on.The problem with the Darlington one was it only really ran within Darlington and all out of town routes were United mainly with some like the 722/3 (very slow!) to Newcastle via Durham City joint with Northern.I expect some private companies like TMS and OK must have gone to Darlington too but I can't remember.
Was never into rear engined buses too much. Preferring half cabs rear entrance/exits. Leyland Atlanteans were an exception. Love those engine covers with Leyland lettering, the polished wheel trims, again with lettering, The 680 diesel. Handsome or what. Makes one feel proud to be british.
Lovely AEC based design, with front slding door. North Western, based in Stockport, had a number of these in their red and cream livery, plying their trade around the Greater Manchester Area. Rochdale also had a number of AECs, some with rear entrance folding doors in their fleet, mainly cream with dark blue banding. Most of the local buses in our area were either Leyland or Daimler, with some older Crossleys (made in Manchester) still running until the late 60s, by then they were almost 20 years old. The bus shown here was quite long and had a seating capacity of just over 70, not much less than the rear engined buses which replaced them.
Many thanks for your nice comment on this video and sharing your memories and knowledge with us all. Please check out my other videos on my channel and hop aboard the drivers seat on this bus and take a ride and listen to the engine ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-33XtCtnmHH0.html
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