Route : Driver Training around Slough

📍 Cippenham Lane, Slough

Go North East's Wright Solar bodied Scania L94UB driver training bus, 4963 (NL52WVU), which carries a light blue livery with 'Join the Team' branding, is seen here on display at the company's Riverside depot open day at Gateshead, on the 25th July 2021.

Go Ahead London Alexander-Dennis Enviro 400 Trident LX57 CKV / E86, is seen on Marshall's Road, Sutton.

This was new to Go Ahead London General at Stockwell garage, and became a driver trainer vehicle in 2020 based at Camberwell

19/02/2025

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First Midland Bluebird 60198 Y344 XBN In Princes Street Edinburgh on Driver Training

Cardiff Bus Plaxton Pointer 2 / Dennis Dart SLF W161 EAX / 161, new to Cardiff Bus in 2000 and becoming a Driver Trainer in 2008. is seen on Westgate Street, Cardiff

18/02/2025

A quick visit trackside paid dividends this afternoon. Found LRVs 013 and 014 undergoing testing. And a bit of driver training as well!

10 minutes in Chalmers Street ...

I only had time for a few shots at Central (Chalmers Street) stop this morning, but it was long enough to witness some action. LRVs 015 & 016 were still running tests between Central and the Quay whilst LRVs 001 & 002 and 011 and 012 were engaged in training runs with newbie drivers. All in a morning's work

Stagecoach Volvo B10M-55 / Alexander PS reg: R971 XVM fleet: 20971 on driver training on Station Rd., Cheadle Hulme 13-10-17

Merseyside Police

Dept: Driver Training

Roof Code: 502 / MP80

Role: Protected Carrier

Make: Mercedes Sprinter

Station: Smithdown Lane

Note: Vehicle being used by Road Safety Team

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Taken a few days before the incident is this picture of a Strathclyde Police BMW 5 series of the Roads Policing Unit (RPU, “Traffic Cops”) heading westbound on Main Street, Belshotmuir as a Ford Transit Driver Training Unit (DTU) of the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) heads eastbound passing the local First Bus Depot.

In reality both are Code 3 models, with the DTU a representation of the real life SF59 LUE, one of a number of rotating vehicles which I used on my Emergency Response/Advanced Driving course based out of Motherwell Divisional HQ.

A quick visit trackside paid dividends this afternoon. Found LRVs 013 and 014 undergoing testing. And a bit of driver training as well!

South Western Railway 442404 & 442414 with the 5Q42 STP 16:50 Fratton C.S.D. to Fratton C.S.D. driver training service at Fareham on the 6th November 2018. The 442's are due to start service in December running along the Portsmouth Direct Line.

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on Driver training duties

You can't do any good at any emergency, if you don't get there safely.

Thanks to this demonstration vehicle on loan from Ford, FDMB Fire-Medics and Chiefs can run through the cone course over and over without putting wear and tear on their precious PI Utilities.

Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II

Olympus M.14-42mm F3.5-5.6 II R

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Merseyside Fire & Rescue Service

Station: Croxteth - TDA

Callsign: N/A

Role: Water Ladder - Driver Training

Make: Scania 94D Excalibur

Sydney light rail - Bus driver training at Kingsford.

During a quick trip to the end of the line today I caught up with some bus driver training. So I took pictures of buses for a change!

Preserved Mainline 605, Volvo Alexander PS seen on display at the Olive Grove depot open day 16th September 2018.

5Z04 1327 Saltburn to Newcastle training run

Newly delivered to Bramley depot after repaint at Bolton Garage is TV60638.

BUT9611T - Roe H56R

New to this Operator during December-1949 .

Now relegated to Driver Training duties , EKU745 negotiates a Roundabout in Bradford City Centre , Wedt Yorkshire.

April-1971.

13th March 2019., Near Dublin Airport, Irealnd

Close up of Detsroyer Stabled at Scarborough (2019) on Driver training duties.

Scania CN94UB - Scania B42F

New to Nottingham City Transport ( 855 ) during September-2004 . Joining this in February-2020 . Now by Stephensons of Essex , as a training bus .

Presumably A17SOE is working out of Stephenson's Mendlesham outstation . Because is running along St Margaret's Plain in Ipswich Town Centre , Suffolk .

Wednesday morning 21st-August-2024 .

Any employee of the Bristol Omnibus Co. was entitled to a try-out at the Company's driving school, irrespective of previous experience. My previous experience amounted to precisely none. I had last ventured onto the roads at the age of 12 in control of a bicycle. Even then, I'm not sure that the word "control" precisely describes my method. I just rode where I liked when I felt like it and expected everyone else to defer to me. The same method may still be seen in use today among cyclists who don't have the excuse of being children. But cycling wasn't really for me; it was far too energetic, and I disliked riding into a strong wind ...one so felt like turning around and going back the other way.

Actually the Company had approached me, not the other way around. I had been a conductor for six years, but now one-man operation was coming in and the Company was eager to train conductors as drivers. I thought it would be an amusing lark, an agreeable break from routine and a good skive. It was quite a shock to find myself, two weeks later, in the cab of a bus ...nothing like the ones I'd trained on... going out to pick up my first cargo of humanity. This was in the mid 1970s, when everything was inefficient and most people had to work their way up a six month waiting list to take their driving tests.

In after years I did sometimes wonder about the wisdom of giving people PSV licences after two weeks' experience of driving and roadcraft. After a couple of narrow squeaks, which still have the power to make me break out in a muck sweat when I think of them, I learned that cockiness was not an option. I'd say it took me a year to feel thoroughly confident.

This was the vehicle on which I passed my test. It was a Gardner-engined Bristol LD-type Lodekka new in 1959. It had originally belonged to the "country" fleet, which meant that it had Bristol's labyrinthine 5-speed "crash" gearbox with its three neutral positions and no way out of 5th except back through 4th ...a ticklish business for a novice driver. Some of the training buses then in use were painted in a livery of cream with orange lettering and "lining out", but a new General Manager had recently been appointed. He had come from the Eastern National company and introduced a number of Eastern National practices, including this colour-scheme for training vehicles. Friday 27th August 1976.

Stagecoach Volvo B10M-55 / Plaxton Paladin reg: R653 HCD fleet: 20653 on driver training on Duke St., Stockport 6-6-14

Classic Rotterdam tram modified for driver training only. The 2101 (ex 404) had controls from different types of tram on each end. © Henk Graalman 6828 (1969)