Blue Triangle, Bootle 6 (TBD 754G)
A couple of short hops on the train took me from Aintree to Bootle, where Dave Forrest's expanding Blue Triangle operation was handily based right behind Oriel Road station.
Dave's first Bristol VRT was a true oddball, one of a number converted to Series 3 specification by United Counties in their own workshops in the early 1980s. This one was rescued from certain destruction in a Barnsley scrapyard, and lost the allover white ASDA scheme which it had worn for several years, in favour of this more colourful livery. The whole roof should really have been painted red though, as it looks a bit low height when the roof is set against a while cloudy sky. But as we will see, roof painting wasn't always a strong point here ....
He got just over a year out of it, which wasn't bad in this ever-changing fleet, and it left a few months later, finally ending up in the north of Scotland in 1993.
Berry Street, Bootle, 14 April 1990
Blue Triangle, Bootle 6 (TBD 754G)
A couple of short hops on the train took me from Aintree to Bootle, where Dave Forrest's expanding Blue Triangle operation was handily based right behind Oriel Road station.
Dave's first Bristol VRT was a true oddball, one of a number converted to Series 3 specification by United Counties in their own workshops in the early 1980s. This one was rescued from certain destruction in a Barnsley scrapyard, and lost the allover white ASDA scheme which it had worn for several years, in favour of this more colourful livery. The whole roof should really have been painted red though, as it looks a bit low height when the roof is set against a while cloudy sky. But as we will see, roof painting wasn't always a strong point here ....
He got just over a year out of it, which wasn't bad in this ever-changing fleet, and it left a few months later, finally ending up in the north of Scotland in 1993.
Berry Street, Bootle, 14 April 1990