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Just wandering back to the car after my ride on the Nottingham Eye. Not a lot of lights in town this year!
Nottingham tram 222 seen approaching Wilford Village shortly after going over Wilford Toll bridge 23/9/21.
Over 76,000 people attended the 1989 League Cup Final at Wembley in April 1989 where fans saw Nottingham Forest beat Luton Town 3-1.
Seen in the coach park that day was Nottingham Leyland Tiger / Duple 320 792 F792JTV.
Nottingham City Transport bought two small batches of the underfloor-engined Leyland Lion double-decker during its brief production, taking ten examples of the 32 supplied to British customers. From the second tranche, East Lancs-bodied 389 (F389KVO) is seen entering Old Market Place, passing the characterful Bell Inn - a place of frequent pilgrimage in my Nottingham visits. These were the final buses delivered to Nottingham’s own bodywork specification: subsequent vehicle orders were to off-the-peg designs.
One must rue the near-stillborn nature of the Leyland Lion. It had the potential to be a market contender, gaining a niche as did its direct competitor, the Volvo B10M Citybus. Leyland Bus fell victim to two factors, however: firstly, the impact of the 1985 Transport Act all but stifled the market for new full-size vehicles, a result of the big bus market being flooded by nearly-new vehicles made redundant as the old Passenger Transport Executives were forced to contract. Secondly, Leyland Bus was chronically under-capitalised after it had been bought by its management in the break-up of the British Leyland empire. In such dire circumstances, Leyland Bus fell into the hands of Volvo, which wasted no time in whittling down the Leyland model range.
September 1990
Rollei 35 camera
Kodak Ektachrome 100 film.
Pryzm, Nottingham. Pryzm (Palais de danse), Nottingham was opened in 1925 and designed by noted cinema architect Alfred John Thraves with Henry Hardwick Dawson, as the Palais de Danse. Later known as the Ritzy, Oceana and currently Pryzm.
City of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England - Pryzm, Lower Parliament Street
April 2023
Nottingham Railway Station is a major railway station in the city. It is located in the city centre and serves as a hub for both local and national train services. The station was first opened in 1848 and has undergone several renovations and expansions over the years. It currently has six platforms and serves over 8 million passengers annually.
... looking towards the tram stop at The Forest Recreation Ground.
Earlier in the evening, I looked online in the app: "Clear Outside", for the amount of cloud cover for that evening. No cloud at all was forecast. :-)
A good amount of high cloud is said to give you the best sunset photos, which you can look for on "Clear Outside".
Mark Denney talks about the 5 simple apps he uses in this YouTube video, which includes "Clear Outside" ...
I think this is the last remaining Nottingham 'standard' Trident, seen here on route 34.
21st November 2014, Nottingham.
Tuesday, 22 October 2019
43423 after arriving at Nottingham with the 0934 ex London St Pancras.
© Finbarr O'Neill
Among the uploads I recently did featuring Yourbus photos taken in the mid-2010s, one of the pictures had the Nottingham Coaches 17 in the background. Given the oddity THAT operation was, I figured I’d re-upload the few photos I got of it with marginally better editing than my 2015 attempts. I only saw the thing 2 or 3 times, and the photos I got weren’t that bad to begin with, so there wasn’t much of an improvement to be made besides some less severe cropping.
Thanks to my general ignorance at the time, I didn’t keep much track of what changes were being made to the local buses and so the story of the 17 (and so many other things like the Yourbus operations) is just what I can piece together retrospectively. Luckily, timetables are still available online 9 years later through an outdated Stapleford community news website, and a handy route map of the 17’s later incarnation. The version of the 17 into Beeston was launched in December 2014 (after Chilwell Road reopened) and only lasted until summer 2015. “Following changes to where we can stop in Beeston Town Centre we will be altering our Service 17” is the quote on the web page, so possibly Nottingham Coaches weren’t able to secure stand space for the opening of the new Beeston Interchange.
The Route:
So what was the 17, anyway? Well, if you look further down this upload you’ll see the 17 was previously a Nottinghamshire County Council contract route that ran from Beeston to Stapleford via Attenborough and Toton, run by Premiere travel. Premiere collapsed and I’m not sure what happened after that, but considering the route is basically the Nottsbus 510 with small changes I’d be willing to bet the County Council just took the operation in-house and renumbered it.
Nottingham Coaches is essentially Premiere mk2 – the red livery and some coaches being emblazoned with PREMIERE being the clue – and they decided to revive the 17, with alterations, as a commercial route. The core Beeston – Toton – Stapleford section remained (but cut out Attenborough as far as I can tell), and was extended to Beeston Dennis Avenue at one end, and through Sandiacre down to Long Eaton at the other end.
From June 2015 it morphed into a circular affair linking Long Eaton to the NET tram terminus at Toton Lane, totally cutting out the Beeston section. At some point the circular 17 faded away, which on reflection isn’t surprising since all the links it made could be done via other bus routes. All the 17 really did was make direct connections between places that would otherwise need a change, such as Beeston to Sandiacre, or Long Eaton to Toton Lane (and reasonably why would Long Eaton folk catch the 17 and then tram when they could directly access tram destinations on the indigo?)
The Buses:
The only vehicles I ever saw on the 17 were ex-Go North East X-reg Super Pointer Darts X227 FBB and X232 FBB, plus X224 FBB which I once photted with the 17 slip board but not actually on the route itself. As far as I know, no other buses besides the X-FBB Darts were used on the 17. When I took these photos in February it was quite obvious where the Northern names had been peeled off 227, and it was grubby as anything. 232 looked even worse with select bits of GNE lettering left over because the bare minimum had been removed.
Although it was Nottingham Coaches running the service, they called themselves Nottingham Buses for their local bus work and that name stuck around on a few subsequent buses they bought – the name might still be around today but it’s been a couple of years since I last saw anything of Nottingham Coaches. Their colours have moved over to mostly green and white, but around 2015/16/17 time they were definitely still going for Premiere red. The Darts came in red anyway though could have perhaps done with a fresh coat just to get rid of the GNE branding residue.
One amusing factor of them using Dennis Darts on the route was that, when they ran to Beeston, the destination was Dennis (Dart) Avenue. I distinctly remember a photo of one appearing in a bus magazine highlighting the fact, and in the following month’s issue someone had found a corresponding Dart road name to go with it.
Taken 13.2.15
Uploaded 11.8.24
The timetable web page:
www.staplefordcommunitygroup.org.uk/2014/11/08/new-17-bus...
Nottingham City Transport: 474 (NNN 474W) a Roe bodied Leyland Atlantean AN68C/1R, painted in green and cream fleet livery and captured here in Nottingham operating on service 65 to Carlton.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 17th April 1985.
Ref No: PICT00129/CL.
D7500 pictured passing through Nottingham Midland sometime during 1960's.
This Pic is part of a collection from the 1960's & 1970's. They are all prints of various sizes with some colour and some black & white with almost half having written details on the rear.
The photographs were purchased as a set some time ago and after spending some time cleaning the images up I now feel it is time to show them and not let the collection just hide away.
Photographer Unknown.
Nottingham Theatre Royal. Originally opened 1865 and designed by C J Phipps. It received a major makeover from Frank Matcham in 1897, and a re-imagining of the Phipps design by RHWL in 1978. Grade 2 listed.
City of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England - Theatre Royal and Royal Complex, Theatre Square
November 2024.
Nottingham College City Hub is a modern and innovative educational facility located in the heart of Nottingham city centre. It offers a wide range of courses and qualifications for students of all ages and backgrounds, including vocational training, apprenticeships, and higher education programs. The building features state-of-the-art facilities, including a digital media suite, science labs, and a professional training restaurant. It aims to provide students with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in their chosen careers.
City of Nottingham Leyland Atlantean 442 seen prior to delivery at Northern Counties, Wigan.
Noteworthy is the GMPTE Atlantean by its side in allover white To my knowledge, it never carried an allover advertising scheme so why it was allover white remains a mystery.
Nottingham City Transport Scania N230UD Omnidekka Fleet Number 907 YT61GOP Working The 1 To East Leake