Northwest Vehicle restoration Trust Kirkby Vintage bus open day 2024

The 2024 Northwest Vehicle restoration Trust Kirkby open day. Vintage buses from the home fleet are joined by visiting buses from the north west.

[@tangerinedream7211]

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 .

[@Merseywail]

You missed a good day, sadly. The nocturnal event is good especially after It gets dark. Very atmospheric

[@Andrewjg_89]

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.

[@Merseywail]

@AndrewG1989 me too. I used to love a day trip on the old coaches. Luckily I occasionally get the chance to do day trips on old coaches . Being a member of various preservation groups.

[@MerseyTransport]

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

[@Merseywail]

It was a good event, the guys at Kirkby always put a good show on. Am not aware of any issues happening

[@MerseyTransport]

@@Merseywail indeed

[@marksinthehouse1968]

Mate,some superb items of tolling stock there ,but you know what I’m going to say a restored metro on the 73 that use to serve my part of London, Hammersmith before the 10 replaced it and the 73 diverted to Victoria ,I drove metros most of the time I worked at V and S garages ,but that example with a fully restored front dash panel fog lights and silver beading looked perfect and yellow front doors ,you know before I fall off my perch I would love to drive a metro once more and hear its whine and retard noise ,hehe I see the LT dolly stop is still there must off been pinched on a boozy weekend down here 😂😂 Take care all the best Mark 😊😊

[@Merseywail]

Some really good buses at the event. We had some metro buses on Merseyside but the MPTE never really ordered many of them.

[@marksinthehouse1968]

@@Merseywailyou should of seen me last bus on the 94 flying down Bayswater road safely of course 😊I remember the opening. To the liver birds showed metropolitans and later series the dad of one of the girls was a bus driver 😊

[@Merseywail]

@@marksinthehouse1968 Liverpool was a big customer of the Atlantean, but it did dip its toe in with other models. This policy was largely followed by MPTE. Yes I remember the bus driver in the liver birds, he was very proud of 'his' bus.

[@Kurisu87]

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.

[@Merseywail]

That's unfortunate no serious damage I hope

[@Kurisu87]

@@Merseywail Gladly not!

[@paulmason329]

I saw a Halton Transport bus .So sad that this operator went belly up as they did invest in their fleet until their centenary .. The irony is that Halton closed before the COVID lockdown of 2020. An awful coincidence. Its always good to see FHF 451 but I do worry that itll be flogged to death and it might be an idea to have FHF 456 if its got its seats back. FHF 451 is precious to lose and must be used sparingly. As for UKA 562H it wears the livery LCPT gave to L749 briefly as to indicate a driver only bus. However the drab green livery was applied to L749. Dusl door buses very rapidly we nt out of favour and a lot of money was wasted on aL570 L749 and L830-879. Anyway thats history........

[@Merseywail]

Wallasey 1 is well looked after by the 201 bus group. They have 3 buses in the group. Wallasey 1, Birkenhead 10, and MPTE 1070. No 1 has seen a lot more use lately due to issues with the main group workhorse 1070. This should be back in action soon relieving Wallasey 1

[@paulmason329]

Thanks for replying Merseywail So they own the "Alpha and Omega" of Leyland Atlanteans. Of course 1070 is forty years old this year (is it that old already?). Thanks anyway keep up the good work!

[@WallaseyanTube]

I do not know what they have done to it but Wallasey's Atlanteans never sounded like that when in service.

[@Merseywail]

Someone remarked to me recently that non of the preserved atlanteans sound the same anymore. His suggestion was its down to the fuel & lubricants that are used today

[@WallaseyanTube]

@@Merseywail I think there is more to it than that. It sounds like they may have swapped the engine out or the manifold for one from a and old PD2, but it also sounds a bit like a Bristol as well.

[@Merseywail]

@@WallaseyanTube it would have had modifications over the years , especially with it being the first

[@WallaseyanTube]

@@Merseywail Possibly, though it is also unfortunate.

[@WezRail]

Hit me up in advance next time and if I'm on shift then I'll stick the kettle on at Headbolt Lane 😂😂

[@Merseywail]

I will have to remember next time.Not sure if there's a feeder bus for the nocturnal event, if there is I will let you know

[@WezRail]

@@Merseywail I did look to see if you had X or Facebook as I was going to pop you a message, but you don't 😂

[@Merseywail]

@@WezRail I am on Facebook. I will send you a request

[@WezRail]

@@Merseywail Aaahhh I didn't realise that's who you are..

[@Merseywail]

@Wez2024 yes! Now you know why I don't appear on camera. Don't want to put people off their dinner lol 😆

[@brianmadden9754]

If your budding career in the bus video world doesn't take off, there's always natural history. David Attenborough can't live forever.

[@Merseywail]

Lol I couldn't resist putting that in. Poor bee, but well done the small spider for tackling a bee.