Ian Fuller2006
Holidays soon...
When I posted my last few pics of French buses, I fully intended to scan and post a load more and give a sort of guide to the classic French bus. Well, since then a few other projects, along with work, have got in the way and I've scanned no more...
Still, with summer now approaching thoughts turn to holidays and a return across the channel. Hopefully they're not too anti-Brit after recent events.
This year, unusually for us, we're going back to a previously visited location. In fact we'll be staying precisely where we did last year, a few miles outside the picturesque port town of La Rochelle.
Seems like a good opportunity to post some pics of La Rochelle buses then. I first visited the town in 1987, then again in 1998. The local bus fleet is pretty modern, and indeed in 2015 all the buses that had been in the fleet in 1998 had since been replaced.
Most of the buses are operated by municipal operator RTCR, which some years ago re-branded itself as Yelo, with a new, er... yellow livery. Older members of the fleet retained the old RTCR green and white livery.
Here, 2011-built Heuliez GX327 no. 567 departs the central bus terminal at Place de Verdun.
Holidays soon...
When I posted my last few pics of French buses, I fully intended to scan and post a load more and give a sort of guide to the classic French bus. Well, since then a few other projects, along with work, have got in the way and I've scanned no more...
Still, with summer now approaching thoughts turn to holidays and a return across the channel. Hopefully they're not too anti-Brit after recent events.
This year, unusually for us, we're going back to a previously visited location. In fact we'll be staying precisely where we did last year, a few miles outside the picturesque port town of La Rochelle.
Seems like a good opportunity to post some pics of La Rochelle buses then. I first visited the town in 1987, then again in 1998. The local bus fleet is pretty modern, and indeed in 2015 all the buses that had been in the fleet in 1998 had since been replaced.
Most of the buses are operated by municipal operator RTCR, which some years ago re-branded itself as Yelo, with a new, er... yellow livery. Older members of the fleet retained the old RTCR green and white livery.
Here, 2011-built Heuliez GX327 no. 567 departs the central bus terminal at Place de Verdun.