Request for a bus forum

DaveR · Post by **DaveR** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 9:50 pm

RF's, I have used them a lot when I lived in Walton on Thames 218/219/264 if I remember , not the same type but when I lived near a village called Woodchurch in Kent, about seven miles from Ashford, we had a single decker not sure what it was now but the service was two buses a week one on Tuesday and one on friday the coming back on the same days, a long wait if you missed it

Dave.

NickCollier · Post by **NickCollier** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 10:00 pm

isambardkingdombrunel wrote:

We had RF`s like this when i moved to Slough in `65.Only single decker service we had Slough - Uxbridge (458) ,used due to the low railway bridge at Langley station (where i lived).

IKB.

You got to Dorking much IKB?

snowcrashandy · Post by **snowcrashandy** » Sun Jun 22, 2003 10:27 pm

Not seen a pic of an RF for ages, lovely buses.

No photos, but I did travel on a number of AEC Swift/Merlins (Couldn't work out which model without a number) in Malta a fortnight ago.

Still going strong after LT got rid of them in the late 70s (??) though they've got new engines and manual transmissions now.

Cheers,

Andy.

isambardkingdombrunel · Mon Jun 23, 2003 7:00 am

They also used a coach version of them on the 704 & 705 services from Windsor - Sevenoaks.

These are my favourites,AEC Regent's.Western Welsh took delivery of some of these just before i left West Wales in the mid 60`s.

IKB.

basildd · Post by **basildd** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 7:43 am

snowcrashandy wrote:Que for a photo!

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Yep, sounds a good idea for a new forum...........

Must have chosen a busy day - I didn't have to que once!

Mattaf · Post by **Mattaf** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 7:47 am

Defiantly! A bus forum would be great! perhaps we could organise bus driving sessions in MM2!

johndibben · Post by **johndibben** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 12:31 pm

Ah you found the photo you were after Mike .... where did you find it?

I've done the rounds since this thread was posted but didn't see that one.

There's certainly more bus stuff on the Internet than when I first looked a couple of years ago. One chap kept up to date records of most bus companies but it hadn't been updated for a while last time I looked ....

I reckon there's a place for buses and commercial vehicles on here as they appear in the sims and information and photo's are harder to come by than trains.

Vehicles can also be a good way of learning 3D modelling as a bus could have as little as 10 polys!

Dave might even get his bus simulator eventually

I'm sure he drives around town in Midtown Madness at 30mph and stops to pick up passengers .... or perhaps not

When I first went into Bletchley Park, some years ago now, I found an RF languishing in the far corner of the site. It appeared abandoned but as it had to be moved the owner was entually traced and it's gone.

Had my beady eyes on it though

isambardkingdombrunel · Mon Jun 23, 2003 12:50 pm

Yes John,aint they beautiful.Its a shame they arent Western Welsh though they are South Wales Omnibus Co ,but the livery is almost identical.

If you do a google search for AEC or a particular bus company,you get
quite a few links.

In Slough we also started getting AEC Merlins................

And AEC Swifts.......................

In the earlier 70`s ,both in their NBC London Country guise.They were hated locally and know as "The Cattle Trucks".

regards,
Mike.

johndibben · Post by **johndibben** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 1:39 pm

Where they were the one's that the crews wouldn't drive and ended up dumped on an airfied near AEC's works?

jp4712 · Post by **jp4712** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 2:18 pm

MSBS1:

As real as it gets! Drive a classic 1930 London bus on the M8 over the Forth Bridge! Take a 1970 Leyland Atlantean from New York to Chicago!

There's also a 'train spawner' feature that has unfeasibly square-looking trains travelling near the road, then turning 90 degrees on a sixpence and crossing the road by crashing through level-crossing gates...

Sadly, we have to announce that a couple of 'features' (bugs) shipped in MSBS1:

1. Passing a bus stop where people are waiting results in the game terminating.

2. The people spawner feature, when two people get in and both sit together at the front of the vehicle, makes the vehicle go very slowly. This is known as the 'front couple in' bug;

3. Activities are not included as 'bus driver' and 'activity' are mutually incompatible;

4. The cab view for the 1929 AEC Regent I is aliased to the 2003 Dennis Trident;

5. Doing anything, at all, whatsoever, at any time, is liable to make the program crash. Again.

Now, if someone was to make trolleybus overhead; and 'track' that has the appearance of a street surface; and 'signals' that looked like bus stops... then they'd be as bonkers as me.

Fodda · Post by **Fodda** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 2:37 pm

LOL! I'd buy it!

DaveR · Post by **DaveR** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 4:58 pm

johndibben wrote:
Dave might even get his bus simulator eventually

I'm sure he drives around town in Midtown Madness at 30mph and stops to pick up passengers .... or perhaps not

30mph and pick up passengers

thats what I was doing wrong, wondered why the bus was always empty, had an old guy smash the headlight once with his walking stick because I stopped about 2 metres from where he was standing at the stop, so it's a bit dangerous to stop in Brighton

Dave.

danielwilkieuk · Post by **danielwilkieuk** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 5:45 pm

I hope my photo wont end up on the net, I got it taken while driving out of Larkfield Depot this afternoon.

Worse thing was he was standing in front and slowing me down to take a photo, I think he needs a bit of a taste of my driving.

p.s yeah a bus forum would be a laugh, Somewhere i can vent my anger at that numpty who cut me up this afternoon!

johndibben · Post by **johndibben** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 6:48 pm

jp4712 wrote:MSBS1:

... then they'd be as bonkers as me.

I've obviously got competition

Post by **NeutronIC** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 8:11 pm

It's there

Matt.