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Friday, 23 November 2012

Twelve Minutes at Tesco

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Classic Bus North West Volvo B10M 899 passes Mereside turning circle on its way to Tesco on route 22 Olympian 324 departs for Cleveley...

News Update

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417 departed for scrap today - the last of the ECW bodied Olympians following 410 which departed on 20th. Both have gone to Partons, Barnsle...

Exit 270, Enter 1064

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The old and the older. Metrorider 1064 and its predecessor Atlantean 270 Blackpool Transport's final Metrorider 512 (S512LHG) was d...
Monday, 19 November 2012

J-Plates for DAFs

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The first four of the second batch of ex Bus Vannin DAFs - 364-7 have been registered as J70BTS, J90BTS, J200/300BTS resp. They are likely t...
Tuesday, 13 November 2012

Repaints Roll On

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Following on from 242, 278 and 302 last month, November has seen Excel 212 and Solo 241 receive the new livery. Currently 215 and 260 are un...
Thursday, 25 October 2012

More DAFs, More Disposals

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367 has become the fourth of the second batch of DAFs to arrive (on 23 October). 365 has received the registration from Olympian 365 (UWW5X)...
Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Classic Bus Update

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"Catch 22" - a commercial half hourly service from Cleveleys to Mereside commenced in September, mainly worked by four Dennis Dart...

Solos Retired and Olympians doomed

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It seems that plans for the Golf advertising Olympians to be used as static hoardings around the country has fallen through as 405 departed ...
Saturday, 6 October 2012

Last local Leylands

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373, two hours into its last service duty on Bispham Road working the 1100 Cleveleys to Blackpool route 9. Today has seen the withdrawal...
Friday, 5 October 2012

And then there was one

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372 was taken out of service this morning after a school duty leaving 373 as the sole operational Leyland Olympian. It is expected to operat...
Thursday, 4 October 2012

DAFs in, Olympians out

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DAFs 360/2 entered service yesterday (Wednesday 3rd October) followed by 359 and 363 today. Olympians 369/371 have been withdrawn this morni...
Thursday, 27 September 2012

Brief Round Up

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The first two of the second batch of DAFs have now arrived as 364/5 ex Bus Vannin 54 and 81. Sister bus 56 is now at Blackburn for refurbish...
Saturday, 8 September 2012

DAF and Olympian Update

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Olympian 368 has become the second of the new to Blackpool Olympians to be withdrawn joining 370- and the first bus in the new livery to be ...
Wednesday, 5 September 2012

DAFs emerge

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After a lengthy gestation, the first DAFs entered service today with 355-357 used on school duties. Olympians have continued in use in early...
Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Indian Summer for Olympians

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Volvo Olympian 374 contrasts with tram 016 on Bold Street, Fleetwood (both Tony Caddick)  August has seen extensive Olympian use with th...