Walter Alexander didn’t come near Northern Counties in my honest opinion.

They do look great lit up at night. The Ribble PD3s exhaust was something I grew up with so is always a pleasure to hear again. Hopefully this year's nocturnal running day will just as good

Don't old buses look inviting in the dark with all the lights on. I've only ever ridden in one Leyland Panther, but I was quite impressed with it. Certainly a lot quieter than a Leyland National. And why don't buses now have exhaust notes like at19:15? 👩‍🌾

Why do London buses have two doors and the ones in Liverpool only one. Is congestion a more important issue in London?

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Did you get your B10M from Robinson's by any chance?

A1 to Stevenston, I'll stop at Kilwinning! These A1 Service buses take me back to my childhood in the 1970's and up until June 1980. Then it was Lothian Regional Transport. I remember Ribble and Merseyside buses when I went to Southport for holidays.

I couldn't attend this year ,but your video makes me feel I was there Thanks .

Get yourself to the Glasgow vintage vehicle trust open weekend in October at the old Bridgeton bus garage with a very large array of buses not seen at the SVBM running through the city via the riverside transport museum, though why have it every year in October with an 80% chance of rain 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

I liked the vintage buses film it was fantastic. He was an actor but reg varney drove a green double decker in the comedy series on the buses. The first bus 34 route in glasgow is environmentally friendly single deckers cover the entire length between castlemilk and govan bus station

The SVBM is near to me, being in Fife, and I've attended before. It's actually reckoned to be the biggest bus museum site in Britain, with capacity for 6000 vehicles, and is an ex MOD naval stores site! At 7:47, we see ex Fife Scottish Leyland Leopard PSX 189Y. This was, numerically, the last Leyland Leopard new to Fife Scottish, in 1982, and it was the last Leyland Leopard in service with Stagecoach Fife, being withdrawn in November 1999. Interestingly, there was no special event to mark that last day in service, but for its last day, it was allocated to express services between Leven and Edinburgh, instead of a Volvo B10M-62 coach!

Did the LYR and merseyrailway electric units had growling gearboxes

hi is there another hooton park run this year?

I used this network, to cross the Mersey. Very modern with helpful staff.

My cousin works there

The Germans bombed the hell out of it in the war and it was going to cost around 10 million to rebuild it. I travelled on it many times up to its closure in 1956.

Love the custard and cream livery!

Thanks so much for this video. I used this line extensively as a kid, as did many people living on the line. It was full of happy memories. Better days.

Back in those wonderful days that we were privileged to have witnessed, bus travel was an occasion to savour. This magnificent bus has real poise and elegance. I remember travelling on the Edinburgh Atlanteans rattling over the cobbles of the old city. Nowadays they are just boxes on wheels.

Firstly the LOR was a PRIVATE COMPANY. They didnt, or couldnt invest the sums needed to upgrade . The figure of £2 million was quoted but dont forget this was 1956 prices, nowadays more like £100 million. That sum would have been needed for other council services. The. city council could not afford to bail out a private company and the Conservative government refused to nationalise the LOR pointing to the parallel Liverpool -Southport line which was also s an early electric venture dating from 1902. Liverpool Corporation decided to buy 50 new buses and start a new bus route 1, and 1A-1E between Dingle and Seaforh but the roads in Dingle were in need of reusuf ac ing as the Victorian cobbles would have damaged buses. Not only that but buses had to climb Dingle Mount where the LOR had a tunnel . Liverpool was also having to replace trams at the same time. The LOR needed investment. The docks were also changing to and shipping moved north up river and the docks south of Pier Head gradually ran down. closing after the bankruptcy of the Meraey Docks and Harbour Board The LOR could only with patching lasted until 1970as shipping declined. Much is made of the tourist potential but even the Mersey Ferries spend much of the year sailing with more crew than passengers in the winter months The vista of derelict docks wod not have been appraling to tourists, not too many years after the closure there would have been little shipping to see, especially when the Atlantic liners ceased in the early 1970s. The dock labour was whittled away fron 20000 to a few hundred by the end of the 20th century . More people drive cabs than there are sailors and dock workers nowadays Even I as a child in the 1960s had to be told by my father about the LORs existence as no trace remained. The MD and HB railway closed in 1973 after the company went bust I do eemember the railway line but by my childhood few trains ever ran south of Pier Head by then. Sadly when I was born the LOR was being demolished and the trams had gone Born too late for two pillars of Liverpool transport history.

Thank you, I really enjoyed that, brought lots of memories back!

They didn't save any of the brown plastic cladding? Oh no, what a shame! I was really interested in the posters they found under Hamilton Square when they did the renovation

Thank you so much for producing this fascinating video! I have a feeling that there’s some ‘binge watching’ coming on. I lived in Crosby until I was 21, then moved to Loughborough,where I quickly found the GCR, which is a frequent visiting place. We are so very blessed to have such a wonderful facility on our doorstep! I’ve always loved steam traction, and can still remember ‘steamers’ coming into Lime Street Station!

I am absolutely fascinated by this video. Such a thorough insight into the underground loop system that I love and grew up using. Though I think the advancements of the network, refurbished stations and new trains are great, I really miss the old school dark and dingy feel the whole system had back in the 2000’s. The old trains being suspended from service is a huge loss. I’ll never forget the sounds of the old trains. Everything down to the DC motor sound and the clicking sound the trains would make when stopped at each station. The older trains definitely had just a slightly mustier smell to them as well, compared to the new trains. I’ll also never forget the old platforms as well. I have memories going back to when I was a kid, attempting to sit on the old brown seats, integrated into the brown walls. I found it almost impossible to keep myself seated on those seats, as I remember I kept almost sliding off the seats because of the way they were designed. So much was covered in this video, all of which I find has been covered so thoroughly. But I have a couple of questions related to a couple of more minor things featured in the underground stations. First one is about the removal of 1 escalator at Hamilton Square and another at Lime Street. I’m wondering whether or not you know roughly when they were converted to become steps. Second question is about the big banks of the larger lifts at Hamilton Square and James Street. Not including the smaller lifts that go directly to the platforms. Looking at the floor plans/blueprints featured in this video, it looks as if both Hamilton Square and James Street each used to have 6 main lifts, instead of the 4 found in both stations today. Was this the case? Also were the main lifts at each of these stations refurbished to become self-operational around the time of the loop opening in the late 70’s? I ask this because I know they were originally operated by an operator, from looking at pictures of the old lifts at these stations. Also because I can’t find much information anywhere about the lifts at Hamilton Square and James Street. I know this is a very specific question which is a very minor part of the loop development, but my curiosity has got the better of me.

I have been on some of those old coaches when I was young and when I was at school. Including when going out on a day trip.

Some very nice buses with colourful liveries on them.

Very nice vintage buses. My Grandad used to love riding on them when he was young. And he used to take pictures of old buses back in his days.

BEAMISH AN ABSOLUTELY MUST SEE IF YOU ARE IN THE LOCAL AREA, ESPECIALLY IF YOU LIKE THINGS FROM THIS PERIOD IN TIME.

Superb, been years since I was last there. Shame no trolleybuses running though, there were 2 in the garage and plenty of overhead up. Would have been ideal

Nice ride in the very early National. It always makes a change to see one in municipal livery. Considering the engines were designed to be thrown away went they went wrong, they haven't done too badly!

thanks for bringing your coach to our local show. had a trip to Nailsworth at a table. As a retired coach driver was good for someone else to drive. Caroline

Superb video, once again. It was a great trip and a most enjoyable day. Travelled in style thanks to Steve on the Crosville RE.

Was that Neil Scales I saw on the Sunderland tram? (Old Merseytravel joke) 😊

Off topic, the bank on the main street came from Southport.

Excellent video and much appreciated!

Interesting video with a cracking selection of buses from the 1920's to the 1960's - I have been to the Black Country Museum at Dudley which has a similar atmosphere and really must go to Beamish one of these days. Nice to see Blackpool tram 31 which is a rebuilt 'Marton Box' car dating originally from 1901 and rebuilt in the 1920's. South Shields 140 is a Daimler CCG6 (quite a rare type compared to the more usual CVG) and the Darlington bus you have shown is a similar type but with a 5 cylinder engine instead of 6 - both have classic Roe bodywork. Lovely!

I live off Wango lane ,when i first moved up there i would take the dog around the back of Aintree racecourse,,canal turn. there was all large space next to the Kirkby line with lots of what looked like Railway building all demolished. was this some sort of goods yard back in the day ?

Didn't even relatively small places like Morecambe & Heysham and Lytham St Anne's have some splendid liveries

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Thanks for spotting us at 8:53!

My mates dad had a coach company and his favourite coach was a Leyland Leopard with Duple coachwork. It was as smooth as silk!!!

The B&W photo of Mersey tank loco "Liverpool", that loco ended up in Australia. After the locos were retired from Mersey Railway service they were sent to Beyer Peacock who overhauled them and removed the condensing equipment. The Major, Liverpool Connaught and Gladstone were bought by John Brown a mining magnate who had a large private colliery railway system called the Richmond Vale Railway. The Mersey tank locos were numbered 5,6,7 and 8. Number 5 lasted the longest ending her days at the Hexham depot where she was in use as a buffer stop. All the locos on that railway came from England including 13 ROD's of which three still survive the last one dropping it's fire for the final time in 1973. The loco had a long a varied career having served in France in WW1. Unlike the preserved ROD the RVR ROD's were never altered from their Great Central design. The RVR used steam right to the end in June 1987.

That ran on the Ribble L3 route, Crosby to Skelhorne Street, Liverpool for a few times. Was on it a couple of times going to school. They also ran a Royal Tiger on that route for a few times. Nice to see a well restored Atlantean, well done. Ex. Leland Bus employee now expat in Florida.

Fabulous to attend this event! Also apparently the driver of 3163 at the event got scolded at for some apparent reason

Fabulous set of photos. Wonderful to see, bringing back memories for me of when I was a kid, and the trains were more like these types. I never know for sure which ones were which, but I’m talking of 1974 to the mid 80s, whatever units were running between the wirral and Liverpool during that period. I just loved the sights, sounds and even the smells of the trains and the underground back then. The rattle of the train, the fabric seats, the flickering lamps, the wooden panels in the carriages, etc. The modern trains may be more efficient, cleaner, quieter etc, and perhaps the memory cheats, but I’d love to experience the 70s units and atmosphere of the trips back then. Thanks for these photos.

Was planning to attend, but a house viewing turned up at the last minute. Hope to go to the nocturnal running day .😉. Thanks for the upload .

Beautiful Bus and so ahead of it’s time. Nobody can do it like us !

Isnt it a bit of a risk running precious preserved buses after dark? Too easy a target for the brick brigade I fear!

Hi i'm viatron from Sheffield, well I like to see a 1950 Crossley SD42/7 half cab forward entrance single deck bus from Southport Corporation making it's very first outing on the old Southport Corporation bus routes around the seaside resort & prolapse you might make a very special vintage bus video about it, because I like to see a vintage 1950 Crossley DD42/7 half cab single deck bus run a very special circular tour when it finally comes out. Thank you for your co-operation on this very special Crossley bus subject from David Viatron Esquire of crookes in Sheffield.

The Northumbria ‘liver bus’ coach 3000, had a bit of a mishap on the way back from pagemoss at the small bus way at Stockbridge. It managed to get wedged on the mirror of an arriva going in the opposite direction. Whoops.