A few photos from a rather roundabout route home from uni!

The next batch of photos are all from the GVVT social trip to Blackpool.

As usual, I was so busy I hardly got any time to enjoy the Open Day. Here's the photos that me and Dad took.

Some bus photos from a week's holiday in the Algarve.

MSD 408 masqueraded as Bulgy The Bus during the Caledonian Railway's Thomas The Tank day, 30 August 2009.

I've been after a photo of this one's Homecoming Scotland advert for ages, but so far this phone photo is the best I've managed.

Not many photos this year - I was too busy driving, scheduling and panicking!

We took Gary's Leopard for a trip to the Leyland Rally. A very enjoyable trip, which also included some modern bus spotting in Preston.

These photos were taken at the West End Festival vintage bus service.

The next few photos were on a trip to the Royal Highland Show. Lothian were running a shuttle service with their remaining traditional madder/white Volvo Olympians. After this, the ones with overall adverts will stay on, but the rest of the fleet will be low floor Harlequin livery buses.

For this year, the second annual South Side Festival, we were running a vintage bus service between George Square and Queens Park, as well as a circular route through Pollokshields, Pollokshaws and Shawlands. These photos show the 6 buses used at various points on the routes.

Photos from the SVBM Spring Running Day, which was perfect weather, giving lots of photo opportunities.

First have recently started running a supported service (375) from Old Cathcart to Patterton Station. I went out to get a photo of it, since it's a short term contract which'll only run until July. I snapped some other buses while I was waiting.

Dad brought me back 2 bus photos from walking the Great Glen Way.

A photo Dad took while in London of the inevitable red Routemaster!

Finally got my photos captioned and uploaded. I've been a bit slow this time round!

A lucky snap at lunchtime was soon-to-be First Glasgow 38201 [DE1] (SN09 CAU), running on trade plates and probably on its delivery run. It was following 38202 [DE2] (SN09 CAV) which got through the lights before I could get my phone out.

Another assortment from the city centre on my lunchtime wander.

Some bus photos from a short break in London.

Former Clydeside G750 (GCS 50V) was our chariot for the Edinburgh and East Fortune Tour.

Photos by mobile phone again, sorry about the picture quality.

The Christmas Rail Replacement buses are becoming an annual fixture. Here's the 2008 selection.

Blackpool 501 (HFR 501E) at the Duck Bay Marina on the GVVT pre-dinner Christmas trip.

As I only had my mobile phone (again!) with its not all that brilliant camera, I only bothered to take two pictures on today's trip.

This batch were taken when Ingram Street was shut westbound at Glassford Street, South Frederick Street and South Hanover Street were shut both ways, and Montrose Street was shut southbound at Cochrane Street. The resultant tangle of diversions, if taken literally, would leave a motorist in permanent orbit around George Square. Here are some off-route runnings.

I only took this photo so I could check the details of the X6 branding on First's rented coaches.

It's a bit blurry and the bus is too far away, but you can see what the new branding looks like!

17 photos this year - 14 on the street and 3 in the shed. Next year I'll try to get some photos along the route but I'm normally too busy.

Catriona took this photo of two Bulgarian coaches for me on her holidays.

Another (late) lunchtime's worth of wandering around Glasgow with my camera at the ready.

This batch are from the Omnibus Society Presidential Weekend, based in Edinburgh this year.

I was bored while waiting for a bus and started taking photos on my phone. After one photo my bus arrived.

While at a conference in Edinburgh, I managed to get a few Lothian photos on my phone.

I got a major surprise today when I looked out the back window of the Scania I was on my way home on, to find a bendybus following us on a peak run of the 66.

En route to Lathalmond 2008, I stopped at the petrol station, then couldn't get LA1204 started again. Thankfully the cavalry came to my rescue after I used up most of my mobile phone balance!

Having finally upgraded to a phone with a camera, here's the two trial photos I took to see how good it is, and to make sure I could get them transferred from phone to PC.

At the Glasgow Show on 27 July, I was spotted by some friends who came for a trip on the last bus of the day and took plenty photos of me and it.

A few photos from a short cycle ride down through Shawlands, and back up via Battlefield.

On the 8th July, a Gibson Optare Solo on the SPT dial-a-bus service in Shawlands had a bad crash, straight into a tree.

Preparing for the West End Festival vintage bus service, and the Parade of Wheels, the weather looked like it would be perfect. Photography was later abruptly curtailed by a cloudburst. At this point Dad was under an umbrella to get photos of the Parade in progress. By the time the Parade finished, the weather improved.

I went out on my bike to get a batch of photos. I got as far as Cathcart, then it began to rain so I headed back with only 2 photos. Sigh.

Matching the unexpected French Routemaster further down the page, here's a photo of a novel use for a Routemaster, snapped in Hungary by one of my lecturers.

Even flatpacked, furniture takes up a lot of room, and there are times when a large vehicle comes in handy!

Once again, the Scottish Vintage Bus Museum put on a great show for their running day, greatly helped by the sunshine this time!

Some photos of the more unexpected buses that Dad encountered on holiday in the far North of Scotland.

I went on my first Omnibus Society Weekend Tour this year, the destination being Sheffield. It's taken me 2 weeks to get all the photos captioned with just the bare minimum. Enjoy!

The first photos were taken on the way to Vintage Voyages on Saturday 3 May. Thanks to Gary for lending me his camera, otherwise these photos would never have happened!

The second set were taken by Dad on Sunday 4 May. Thanks Dad!

The first bus rally I've ever been to in the snow!

While on a 2 week trip to carry out some work at Bristol University I managed to snatch some bus photos on a sunny Saturday.

A dry lunch hour for the first time in weeks!

The whole of Glasgow Central main station was closed over the Christmas holidays to allow for new signalling work. I scooted into town twice to get some photos of the rail replacement fleet which included many of the usual suspects, and some less usual ones!

Another enjoyable GVVT social event. Mostly photos taken in Seagate Bus Station of the Stagecoach Strathtay vehicles resident there.

I had a (very) brief trip to London on 21/11/07, and managed to get a handful of photos. The London traffic makes it tricky – It's far busier than Glasgow.

Any corrections to my captions are welcomed - quite a few of the photos are hard to get fleet/registrations from so I may have got them wrong. In the first photo, thanks to that taxi, I don't even know what company it is!

L108 was used for a "Santa Special" for Debenhams. While we loaded up I got a chance to get some photos at the St. Enoch bus terminus.

Also included are some photos Paul Adams took of L108 after we'd got to Argyle Street via 3 laps of the City Centre!

An Omnibus Society Tour on the 3rd November ended at First Glasgow's Parkhead Depot.

I got slightly more photos this year!

A lunch-hour's worth of wandering round Glasgow City Centre with a camera.

The Lathalmond Rally this year was a right washout on Saturday. The Sunday was better apparently, but the rain never stopped for a minute on Saturday.

Photos taken on route to the Biggar Rally in "Sydney" as far as Larkhall, then back to Bridgeton to swap with the Metrorider

Waterfoot Road was shut toward the end of July, leading to the 44 being diverted via Mearns Castle High School and the Glasgow Southern Orbital. We went on a photography expedition to a roundabout where the Orbital crosses Waterfoot Road.

This is the only bus photo I had time to take at the Plasma Spectroscopy Workshop in Greifswald, Germany, July 2007.

First have recently taken over the bus services of Hutchisons of Overtown. This is the first sign I saw of it.

The next batch were taken on the 6th July 07, the first day of operation of a City Tour by Beta Buses (T/A Go Diesel). I took a selection of photos of both them and City Sightseeing Glasgow’s fleets for comparison.

On a trip to Rome, Dad took these photos of the Technobus used in Rome city centre.

Dad took some bus photos for me on Orkney. Mostly Rapsons that far North.

This batch were taken on 10 June, and were at the Stagecoach Western 75th Anniversary Running Day.

This batch were all taken at the Lathalmond Spring Running day 2007.

Some more new arrivals at Bridgeton. While the Council are moving the Transport Museum, they needed some extra space. This has given us two extra buses to look after in the meantime.

An ex-Central Dominator arrived, just while I had my camera handy.

The next selection were taken at my first experience of the Kirkby Stephen Rally, in April 2007. The GVVT sent 4 buses (SCS 335M, NMS 358 , FVA 854 , E186 BNS) plus DSG 169 from Lathalmond.

As ever, more photos of E186 BNS are available on its Fotopic site at http://gm47.fotopic.net.

On 10 March 2007, almost all services to Glasgow Central were replaced by buses between Central and the penultimate stop.

Another bus photography trip in to Glasgow City Centre.

These photos were taken on a very wet day in November when we went out to test the Metrorider's new wipers and get photos of the Ritchies training buses.

On 27 and 30 October, I took my camera into town to get some photos of buses in ordinary service.

These are the photos I managed to find time to take at the GVVT Open Day 2006.

This batch of photos was taken on the Omnibus Society Tayside Tour.

This is a batch of photos from the Lathalmond Open Weekend 2006, which Bridgeton managed to get 22 buses to. I was only through on the Saturday so 4 buses which went through on Sunday only aren't shown here.

This set of photos were taken for the Publicity Leaflet, but I've bunged them up here for anyone else to see that wants to.

3 bus photos from somewhere in the Hebrides which my Aunt Alison took specially for me!

In August, Peter's Atlantean was in use as a polling booth in a community buyout vote in Neilston.

On the 29th July 06, the MacBrayne Circle and the GVVT ran a bus trip from Glasgow to Ardrishaig, to coincide with the Ardrishaig Gala Day.

From 15 July 2006 to 22 July 2006, the Neilston line was shut between Cathcart and Neilston. After Mount Florida, trains diverted to Kings Park to link with buses to Neilston. A wide variety of buses were used over the week.

On Saturday 8 July 2006, there was a shuttle bus from Buchanan Bus Station to Balado for T in the Park goers. These photos are a small selection of the umpteen buses running over the weekend.

These photos are of the 3 GVVT buses which put in an appearance at the Glasgow Show as static exhibits.

On 29 June 2006, 5 preserved Glasgow Corporation Transport vintages returned to Bridgeton, having been sold from their previous preservationist owner to First Glasgow, and thence to Glasgow City Council, who garage them at Bridgeton.

This is a random selection of the Caledonia Buses / Linn Park Buses / New Concept Coaches fleet, which can have any combination of fleetnames and legal lettering while being on any service. Some buses also carry Airbus Express fleetnames on what is technically a Linn Park service.

The 2006 Parade of wheels included a variety of buses from the GVVT, and various other vehicles. Some of them are seen here, before the Parade left Bridgeton.

On Saturday 17th June 2006, the Bo'ness Steam railway was having a running weekend, and wanted vintage buses to come along. Bridgeton sent 4 buses.

FTE 632B is an East Lancs bodied Leyland PD3 which we were collecting for spares from Liddell's of Auchinleck. The engine is the only good thing about this bus, and that just happens to be the bit we needed.

As the Ailsas get fewer and further between, I spotted one going up the road on a peak run 66. I grabbed my camera and waited for it to come back down. It didn't.

While it tried my patience, I had the chance to snap assorted buses going about their business.

This preserved bus was spotted on the motorway back through England as we returned from our holiday in France.

The first thing which greets you when you leave the boat in Roscoff is a former London Routemaster at the side of the road, for some reason.

The Glasgow Vintage Vehicle trust got 14 buses to Lathalmond this year. There's one picture of each, along with some of the other vehicles there.

While on Mull, I got this photo of two of Bowman's coaches, which somehow got overlooked for upload. Very late, here it is.

From 30 April till the time of captioning this on 11 May, and a bit beyond, Clarkston Road was shut citybound at the Cathcart railway bridge. This led to a huge diversion for services 66 and 44, missing every stop between Muirend Somerfield and Sinclair Drive (44) or Battlefield Road (66). First ran a shuttle bus to Merrylee road with minibuses which could definitely get under the Merrylee Road bridge. Also on the 6th of May, the railway line was being worked on somewhere between Glasgow Central and Pollokshields East, as well as between Central and Pollokshields West. Buses were substituting on these two very short rail replacement services.

These are photos of the original artists impression of the St. Enoch Centre. It was built next to a bus station, then served by green and yellow GGPTE buses, a fact which the artist was presumably aware of!

On 28 March 2006, Cosla were holding a strike, which closed Buchanan Street Bus Station, along with umpteen other places.

Most of these photos are around the bus station, but I took some general Glasgow bus photos as well.

These are the photos from the Omnibus Society Glasgow Tour in March.

These are the photos from the Omnibus Society Edinburgh Tour in February.

Assorted Pictures from the second annual GVVT Open Day.

First ScotRail's trains were being replaced by buses on the Glasgow Central-Newton line between Mount Florida and Newton on Sunday 26 June 2005. On Saturdays 9 and 16 July 2005 the rail replacement buses ran from King's Park to Neilston on the Glasgow Central-Neilston line. On Sunday 17 July 2005, the Neilston line was entirely shut, and buses were running between Glasgow Central and Neilston, then on Sunday 24 July, the Glasgow Central-Neilston line was shut between Cathcart and Glasgow Central. The rail replacement service ran from Muirend to Glasgow Central.

The 2005 Parade of wheels included a variety of buses from the GVVT, and various other vehicles. Many of them are seen here.

Sometimes there are interesting buses (usually secondhand) on their way to First Glasgow, but this day there were none. The place is shut now!

The Scottish Vintage Bus Museum 20th Anniversary running day on 15 May at Lathalmond.

An Ailsa when it broke down on Clarkston Road early in May 05. My attention was drawn to it by an incredible racket coming up the road!

Following the Lanarkshire OS Tour, some ex-First Glasgow buses had been spotted in a yard in Stonehouse, so we went back the next day to investigate.

Most of these photos were taken on the Omnibus Society Lanarkshire Tour on 3 April 2005.

Sometime in December, I went out on my bike to get photos of the then new Wright Eclipse Gemini deckers. Then it began to rain, so I gave up and went home, taking the one solitary picture of the day on the way!

Over the Summer of 2004, I was carrying out a research project on placement in a lab at Instituto Superior Técnico. I managed to find time to get some photos of the Lisbon bus (and tram) scene. I haven't managed to identify some of the bus types. Any info would be appreciated!

Some info on the trams courtesy of Gary Conn - Thanks, Gary!:

The modern Lisbon trams are built by Siemens. The older cars are single truck. The 500 series (which are single ended - driving controls at one end only) are still in regular use and are fitted with trolleypoles and pantographs depending on what route they run. The 700 series (double ended) are in reserve for hires and use on routes which are curtailed short of the terminus that require the driver to change ends - all terminal points on the system have turning loops. Tram number 10 is the last remaining bogie car which has 2 bogies rather than one truck.

A sneak into Larkfield on the 5th of June 2004 to check the identity of the white Atlantean which turned out to be LA697.

This is a collection of the photos I took with various old-fashioned film cameras before I went digital in 2004. Many of the photos aren't brilliant, but they're here anyway.

There may be some more recent photos which other people have taken as well. I've credited the photographer where known. If any of the photos are yours and you don't want me to use them, please let me know. If it's OK for me to use them, get in touch and I'll credit you properly.


The photos are partly sorted out, but still seem a bit random.