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BN68XPT AT GOATHLAND
Today the weather forecast was good and so we rode up from Pickering to spend time at Goathland.
When we were ready to return to Pickering in mid-afternoon and finding that there was half an hour until the next southbound Yorkshire Coastliner bus was due, we decided to walk from the village centre out to the Mallyan Spout Hotel at the west end of the village and catch the bus there.
Coastliner's Volvo B5TL's are the longer version of the model. I reckon they are really stylish. Being longer than YCL's earlier Volvo B7TL's and B9TL's, they have to adopt a different tactic when turning at the west end of Goathland.
The shorter ones could approach and slowly make a u-turn with the steering on full lock, without running out of tarmac whilst so doing.
The B5TL's cannot do this - they have to do a three-point turn.
Not thought of in advance, I realised that I could make this view as the bus turned before retracing the road it had arrived on, and stopping to pick us up. The broadside view shows off its length to good effect.
BN68XPT had gone past us and approached the roundabout and turned to its right; it is now reversing into the other road as an arriving car waits for it to complete its manoeuvre; it will then come towards Sylvia and me (waiting at the stop with hand out!)
BN68XPT AT GOATHLAND
Today the weather forecast was good and so we rode up from Pickering to spend time at Goathland.
When we were ready to return to Pickering in mid-afternoon and finding that there was half an hour until the next southbound Yorkshire Coastliner bus was due, we decided to walk from the village centre out to the Mallyan Spout Hotel at the west end of the village and catch the bus there.
Coastliner's Volvo B5TL's are the longer version of the model. I reckon they are really stylish. Being longer than YCL's earlier Volvo B7TL's and B9TL's, they have to adopt a different tactic when turning at the west end of Goathland.
The shorter ones could approach and slowly make a u-turn with the steering on full lock, without running out of tarmac whilst so doing.
The B5TL's cannot do this - they have to do a three-point turn.
Not thought of in advance, I realised that I could make this view as the bus turned before retracing the road it had arrived on, and stopping to pick us up. The broadside view shows off its length to good effect.
BN68XPT had gone past us and approached the roundabout and turned to its right; it is now reversing into the other road as an arriving car waits for it to complete its manoeuvre; it will then come towards Sylvia and me (waiting at the stop with hand out!)