Doncaster City

[crookedspire]

Does anyone think that the buses were better run before deregulation and cheaper to use, also did Sheffield have Leyland buses?

[mikeG]

Does anyone think that the buses were better run before deregulation and cheaper to use, also did Sheffield have Leyland buses?

 

Yes there were hundreds of Leylands around - in the 50's anyway.

[darra]

Does anyone think that the buses were better run before deregulation and cheaper to use, also did Sheffield have Leyland buses?

 

Seem to remember that before regulation busses were packed most of the time and affordable to all After you could have one to yourself at times.

[TORONTONY]

Seem to remember that before regulation busses were packed most of the time and affordable to all After you could have one to yourself at times.

Buses were packed in the50's because nobody could afford a car, only the well off could.

[bracken]

Does anyone think that the buses were better run before deregulation and cheaper to use, also did Sheffield have Leyland buses?

 

....heres a couple of Leyland PD3's new in 59-60 , now preserved at SYTM Rotherham....

http://mapgrouproadtransport.co.uk/p815177403/h17C0EB2#h17c0eb2

 

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Yes there were hundreds of Leylands around - in the 50's anyway.

....and 60's ,70's 80's, 90's ! - surely we can all remember the Leyland Atlanteans through all those years !?

[grinder]

And Pond streets never been the same since we lost the SUT coaches....

Oh the joy of queuing up for that week at Blackpool .......

[bracken]

And Pond streets never been the same since we lost the SUT coaches....

Oh the joy of queuing up for that week at Blackpool .......

 

...40th Anniversary last year of takeover by National Travel (East) !

[alexander874]

....heres a couple of Leyland PD3's new in 59-60 , now preserved at SYTM Rotherham....

http://mapgrouproadtransport.co.uk/p815177403/h17C0EB2#h17c0eb2

 

---------- Post added 01-09-2015 at 18:22 ----------

 

....and 60's ,70's 80's, 90's ! - surely we can all remember the Leyland Atlanteans through all those years !?

 

1156 is a PD2 and dates from 1958

[grinder]

...40th Anniversary last year of takeover by National Travel (East) !

 

Never !!! Blimey dun it make you feel old......

[stpetre]

1156 is a PD2 and dates from 1958

 

On the side of the 'Lodge Moor' buses, the Sheffield Coat of Arms is not there, when did that practise end?

[Runningman]

Remember Sheffield bus services in the past, look at them now and think where we will be in 20 years time. FRIGHTENING for folks without cars.

[Voldy]

On the side of the 'Lodge Moor' buses, the Sheffield Coat of Arms is not there, when did that practise end?

 

In 1928 it was decided that only 'A' fleet vehicles would carry the Coat of Arms,'B' and 'C' fleets were Joint Omnibus and Railways respectively and there appears to be no change to this until Bus deregulation and the end of the Sheffield Transport era many of us remember.

 

Ref: Chas C Hall - ''Sheffield Transport'' (1977)