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    Flixbus Discussion

    This is on another website: https://www.oxford-chiltern-bus-page.co.uk/Pictures%20161/McGills/Night%20Drivers%20advert%20Jun%2021.jpg Is that genuine? The suggestion is McGills is about to become a Flixbus contractor?
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    Strangest bus journey you've ever taken

    This is going back 15-odd years I reckon. The buses in question were First Glasgow rather that Stagecoach but... X8 old Pollok Centre to Glasgow... I board and there's a group of passesngers at the front and a group at the back... I settle in the middle. We hit the M77 Glasgow-bound and as...
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    Memories of school bus travel

    I was thinking of starting a similar thread. Now I am work from home I see the school buses here pass me every day... the usual collection of 15-year-old buses and coaches living out their later years before the scrap yard doing SPT school contracts, but for a period the young ones of...
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    McGill's Buses - Renfrewshire & Inverclyde

    For those of you who like a novelty working, the 547 service today that passes me (Greenock - Gourock - Lunderston Bay/Cardwell Garden Centre) is being run by open-topper G6906 even though the tracker says it is G6014. Nice to see... 547 is a nice touristy route so suits the open top approach...
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    TRIVIA: What is the bus that sums up your childhood?

    Being a child of the county of Angus it has to be Northern/Strathtay Y-types with the occassional National 2 or ECW Olympian or Duple Dominant thrown into the mix. I have a vague recollection of some of the Y-types having the engines in a black box next to the driver and to get in the cab...
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    Trivia: Your favourite bus station

    The old Edinburgh St Andrew Square bus station... there was the uncovered section where Citylink/Stagecoach arrived and departed and passengers would wonder across it willy nilly getting to the ticket office (pre health and safety) and there was the dark coverred platforms where...
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    Stagecoach North Scotland (Bluebird and Highland)

    This is a vague memory from my Stagecoach days but Stagecoach set up a courier company called "Pegasus Express" that was basically parcels and packages being carried on Bluebird/Inverness Traction/Stagecoach Perth buses between points and then being delivered on from there. Pegasus Express...
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    Stagecoach Repaint Updates

    That was the idea exactly. Was supposed to be the UK with the dot being Perth. The logo appearance pre-dated my time there and was trying to take the iconic Stagecoach brand UK-wide when they bought Hampshire Bus, etc. Although sometimes I looked at it on company stuff and vehicles and...
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    Last Halfcabs (RM's excepted)

    The Lodekkas (think there were 4 in the fleet) were still doing daily morning and afternoon registered school runs in Perth when I was there in 1990/91... usually driven by office staff from HQ.
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    Time Machine Preservation Projects

    One of the original Neoplan Skyliners from early days Stagecoach... vehicles like FES 831W (first new vehicle bought) and Lodekkas and Routemasters and The Megadekka are in the Heritage Fleet, but not a single Neoplan Skyliner or Jetliner which is a shame because they were such iconic coaches at...
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    McGill's Buses - Renfrewshire & Inverclyde

    As a commuter at McInroy's I can tell you it never ever ran... given the delays at the port in the summer it would never have stood a chance sticking to that schedule. Pulling the 907 totally was a mistake. The 907 was much better than a 901 because (i) the Levante's speed limiters were set...

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