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N363LPN one of a few Volvo Olympians to recently find a new home as farm staff transport in Cambridgeshire. Some vehicles on other farms never move off the internal site including sister vehicles to this but this company uses them all over Eastern England on public roads to various locations to transport workers as required.
Alpine Travel Leyland Olympians A148 FPG and B155 TRN are parked side by side in Rhyl depot. The former has the less common Roe bodywork while the latter has the more prevalent ECW bodywork. They originated with London Country and Ribble respectively.
One of the second batch of Volvo Olympian Alexander Royales for Lothian Buses. Sixty seven vehicles (delivered in two batches) in total were introduced during 1996 and '97, with the 251-285 fleet bowing out in August 2009. This would also be the end of dual door operation (until 2019), madder red and white, and traditional red leatherette settees with chrome handle bars.
By the end of the first decade of the 21st century digital photography was hitting a boom, and this fleet group of buses is arguably one of the most photographed in Edinburgh.
A mouth watering scene here, with Alexander Dennis Olympian 'Royale' number 274 (P274 PSX) at the top of the serpentine shaped road, connecting Howe Street with Stockbridge; South East Circus Place with Royal Circus running round in a crescent on either side. In the 1830s this was one of only two entrances to Stockbridge, the other being the Dean Bridge and note the whin-sett road surface, so typical of Edinburgh's New Town.
Nice to see the Day Ticket banner at £3 and given this photograph was taken in 2009 it is interesting to note how little the price has increased in twelve years. Sunshine on Leith was hugely popular at the time, but I like best of all here the wooden slip / tram board on the front, indicating that this bus is going via the new Scottish Gas building at West Granton.
If you would like to see all of Lothian's Olympian Royales click here for the numerical tour of 401 to 433 and 251 to 285.
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Recently arrived with Diamond Coaches is Volvo Olympian R562DRP seen parked up at the coach park in Central Milton Keynes between workings of the monthly 297 from Raunds, 20th June.
A nice surprise change to the usual Olympian used
Stagecoach Cumberland 1022, an Alexander bodied Leyland Olympian with LakesLink branding climbs out of Keswick on 10 January 1999 on the 555.
Leyland Olympian PLZ 2876 started life with Eastern National acquired by Aldis of Framlingham.Appears to be working for Venturer Coachways.
16696 with Ray Ramsey driving heads out of Town on London Rd with the duplicate X7 which it worked from Northampton-MK and return...17037 follows on a service 10...Aug 20 2016.
Sussex Homeless Support Leyland Olympian H552 GKX has been joined in Brighton by ex Stagecoach Volvo Olympian R752 DRJ, until recently found in Portsmouth, seen in early morning sunshine 17th January, 2019.
Something a little different as 16696 (R696 DNH) is photographed at Westbridge, Northampton as it returns to the town centre on route 50. 17th March 2016
Back in 1990, The privatised PMT Ltd, took delivery of ten Cummins L10 engined Leyland Olympians. Seven of the ten were to 'coach' specification and intended primarily, to operate the flagship Hanley to Crewe route. Their performance and high top speed also rendered them a good choice for private hire and on motorways, they were capable of the speed limit.
Eventually their time came for withdrawal as their final purpose, a multi-bus school contract in Sandbach, came to an end with 'independent' operators winning the tenders. The final Olympian on PMT's books was G755 XRE as 759 had escaped into preservation twelve months beforehand. 759's new owner was an enthusiastic First driver who also owned a pair of ex PMT Bristol REs. To help out a friend, he also drove occasionally for a local dance troupe and when they needed another bus, G597 filled the bill with a good seating capacity and a top speed which enabled distances to be covered with ease. The troupe leaders were sympathetic towards the enthusiast leanings of their driver and allowed the bus (after some re-panelling at RBW) to be painted to his specifications. The bus duly re-appeared from the paintshop wearing a ficticious, but very passible NBC style scheme and with the troup's name in NBC style with the double N logo.
Time came when the troupe wanted to up-date their bus and so they purchased (very favourably) an ex Stagecoach Volvo Olympian. The ex PMT 'decker then passed back to the ownership of the driver. He next decided that he didn't need three buses and so sold 759 again, this time it went on rather a long trip, ending up on sightseeing work in California ... but still in NBC 'Poppy Red'.
The firstgroup sell offs & olympics have been good news for older vehicles within the fleet nationwide as old buses are kept a little longer than normal. Here K628LAE which spent many years in Bristol has come to Dorset for its twylight years but still looks well for its age as it climbs up towards Portland with Weymouth in the distance during May 2012. These vehicles were well look after in Bristol, and can now be found across the fg empire.
Looking back ten years and Service 15 was for the most part served by Alexander Olympian Royale buses and, until August '09, tourists would take this service to the legendary Roslin Chapel in Midlothian.
Here's 270 (P270 PSX) approaching the alighting point for the chapel and note the flower basket to welcome visitors to the area.
From the time Roslin Chapel began to be constructed in the 1440's it would have been reached mostly by foot, sometimes on horseback, in a more leisurely pilgrimage, often over rough tracks or rutted roads and, despite the king's rule of law, often in danger of ambush from thieves or predatory wild animals.
In the eighteenth century the well-to-do would have travelled to Roslin by carriage and in the 21st century the public person can catch a 15 every half an hour from the centre of the Edinburgh toon and experience the joy of Roslin village and chapel on a daily occurrence.
This Olympian was substituting for a Routemaster. Oct 2003. A bit over 2 years later the 159 would be TfLs last mainstream Routemaster and crew-operated service.
Volvo Olympian
SBS Transit, Singapore
SBS Transit's last Volvo Olympian bus is retiring this month to the end of its 17-year statutory lifespan. The retirement of all Volvo Olympian buses marks the end of an era of high-floor double-deck buses and brings SBS Transit a step closer to a full fleet of wheelchair-accessible buses.
All SBS Transit Volvo Olympian buses have their fuel gauges disabled for reasons unknown.
Find out more about the Volvo Olympian at:
The tadRed Step Entrance Bus Running Day, organised by Mortons Travel, took place on Saturday 31st December 2016 and utilised around 13 buses of varying ages on a number of routes running into Reading marking the end of step entrance buses in normal service in the UK.
Buses used included former Preston Bus Leyland Olympian J107KCW seen here about to cross the Reading-Basingstoke railway line between Grazeley and Mortimer when operating the TR1 Reading to Mortimer service.
A random photo taken in Llandudno Junction showing Alpine Travel Leyland Olympian EWX 531Y on Bws Coleg 410 to Coleg Llandrillo passing ex Crosville sister A149 UDM and another ECW bodied example in the distance.
The chance appearance of a firey orb in the sky and the need to pull 3253 out to do some clearing up around the shed presented this opportunity for a phot.
The remaining panels for the offside are ready to go on, thanks to finding a filler flap to restore the auto lube filler to as-built condition. New old stock. It's painted orange and hasn't been on a bus yet.
The end of the road for former Cumberland Leyland Olympian K128 DAO seen here in a breakers yard in Shoreham , Sussex. Formerly with Sussex Coaches.
J976PRW was a demonstrator when new, spending time at Yorkshire Rider Bradford. After its long life at Preston, it now finds itself back in West Yorkshire again with a brewery near Keighley as a non pcv.
K888ELR one of the many capital citybus Olympians to survive from the "lucky" batch. Initally in Plymouth as a playbus it is now to be found in Liverpool changed from blue to red.
Now owned by one of the fitters it is superbly fitted out as a mobile home. Still to be repainted - depot yard - 13/9/2020
Andrews of Foxton have repainted 2 of the 3 Volvo Olympians they operate. P348ROO is seen here with its fresh coat of paint near Barrington about to start its morning school run.
This left-hand drive Leyland Olympian was built as an American demonstrator in 1985. No other examples were produced and it was eventually sold to Brampton Transit. In 2012, it was picked up by Double Deck Tours in Niagara Falls. The bus returned to the GTA, minus the roof, with City Sightseeing Toronto in 2016.
The arrival of the long Panthers has seen off the final Olympian in the C&T fleet, leaving it without a double-decker for the first time since 1982, when the inevitable DMS arrived. This was the final one in fleet livery, former Arriva Olympian N706 TPK. I didn't know it at the time, but this was to be its final month in service, so it was nice to get a working shot of it on a Bodedern school contract in September 2014.
Durham was always a good place for something interesting, these 4 olympians had ended their careers with United a couple of days before the photograph was taken and had been placed at the back of the depot. They went on for further use though...L-R good friend B251NVN went to Arriva Wales ( 251 latter rejoined B45NDX at Northern Blue.) and was allocated to Bangor at least, B45NDX the unusual ELCB Olympian went to Northern Blue in Lancashire, CUB68Y went North doing the arriva rounds and ended up with Arriva Scotland, AEF227Y latterly found a home with Heyfordian. If buses could talk !
Ex Dublin Bus Volvo Olympian/Alexander(Belfast) RV623 is seen looking abandoned at a industrial unit in Blessington County Wicklow, its last owner was Movies on the Move and it was used as a support vehicle for the Film Industry
This left-hand drive bus was in use in Gibraltar in March 2001. I believe it originally worked in Baghdad. This is the Town terminus.
Perhaps an indication of why the transfer of these two olympians back to Harrogate is quite unbelievable. B251NVN on the "united" working of the 36 into Leeds. Its now no less than Transdev Harrogate`s No 125 via a round about way but this was 18 years ago in April 1995. Remember before mobiles, facebook and foreign ownership of bus companies ? Olympians did drop onto this service but preferred choice for many years was the national, bristol VR and then Leyland Tiger in the final days. It maybe just me but i like wipers together in the middle...if i was driving this it would feel like i had an itch with them left like this.
Service 9, Blackrod - Manchester and 7, Egerton - Manchester, were new routes introduced at
de-regulation, neither lasted particularly long.
Olympian 3254 is seen speeding away from the city.
In 1981, Leyland Bus sent this longer-then-ever-wheelbase Olympian special to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia. It was over 12 metres long and the basically standard ECW body had flat windscreens, fully opening windows, the USA spec hinged escape windows and a roof mounted exhaust. Sadly, no orders followed. Does anyone know what happened to this bus?