Blackburn Transport 17, Blackburn, 1989
Returning to Blackburn just over a year later than the previous picture posting, this image is taken outside the town's railway station in 1989.
The bus is Blackburn Transport, Leyland Atlantean No17, which is about to pull off the bus stop, the driver watching his review mirror. The vehicle shows no destination but displays service 150, so I've no idea where it was going. No17 ended it's days serving independents Lloyds of Bagilt and later Phillips of Holyhead, both operators being based in North Wales.
Amidst the contemporary traffic are two Blackburn MCW 'Metrorider' minibuses which from memory were the longer versions of the type. As with all Metroriders of the period, these buses must have eventually suffered terribly with corrosion to the framework, sealing the fate of most Metroriders. Today, very few MCW built Metroriders survive, and probably not many Optare built ones either.
In the backdrop is The Boulevard public house, which is no longer a pub looking on GSV.
15th April 1989.
Blackburn Transport 17, Blackburn, 1989
Returning to Blackburn just over a year later than the previous picture posting, this image is taken outside the town's railway station in 1989.
The bus is Blackburn Transport, Leyland Atlantean No17, which is about to pull off the bus stop, the driver watching his review mirror. The vehicle shows no destination but displays service 150, so I've no idea where it was going. No17 ended it's days serving independents Lloyds of Bagilt and later Phillips of Holyhead, both operators being based in North Wales.
Amidst the contemporary traffic are two Blackburn MCW 'Metrorider' minibuses which from memory were the longer versions of the type. As with all Metroriders of the period, these buses must have eventually suffered terribly with corrosion to the framework, sealing the fate of most Metroriders. Today, very few MCW built Metroriders survive, and probably not many Optare built ones either.
In the backdrop is The Boulevard public house, which is no longer a pub looking on GSV.
15th April 1989.