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A number of ex-Magicbus Tridents have made their way south in recent months to see off the remaining Olympians, however their use will be short lived as they are not DDA complaint so will not survive beyond the end of December 2016. This explains why they have not been repainted into fleet livery.
Still carrying the rather attractive Magicbus livery, Stagecoach South East 17635 W635 RND is seen on Front Road, Woodchurch while working route 2A. Tuesday 29th November 2016.
Dennis Trident - Alexander ALX400 (Ex-Stagecoach Manchester)
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A number of ex-Magicbus Tridents have made their way south in recent months to see off the remaining Olympians, however their use will be short lived as they are not DDA complaint so will not survive beyond the end of December 2016. This explains why they have not been repainted into fleet livery.
Still carrying the rather attractive Magicbus livery, Stagecoach East Kent 17658 V158 DFT is seen turning off of Ashford Road and into Magpie Hall Road, Kingsnorth whilst working route 2A. Friday 8th July 2016.
Dennis Trident - Alexander ALX400 (Ex-Stagecoach Manchester)
Former Stagecoach / Magic Bus 13030 is carefully manoeuvred out of the holding lot for the short journey to the breaking area at PVS's recycling yard at Carlton, S Yorks.
The Northern Counties bodied Leyland Olympian had started life in July 1984 with Greater Manchester PTE. Numbered 3030, the bus was later acquired by Stagecoach, finishing its service days on Stagecoach's Magic Bus operation in Manchester prior to its withdrawal in c2005.
The bus had been initially been saved for posterity by the SELNEC Preservation Society, who were amassing a large number of ex Manchester buses.
Along with other SELNEC PS vehicles, 3030 was stored in open-air premises at Oakenshaw. Sadly, these buses eventually attracted the wrong kind of attention, and a number of buses were vandalised. 3030 lost most of its windows as a consequence, allowing water ingress.
When SELNEC PS founder Anthony Wyer tragically passed away in 2017, much of the SELNEC PS fleet was disposed of. With mounting storage costs, and little prospect of 3030 finding a new home, the scrap man became its next owner, 3030 meeting its fait accompli in July 2017.
A30ORJ ONLXB1R H43/30F New 7/1984 GMPT - PVS 21jul2017
The Magicbus deregulation service out to Castlemilk while competing with the traditional Strathclyde services to the housing scheme went one better and went off to serve streets and areas that hadnt seen a bus service before, like Glenacre Drive, Downcraig Road and Croftfoot Drive.
Former London Routemaster RM504 heads along Croftfoot Drive on its journey back into St Enoch in 1987.
©eb2010
Do not use this image without my permission.
Twenty-five brand new Enviro 400 MMC vehicles will enter traffic at Folkestone and Hastings on the Wave group of routes on Sunday 4th December prompting a carefully orchestrated cascade the same weekend will allow the withdrawal of all non-DDA fleet members meaning the end of the use of the former Manchester Magicbus Tridents.
Approaching what could well be its final week in passenger service with Stagecoach South East, 17656 V156 DFT is seen on Station Road near Martin Mill having just turned off the A258 on the deviation via St Margarets at Cliffe whilst working route 15. Friday 25th November 2016.
Dennis Trident - Alexander ALX400 (Ex-Stagecoach Manchester - Magicbus)
Lightning Ridge near Cohocton where you can party like it's 1969. The giant windmills lining the horizon were the only clue to the decade, no cell phone reception
Explored Oct. 9, 2011
Thank you for the support my friends
Every day I get in the queue
To get on the bus that takes me to you
I'm so nervous, I just sit and smile
Your house is only another mile
Thank you, driver, for getting me here
You've been inspected, have no fear
I don't want to cause no fuss
But can I buy your Magic Bus?
"Magic Bus" - The Who
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I haven't been around much these days... and with family in town this weekend, my time on Flickr will be short.
Please bear with me, I'll try to catch up when I can!
Have a fabulous Friday!!
Bus Jack is a former Air BNB and an art installation in Terlingua Ranch in the Chihuahuan Desert of West Texas. The rare patrons could choose between sleeping in a makeshift bed in a derelict VW bus or primitive camping, either one at a price of $20 a night. This bus is one of nine VW buses in a circle on a butte in the desert. Take your pick... no bath, no toilet, with a twin size piece of foam covered with an old sheet in the back of some of the vans . When I first photographed the place six years ago, it was still listed as an Airbnb, but since then it has been vandalized and de-listed. I took these new photos in May, 2024.
Believed to be on loan to Stagecoach South Aldershot depot as cover until the re-opening of the Farnham-Alton railway line, this plain blue Alexander-bodied Volvo Olympian is seen passing through Pinewood Park in Farnborough, operating the 402 All Hallows schools service on May 3rd 2016.
P729GND gained its blue livery as part of the Magicbus operation in Manchester.
The Magicbus deregulation service 20 out to Castlemilk while competing with the traditional Strathclyde services to the housing scheme went one better and went off to serve streets and areas that hadn't seen a bus service before, like Glenacre Drive, Downcraig Road and Croftfoot Drive.
Former London Routemaster RM504 is seen on Tormusk
Road heading to Croftfoot Drive on its journey back into St Enoch in 1987.
©eb2010
Do not use this image without my permission.
Bus Jack is a former Air BNB and an art installation in Terlingua Ranch in the Chihuahuan Desert of West Texas. The rare patrons could choose between sleeping in a makeshift bed in a derelict VW bus or primitive camping, either one at a price of $20 a night. This bus is one of nine VW buses in a circle on a butte in the desert. Take your pick... no bath, no toilet, with a twin size piece of foam covered with an old sheet in the back of some of the vans. When I first photographed the place six years ago, it was still listed as an Airbnb, but since then it has been vandalized and de-listed. I took these new photos in May, 2024.
Bus Jack is a former Air BNB and an art installation in Terlingua Ranch in the Chihuahuan Desert of West Texas. The rare patrons could choose between sleeping in a makeshift bed in a derelict VW bus or primitive camping, either one at a price of $20 a night. This bus is one of nine VW buses in a circle on a butte in the desert. Take your pick... no bath, no toilet, with a twin size piece of foam covered with an old sheet in the back of some of the vans. When I first photographed the place six years ago, it was still listed as an Airbnb, but since then it has been vandalized and de-listed. I took these new photos in May, 2024.
Still wearing Magicbus colours from its time in Manchester, Stagecoach South East 17637 W637 RND which is seen here on Gardner Street, Windmill Hill whilst working route 98. Tuesday 16th August 2016.
Dennis Trident - Alexander ALX400 (Ex-Stagecoach Manchester - Magicbus)
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Yes I'm back again.
However due to my main computer on which I edit my work being struck down with a big bad virus, this picture and all the others I am uploading, were Unedited but have now been replaced with Edited versions. So enjoy and Thanks for your patience and understanding.
I do still hate everything about this shit that is new Flickr and always will, but an inability to find another outlet for my work that is as easy for me to use as the Old BETTER Flickr was, has forced me back to Flickr, even though it goes against everything I believe in.
I don't generally have an opinion on my own work, I prefer to leave that to other people and so based on the positive responses to my work from the various friends I had made on Flickr prior to the changes I have decided to upload some more of my work as an experiment and to see what happens.
So make the most of me before they delete my acount: www.flickr.com/photos/69558134@N05/?details=1, to stop me complaining!!
Stagecoach Manchester 'Magic Bus' SL63FZK 12229 seen on stand in Piccadilly Gardens displaying #TeamHydeRoad before setting up for Magic 142 to East Didsbury
Lately it occurs to me: What a long, strange trip it's been.
Near Shakedown Street
Grand Rapids, Michigan
A birds-eye view of Buchanan bus station, shows the side used by Clydeside Scottish. Magicbus were loading in the corner for their East Kilbride service, and the surface was always being repaired.
Stagecoach Manchester 'Magic Bus' Volvo B10M/Alexander PS 20935.R935XVM with a Part Route 192 at Mersey Square, Stockport on the 7th December 2007.
To be honest with this shot, I just like the tree behind the vehicle...
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Yes I'm back again.
However due to my main computer on which I edit my work being struck down with a big bad virus, this picture and all the others I am uploading, were Unedited but have now been replaced with Edited versions. So enjoy and Thanks for your patience and understanding.
I do still hate everything about this shit that is new Flickr and always will, but an inability to find another outlet for my work that is as easy for me to use as the Old BETTER Flickr was, has forced me back to Flickr, even though it goes against everything I believe in.
I don't generally have an opinion on my own work, I prefer to leave that to other people and so based on the positive responses to my work from the various friends I had made on Flickr prior to the changes I have decided to upload some more of my work as an experiment and to see what happens.
So make the most of me before they delete my acount: www.flickr.com/photos/69558134@N05/?details=1, to stop me complaining!!
And be sure to check by my other acount: www.flickr.com/photos_user.gne?path=&nsid=77145939%40..., to see what else Very Recently!
Yes I'm back again.
However due to my main computer on which I edit my work being struck down with a big bad virus, this picture and all the others I am uploading, were Unedited but have now been replaced with Edited versions. So enjoy and Thanks for your patience and understanding.
I do still hate everything about this shit that is new Flickr and always will, but an inability to find another outlet for my work that is as easy for me to use as the Old BETTER Flickr was, has forced me back to Flickr, even though it goes against everything I believe in.
I don't generally have an opinion on my own work, I prefer to leave that to other people and so based on the positive responses to my work from the various friends I had made on Flickr prior to the changes I have decided to upload some more of my work as an experiment and to see what happens.
So make the most of me before they delete my acount: www.flickr.com/photos/69558134@N05/?details=1, to stop me complaining!!
Stagecoach West Scotland 19265 (MX08 GOK), an ADL Enviro 400 was seen at Ayr Racecourse on Park & Ride shuttles for Ayrshow.
19265 was new to Stagecoach Manchester in June 2008; she was transferred to Stagecoach West Scotland with 19266 in May this year to replace 18334. 6/9/25
Stagecoach Magic Bus Dennis Trident / East Lancs Lolyne reg: V126 DJA fleet: 18286 (ex-Mayne, Clayton) in Piccadilly, Manchester 29-12-09
Stagecoach Manchester Volvo Olympian / Northern Counties 16087 - R87 XNO calls at Fallowfield working a Sunday afternoon 143 service to West Didsbury.
A notorious incident indeed befell Stagecoach Manchester 13154 (B154 XNA), when she was shamelessly pinched from Hyde Road garage and promptly went missing for around three months. She finally turned up, painted yellow and minus seats, as a promo vehicle for a skip hire company in Salford, carrying a Northern Ireland plate, RAZ 3377.
Apparently it took a court challenge for ownership to be proved and she was eventually repatriated. This shot, I think, shows her after return to work as a Magic Bus. A peaked dome is carried that wasn't in place while she was "on the run", as it were.
Manchester, Mosley Street, 24/02/2003.
A shot many people dont have is this of 15249 in full yellow Schoolbus livery. After being withdrawn from Magicbus services in Glasgow, 15247/9 were transferred down to Ayr for a recently gained School contract at the time. Both initially ran in full Magicbus livery but were latterly treated to full Schoolbus livery. IIRC They only lasted a year in this livery before being repainted, once again but for the first time into corporate livery as they were made redundant at Ayr. Ayr depot was once host to several double deckers in their fleet, now in 2011 this stands at just one Trident and 3 seasonal Titans/Olympians. 15247/9 reentered service at Cumnock Depot in August 2008, this to be their final allocation with Western. Both were withdrawn in summer 2010 as a result of several internal transfers. 15247 was lucky to have been sold on and currently resides with WJC Buses in Glasgow, 15249 was latterly not to be so succesful and was sold for scrap around the same time.