(11/10/2015) Powerful & Tuneful! West Midlands Travel 2989 MCW Metrobus MK2A E989VUK

[@paulbennell3313]

Wherever you encounter an MCW Metrobus, they always sound exactly the same. God, that takes me back to the 80's and GMPTE! I remember riding around in the snow in '82 or '83 on a few of these. Ahh, nostalgia!

[@viktorreznovbcfc6692]

soundtrack of young childhood I Want Them back in service

[@sambee8982]

I remember these buses too because I remember that RoadCar used to have these when they bought 35 of these MCW Metrobuses from Travel West Midlands in 2001...

[@thombt963]

Went bloody miles riding them Metro's lol....... that kick downs good 😎

[@Squiz1971]

Great video of a great bus have had the pleasure of riding her in service while at PB. Well done to all involved in getting this beast of a bus back to how she is now

[@christopherhulse8385]

Great memories of these getting thrashed on the old 556/256 Wolvo to Stourbridge.

[@歐耀良]

I love their suspension, quite soft, MCW were so popular in HongKong in decades ago

[@sambee8982]

Lincolnshire RoadCar used to have a number of MCW Metrobuses; there were at least 35 of them when they were first introduced to their fleet in 2001, and a number of them were converted to open top to replace the Leyland buses in 2004. A number of them were still in use by Stagecoach when they bought RoadCar's parent company Yorkshire Traction in December 2005, but by the start of 2007, the last of the MCW Metrobuses that Stagecoach had by that year were only used on the Skeggy Cruiser as both open top and closed top until the end of the 2009 season.

[@markwilkinson3772]

Bring these buses back to UK

[@sambee8982]

There would have to be a DDA Compliant version of it, otherwise these MCW Metrobuses wouldn't be allowed to be used for everyday service and would only be allowed to be used for heritage services...

[@markwilkinson3772]

Bring these buses back mcw west midlands buses back to the UK

[@darren4943]

The metrobus engine sings especially the Cummins L10’s that were allocated to Brixton Garage for the 59,109,133 in 80/90’s

[@brushhead]

We had a Cummins engined Metrobus in Sheffield...that was fleet number 1913. Went like the wind.

[@DecalCentralUK]

me driving!

[@RobsPublicTransportVideos]

Great Vid :)

[@mikewelch3747]

Bring em back

[@viktorreznovbcfc6692]

its better than an enviro 400mmc!

[@traivonrose9538]

This engine sounds similar too the Alexander Dennis 400

[@marsvltor2]

And a performance to put today's low-floor contraptions to shame!

[@paulwilson6540]

Maybe but that gearbox isn't suited to a Gardner engine they are at there best at low revs but obviously still cope and give the same reliable service

[@wharris302]

I'd like to know what low floor bus is as slow as that? Perhaps a DAF DB250LF, but I can't think of any others.

[@victorowen9124]

My bus for awhile at green bus

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

Not sure why they painted the roof black for as what photos I have seen of Wolverhampton Corporation Buses and when they were taken over by the WMPTE they always seemed to have green roofs.

[@DANEBLUEGNOME]

Huh?... £79 ticket for bus fare the day! 😰 Wow, what kind of ride this bus... Nice!

[@jaspallall8099]

DANEBLUEGNOME it’s just advert for car insurance

[@cjmillsnun]

@@jaspallall8099 Looks more like an advert for a flight from BHX to CDG with BA

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

If you look closely it is an advert for British Airways and could be the price of an Air fare from Birmingham to Frankfurt.

[@DANEBLUEGNOME]

@@peterwilliamallen1063 That's good guess it is. :)

[@DANEBLUEGNOME]

@@cjmillsnun What did you mean that??

[@viktorreznovbcfc6692]

this beats shit tridents very far

[@viktorreznovbcfc6692]

lee hobson showed drive the 6 solihull to birmingham and kickdown the gearbox cause normal drivers never!