READING BUSES 1989

[@AMOGLES99]

Wow, excellent footage. I left Reading in 1988, and this is exactly how I remember it.

[@xRASPUTINx]

Great memories of waiting on Broad Street for the No43 or 44A to Woodley 👍

[@TheMasterNo6]

Its all pedestrianised now - most of this was filmed on Broad St and Friar St. The lines of buses coming out and turning in is Station Road that connects to both streets - even thats pedestrianised now. Looking at this makes me realise it was for the best really and safer too for the pedestrians. But I do miss the chaos of it. Lot of memories of the town as was all flood back to me.

[@hayamburuk]

3:41 Concorde flies over, making it 11am approximately

[@kevinarnold2517]

absolutely fantastic, reading was a better place back then as such, you can even hear a concorde flying over

[@andrewmclellan3992]

I couldn't wait to leave the place (which I managed to do, come the year of this clip. Late September '89, I think). I made the mistake of a couple of years' foray back to my hometown in the early '00s: made me appreciate being anywhere but Reading.

[@TheMasterNo6]

@@andrewmclellan3992 Yes, its a terrible place now - it certainly has a 'bad energy' about it. I used to go into Broad St etc and come home feeling extremely deflated.

[@Freddy67675]

Left reading in 99, went back to visit in 2023, boy has it changed.

[@TheSimonhammond]

this brings back so many memories i would of been 11 years old! i loved on the 44a and 44b woodley circular. Wished we had more titans on our route! ah the days when buses were buses before the Optare invasion!

[@IncognitoTrap]

Who’s trying to find their relatives on here? lol

[@Markjuk]

Watching this it is amazing how much Reading and its transport has changed in the last 20 years! When were the Reading Transport buses in this video withdrawn from service?

[@00simonwise]

@Markjuk The Metropolitans were all gone by 1992 (prototype GRX1N being the last to go oddly enough) but the Titans & Metrobuses were still about in the 21st century.

[@TR25W]

@00simonwise GRX 1N wasn't a prototype, merely the first of its type in Reading. NVP533M was the Scania Metropolitan demonstrator that was also the first one to be built.

[@RamseySoudah]

Oh my.. this was just around the time I started working for RB.. I forgot the buses even looked like that when I was driving them.. and seeing Broad street open to traffic like that seems so strange now... It's sad some things have to change.. it's hardly ever for the better...

[@paulakhs]

Smelly Alley too!

[@wharris302]

I couldn't hear concord,only the sound of the buses.

[@lucyhutchings4825]

The 24 coley park bus

[@sh-ig9fm]

1:30 what brand/model bus is that

[@LightBloxVidsYT]

Wow reading bus look so old I was born in 2010 things look similar

[@DG-EditsYT]

You are 14, everything is old 😂

[@RaymondFunnell-bs1wl]

Reading buses Metropolitans Leyland Titans Metro buses and a Optare Excel and Beeline Nationals

[@wharris302]

Concorde*

[@noggin48]

The buses that you see, are real buses, not the down-right dangerous Eco buses of today! The only true Eco bus, Reading Corporation Transport already had them O_O we called them, Trolleybuses! =D 17, & 18 Routes were for the Trolleybus. Dodgy-Handshakers got rid of them, all over the country. Dodgy-Handshakers are still being Non-Democratic to this day!

[@TheSimonhammond]

*lived

[@tritonraider]

Quite a lot jaywalkers, almost like an Asian city :P yet not nearly as chaotic as your typical Asian city.