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AI-generated (not entirely realistic) buses uk images

SmerfTransport

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JUST A BIT OF FUN using Google Gemini, Google flow etc
Mine example is on Google flow Lothian country Volvo B9tl Wright Eclipse Gemini 2 on route X27 to bathgate enjoy the AI.
 

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Not entirely realistic image of the E5 Ember service passing Loch Achtriochtan in Glen Coe on route to Fort William. ;)

Bonus point if anyone can get the film connection!
 

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Not entirely realistic image of the E5 Ember service passing Loch Achtriochtan in Glen Coe on route to Fort William. ;)

Bonus point if anyone can get the film connection!
Ooh yes, The Big Bus! Which if I recall was about the worlds first nuclear powered bus!
 

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A bright bus articulated enviro 300.
 

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johnnychips

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I remember getting this from primary school to Hyde baths. It’s gone up in the world a bit.
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I like the fact that Lothian assigned the same registration plate to two buses.

To all the extent that @SmerfTransport offers a concerning future, @Ashley Hill reassures us that in 12 years from now when the 88 plate comes out new buses will still be Optare solos.

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Scary, but familiar times.
 

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Brilliant @HighlandStorm

The giveaway? It's the right-lane drving, isn't it. Everything else looks just like I remember. ;)
I was going for the anachronism of the red lines and assuming this was a historic image. There seem to be cars going in the opposite direction to the bus on both sides of the road so I assumed that the one on the right was parked because no one understood they could not park on a double red line.

There does not seem to be much else wrong.

Great find @HighlandStorm
 

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On a different thread, @Topological treated us to the delights of Bee Network's buses. Less-known, are the Swallow buses of the deprived Abercwm area.

Here, hopeful first-time buyers make use of Swallow buses' new route (and its temporary bus-stop) for the prospective regeneration and new affordable housing at Abercwm's old steelworks and iron slagheap.
 

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We can only dream of buses like that making it to Port Talbot. Those Abercwm people get all the joy.

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Sometimes this is as close as you get...
 

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Wrong turn. It's now low-season, the donkey rides and stag-parties have ended - and this sunmer's drivers all handed in their notice. Time to recruit new drivers; but it's not going at all well with their road-positioning or route-knowledge.
 

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Someone always interrupts me when I am out tagging... :lol:

Blackpool does not have a sea wall like that, but that is the only inaccuracy I can see in those excellent efforts. Great work as always @Sun Chariot

Meanwhile, back in the countryside the drivers are doing a much better job. Just behind the camera is a tractor taking a converted party trailer to it's next freshers week event. The bus has correctly moved lanes to overtake. When I took the photo I had some issues with my phone and missed the trailer. I exclaimed something stronger than "Number 2".

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It's the bracing North Sea in those ones, @Topological (or "TOPOL") ;) They're much more into riding donkey there.
For me the true donkey lashers are those from down the M55 :lol:

I think you caught the decay of Blackpool perfectly in the images. These days I cannot joke that the weather in your photos is a bit good for a British seaside. It is just not clear why the lad with the red spray paint tagged the front of the bus with a self-portrait.

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It is amazing what takes place in plain sight these days. That Portsmouth and Southsea picture certainly shows all that is wrong with society. Why can people not just overtake if the people in front are walking too slowly?

Meanwhile, the quest to finally get a MotoGP champion from the UK is receiving excellent support from an older generation who knew exactly how to overtake dawdlers.

Issues involving the wronguns can appear in the most surprising of places. In suburban Brentford, wing buses are helping turn the corner.

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