Tag: North Western
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North Western – Leyland Titan PD2 – KDB 666 – 666
North Western Road Car Co1956Leyland Titan PD2/21Weymann L30/28RD Until the arrival of ten of these in the North Western fleet in 1956, previous examples of the Leyland PD2 had featured traditional exposed radiators and bodywork by either Leyland themselves, or by Weymann, who had supplied six lightweight but otherwise classically styled bodies in 1953. This…
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North Western – Leyland Leopard PSU3/3RT – VDB 913 – 913
North Western Road Car 1962Leyland Leopard PSU3/3RTAlexander DP49F This bus was one of the first batch of 36 foot vehicles that North Western acquired. Seen here with LDB 787 fleet number 787 a 1960 Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1/1 with a Willowbrook duel purpose 43 seat body at the Shay football ground Halifax (I don’t think Halifax…
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North Western – Leyland Tiger Cub – LDB 709 – 709
Copyright John Smith North Western Road Car1957Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1/2TBurlingham C41F Awhile ago the above photo was sent to me with the following comment. I wondered if this picture of a North Western coach taken on the A5085 Blackpool Road, Lea, Preston heading towards/away from Blackpool (see comments) would interest you? My dad (Jack Smith)…
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North Western – Leyland Tiger Cub – FDB 586 – 586A
Stephen Howarth collection North Western Road Car Co1955Leyland Tiger Cub PCUC1/1Weymann B44F FDB 586 a Leyland Tiger Cub was new to North Western RCC in 1955.It was converted, along with the rest of the batch to OMO in 1958/9, as denoted by the ‘A’ suffix after the fleet number.586 is shown here (in rather a…
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North Western – Leyland Leopard PSU3/3RT – VDB 913 – 913
North Western Road Car 1962Leyland Leopard PSU3/3RTAlexander DP49F This bus was one of the first batch of 36 foot vehicles that North Western acquired. Seen here with LDB 787 fleet number 787 a 1960 Leyland Tiger Cub PSUC1/1 with a Willowbrook dual purpose 43 seat body at the Shay football ground Halifax (I don’t think Halifax…
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North Western – Dennis Loline III – RDB 890 – 890
North Western Road Car1961Dennis Loline IIIAlexander H39/32F Not the best photographic shot in the world, taken on a very cold, misty winters day, but I think well worth showing. North Western mainly used single deckers on the X12 Manchester to Bradford route but on this day look what turned up. The radiator of the Dennis…
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North Western – Dennis Loline III – RDB 892 – 892
Copyright Roger Cox North Western Road Car1961Dennis Loline IIIAlexander H39/32F This picture, taken on a Saturday in the summer of 1966, shows Dennis Loline III No 892 of North Western turning from Commercial Street into George Street, Halifax, on its trans Pennine X12 run from Bradford to Manchester. Double deckers were often used on Saturdays…
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North Western – Dennis Loline III – RDB 873/892 – 873/892
North Western Road Car Co1962Dennis Loline IIIAlexander H39/32F Here is another picture of RDB 892 passing through Halifax en route to Manchester on another remarkably bright (for Halifax) summer day in 1966. This bus seems to have been a regular performer on the X12. The North Western Loline IIIs carried the chassis designations L3AF2B1 and…
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North Western – Daimler Fleetline – JDB 245F – 245
Copyright Ian Lynas North Western Road Car Co1967Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXAlexander H44/31F Here we have one of a batch of North Western Daimler Fleetlines with an Alexander body. According to the PSV Circle Publication PX3 Post-War Second-Hand British Buses in North America mentions that two of the batch 245 and 247, JDB 245E and JDB 247E…
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North Western – Daimler Fleetline – DDB 174C – 174
North Western Road Car Co1965Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXAlexander H44/31F DDB 174C is a Daimler Fleetline CRG6LX with Alexander H75F bodywork. She was new to North Western in 1965. The company was split in NBC days and, so far as I am aware, she became part of the SELNEC fleet, passing to GMPTE when the ‘new’ county…