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GARDEN FESTIVAL SPECIALS
| 题名： | GARDEN FESTIVAL SPECIALS |
| 正文语种： | eng |
| 摘要： | The International Garden Festival in Liverpool from May to October 1982 was the first of five events held to accelerate redevelopment in depressed industrial areas, with recreational facilities for residents and tourist attractions. Festivals followed at Stoke-on-Trent in 1986, Glasgow in 1988, Gateshead in 1990 and Ebbw Vale in 1992. The Liverpool festival drew nearly 3.4 million visitors to the former dock area fronting the River Mersey, which was served internally by a narrow gauge railway with steam and diesel rolling stock. Merseyside PTE arranged shuttle bus service 401 between the Pier Head and the festival, operated every lOmin with dedicated double-deckers, two each from the PTE's own fleet and National Bus Company subsidiaries Crosville and Ribble. All were identified by a yellow fronts. The PTE's pair were Alexander-bodied Leyland Atlanteans new in 1981 with the rest of their bodywork painted red to advertise Higsons Merseyside Beers. They were not its newest buses - similar Atlanteans with A-prefixed registrations were entering service around the same time - but were significantly younger than NBC's offering. Ribble provided ECW-bodied Series 2 Bristol VRTs new in early 1972, while Crosville's commitment was Northern Counties-bodied Daimler Fleetlines new to Southdown in October 1970 and among 15 transferred to Crosville in 1980. As Iain MacGregor's June 1984 pictures show, NBC liveries of poppy red and white or leaf green and white were retained on the rest of the bodywork. Like other buses operated within the PTE area, they had Merseyside's 'Catherine wheel' logo as well as NBC's red, white and blue 'N-sign.' The Gardner 6LX-engined Fleetlines were among few full-height double-decks in Crosville's fleet, hence HDG (Highbridge Daimler Gardner) prefixes and numbers in the 900s. Another 15 were from Southdown with ECW bodies and Leyland engines, ten with MCW bodies from Merseyside PTE and six VRTs with highbridge East Lanes bodies from South Yorkshire. In 2019, as part of its commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the PTE's formation, Arriva North West painted a Bootle-based Alexander Dennis Enviro400 in 1980s Ribble poppy red and white with NBC and Merseyside logos. |
| 出版年： | 2021 |
| 期刊名称： | Buses |
| 卷： | 73 |
| 期： | 797 |
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