Comments on: An unusual sight, from West Offices

By: Woody

Woody — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:29:35 +0000

BRB was in the building opposite. The last time the buses used that route would be 1991/2 when Rougier Street was flooded.

By: YorkStories

YorkStories — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:56:22 +0000

Thanks Andy - I now know the scheme you mean.

By: Andy Ottaway

Andy Ottaway — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:34:19 +0000

EYMS were indigo and primrose - much nicer than the current scheme, but the NBC Poppy Red was such a shock to the system. There are a few EYMS buses on the Heritage circuit in the old colours, and as York was served by East Yorkshire there should be photos of them in the City.

By: YorkStories

YorkStories — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 19:50:59 +0000

What colour was the EYMS livery? Red buses are I think more aesthetically pleasing (as are red phone boxes and red post boxes) than any of those purple beasts which have been roaming our streets recently!

Elsewhere on this website is a page from some years back featuring many of the ad-covered buses of the early 80s – more photos taken by my dad (rambling nostalgic commentary by me):
http://www.yorkstories.co.uk/miscellany/1980s_buses.htm

By: Andy Ottaway

Andy Ottaway — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:36:02 +0000

The bus livery looks like it is the Poppy Red of the National Bus Company - so not unlike “the ubiquitous livery of First, Arriva and Stagecoach”.

(As a Hull lad, I watched as the NBC destroyed the perfectly good EYMS livery by forcing a switch to the same Poppy Red).

By: drake Richards

drake Richards — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:45:16 +0000

interesting pic never seen a bus here or the gates open .lovely old red bus harks back to a time when a city’s bus service was usually unique to that city and not the ubiquitous livery of First, Arriva and Stagecoach