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PostPosted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 1:17 am 
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I've just found a pic which answers a question I had about York's lighting: What came before the Z8600's. Answer: Revo Horizons
http://tony3972.mysnaps.org.uk/p12251655.html

I had a hunch this may have been the case, as the development of the Hungate area has seen the former homeless people centre flattened and has shown off a previously tucked away column with a Horizon on the bracket (S&L column) and a shovelflood attached.

This is Bootham, and it looks like a Horizon again
http://tony3972.mysnaps.org.uk/p12251651.html

this pic has no streetlighting at the time, but the scene is not recogniseable today. This is Piccadilly - and today the ABC cinema is now M&S and Top Shop, whilst the area that the Bristol VR is waiting outside is now the Coppergate Centre's car park
http://tony3972.mysnaps.org.uk/p12251648.html
Also, that office block in the distance behind the Bristol VR is where I have to go to do 'active jobsearch', which is essentially the exact same thing as I do at home but instead I have to go out on a bike in all weather and cycle for 3-4 miles and go up 5 floors in a dodgy lift to sit on a PC for about 40 minutes to find out that there are in fact no suitable jobs for me...

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this is a recent pic, and may interest Claire and Stelmer. This is in the Rufforth depot, and looks a bit like a leyland PD2/PD3 that is being restored. but what about the bus in the background? looks like they may have a Roe Atlantean
http://northeastandyorkshirebus.fotopic ... 73906.html

and one for locals like myself to look out for:
http://northeastandyorkshirebus.fotopic ... 73884.html

and it appears they have one more Alexander RL Olympian than I knew about - which is good as I love these vehicles!
http://northeastandyorkshirebus.fotopic ... 73916.html
these ones are ex-lothian.

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I found this gem in Rail magazine, Doncaster works 1987 and superb line of Alpha 1s on what are probably steel columns. Photo by Les Nixon.

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That's quite a clear picture. I love the angled brackets.

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Another gem, courtesy of Dr Ian Callen/www.transporttreasury.co.uk/Rail magazine.

Sheringham station, Norfolk, probably sometime during the early 1960s. Note the fluorescent platform lighting, the finned CU column on the left with a top entry mercury lantern and on the road over bridge, another fluorescent lighting the road.

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I wish those columns on the platforms were still around with the fluorescents on top! a very brutalist installation.

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Phosco152 wrote:
I found this gem in Rail magazine, Doncaster works 1987 and superb line of Alpha 1s on what are probably steel columns. Photo by Les Nixon.

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Those are concrete columns. Once upon a time there were some like that in Eastleigh Borough.


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Yeah, I think they are Stanton 8F columns. Still quite common in Lytham St. Annes sleeved and unsleeved.

Anyway, I got some transport pictures of my own for you! All of these come courtesy of the excellent Fylde Bus Blog - http://fyldebus.blogspot.com/

http://tinyurl.com/36hzxml
Back to 1986 and one of Blackpool's Leyland Nationals on the very short-lived park & ride service (which nobody used!). Some GEC high-mast lanterns are clearly visible but there is a nice surprise in this picture for you as well! If you look closely at the row of terraced houses on the left you will see a Revo Junior Sol-e-Tern! These were once quite common in Blackpool (mainly the southern half) which is surprising because Blackpool were more of a GEC user in the 50s/60s.

http://tinyurl.com/39p3tpp
Same year, same day, same bus but a little earlier on in the journey. More high-masts and some SGS203s on unusual long-bracketed 8m British Steel columns. These installations remain to this day!

http://tinyurl.com/26stoux
1985, Station Road, Poulton. This is a massey-bodied ex-Fylde Transport Leyland PD2 which at this stage in it's life was actually owned by a vicar and was used to take his flock on outings around the area. Hard to tell what the lantern is but I know from memory it was an Eleco GR150 on a S&L column.

http://tinyurl.com/329v2x8
1979, and two AEC Swifts pass on Abingdon Street in Blackpool town centre. In the background, a Phosco P222 can clearly be seen and if you look above the bus on the left you can see a GEC post-top two-forty fluorescent. Contrary to popular belief, I think the back of a bus doesn't look all that bad!  :lol:

http://tinyurl.com/2f7sduo
Three different bus companies show their version of the Atlantean here in Lytham in 1982 (Blackpool, Fylde and Ribble from left to right). What is that heritage lantern? I guess it now genuinely is a heritage lantern! I'm thinking GEC.


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Gramma6 wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/36hzxml
Back to 1986 and one of Blackpool's Leyland Nationals on the very short-lived park & ride service (which nobody used!). Some GEC high-mast lanterns are clearly visible but there is a nice surprise in this picture for you as well! If you look closely at the row of terraced houses on the left you will see a Revo Junior Sol-e-Tern! These were once quite common in Blackpool (mainly the southern half) which is surprising because Blackpool were more of a GEC user in the 50s/60s.

http://tinyurl.com/39p3tpp
Same year, same day, same bus but a little earlier on in the journey. More high-masts and some SGS203s on unusual long-bracketed 8m British Steel columns. These installations remain to this day!


I take it that in the first picture, the bus os on the access road to/from the P&R site, otherwise there is no logical explanation for the High Masts! The Leyland National 1 looks quite nice in the Blackpool livery... Plus, seeing a green+cream leyland national 1 reminds me of the one I tootled around on a couple of times on the Borrowdale Bus route in the lake district.

By the way, the park and ride was probably not used in blackpool because people can actually get where they need to go without it taking ages (unlike York)... but the P&R sites in York aren't quite so "army obstacle course" themed!

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1985, Station Road, Poulton. This is a massey-bodied ex-Fylde Transport Leyland PD2 which at this stage in it's life was actually owned by a vicar and was used to take his flock on outings around the area. Hard to tell what the lantern is but I know from memory it was an Eleco GR150 on a S&L column.


I just like how well preserved the bus is. The PD2 always had a characteristic look to the front end (some people say it appeared a bit "sad-faced"), so it is nice to see pictures of them (and even preserved ones in the flesh) in good condition.

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Three different bus companies show their version of the Atlantean here in Lytham in 1982 (Blackpool, Fylde and Ribble from left to right). What is that heritage lantern? I guess it now genuinely is a heritage lantern! I'm thinking GEC.

it is a GEC, ZD10807 post top.

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some interesting pics there... and I keep getting distracted by looking at the buses! :lol:

this one caught my eye
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34678488@N07/5456887554/
It is one hell of a bracket - big enough to make even the americans feel out-done!

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