Tag: Leeds City Transport
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Leeds City Transport
Last week I found an album of old photos on a mart stall at Todmorden. Very interesting find.Here are a few shots of some Leeds City Transport vehicles, there is no markings claiming copyright. Roy Dodsworth11/2015 Registration MNW 720 fleet number 720 was a 1949 Crossley DD42/7 with Crossley H30/26R bodywork. Registration XUM 860 fleet…
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Why I Became a Bus Enthusiast or “Buses Galore on Route 54” Part 3
To read Part 2 Click here or Part 1 Click here Until recently, the Corn Exchange was the terminal point for West Riding’s unusual centre-entrance AEC Regent IIIs running over what was once their tram route all the way from there to Rothwell, Wakefield and Sandal until 1932. Buses serving these former tram routes had…
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Why I Became a Bus Enthusiast or “Buses Galore on Route 54” Part 2
Not read Part 1 Click here As we got nearer to the city centre, at Wellington Bridge, we joined Tong Road. Here we saw further Leeds buses, mainly on the former tram routes from Whingate and New Inn, using a mix of Roe or Weymann-bodied AECs and Leylands, as well as routes 42 and 66…
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Why I Became a Bus Enthusiast or “Buses Galore on Route 54” Part 1
In the 1950s, use of public transport was a daily experience for most people. As a child, I obviously used the buses, trams and trains in my area for school and leisure, but to understand why this daily use converted into enthusiasm is not easy to answer. However, I’m convinced that a major factor in…
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Right on the Button
Now back in nineteen seventy, when I was ne’r but twentyI had call for swift employment, as was bestLeaving College prematurely, it was only proper surelyAs my love life had given birth to an extra quest With wife and baby on the way, food, clothes and rent to have to payResponsibilities quickly piled upon my…
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Leeds City Transport – Leyland Titan – 5221 NW – 221
Copyright Chris Hough Leeds City Transport1958Leyland Titan PD3/5Roe H38/32R This handsome Leyland Titan PD3/5 was the Roe exhibit at the 1958 Earls Court Show It was one of 70 bought by Leeds for tramway replacement The batch were used extensively on the Moortown – Middleton group of former tram routes and most of them lasted…
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Leeds City Transport – Leyland Titan PD2/1 – NNW 380 – 380
Leeds City Transport1950Leyland Titan PD2/1Leyland H30/26R This Leeds City Transport bus is at the Rivelin Dams, Norfolk Arms terminus of Sheffield service 54 whilst on a tour of Sheffield routes on 19th June 1966 organised by The Leeds and District Transport News (still in production today as Metro Transport News). Sheffield 545 which appeared on…
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Leeds City Transport – Leyland Titan PD2/1 – NNW 379 – 379
Copyright Chris Hough Leeds City Transport1950Leyland Titan PD2/1Leyland H30/26R This batch of sixty Leyland bodied Leyland Titans were delivered to Leeds in 1949-1950. Most of the batch were allocated to the Bramley depot for most of their careers providing most of the duties on the 54, 77 and 23 services as well as the Bramley…
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Leeds City Transport – Leeds Titan – UUA 207 – 207
Leeds City Transport1955Leeds Titan PD2/11Roe H33/25R This looks like a typical view from Yorkshire but these Leeds City Transport buses are interloping in Lancashire. Taken around 1970 the two Leyland Titans are seen in Rochdale climbing up from Sudden on Manchester Road heading for the town centre. The occasion was the Trans Pennine Rally from…
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Leeds City Transport – Daimler Fleetline – 101 LNW – 101
Leeds City Transport (West Yorkshire PTE)1964Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXRoe H41/29F In June 1978 West Yorkshire PTE transferred five Fleetlines 101 – 105 from Leeds to Calderdale. 101 was a 1964 Commercial Vehicle Motor Show exhibit which was unique amongst the batch with a single piece curved windscreen and twin headlamps. It is shown here at Skircoat…