(29 Oct 2024, 1:46 pm)Washingtonian wrote Was that one of the Deltas that GNE acquired from Ok Travel with the high back red seats? Also what condition did the bus look to you? Just wondering if it's heading for preservation or for scrap.

(29 Oct 2024, 2:20 pm)Andreos1 wrote I remember the brown dashboards standing out a mile.

(30 Oct 2024, 1:22 am)Rapidsnap wrote It looked in stored condition. And yes it's ex OK Travel one.

Also uniquely the OK Travel Delta front section was higher up resulting in an extra step at the front entrance (and additional folding flaps on the door) whilst one step was needed to reach the rear part.

Standard Delta interior - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photogenic/51169260954
OK Delta Interior (with seats removed) - https://www.flickr.com/photos/77351420@N04/8322274331 (photo by Sean Blair)

Standard Delta Entrance with Doors Open - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photogenic/50051000158
OK Delta Entrance with Doors Open (you can see the extra step with the lights on it) - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photogenic/51168484101

Standard Delta Entrance with Closed Doors - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photogenic/26676506206
OK Delta Entrance with Closed Doors - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gjm-photogenic/51169252014

(04 Nov 2024, 9:34 pm)Washingtonian wrote Yeah I think the seat backs were the same colour as the dashboard. I think some of the Volvo B6s and B10s had similar interiors

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Thanks for this. Never noticed the entrances of the ex OK ones were higher up. Would be great to see this vehicle preserved as it is quite unique and there aren't many ex OK Travel buses in preservation that I know of. Was a big fan of the Deltas too. Great to ride and they could shift, and they had rock solid bodywork 

(05 Nov 2024, 12:44 pm)Andreos1 wrote I put them in the same category of the 158 train. 
Modern, sleek and an improvement on the majority of 80s naffness that preceded it.

(05 Nov 2024, 1:24 pm)Storx wrote Not sure I relate on that one mind. Personally I'd have the Wright Pathfinder / Endurance as the Class 158 train, with the Solar/Eclipse being the Class 170 which is basically the more modern again Class 158 are both are workhorses.

Almost ironic that the ironing board seats in modern trains are as good as Streetlite's so the trend has kept up.

The Optare Delta / Scania N113's are more like the Class 156 imo. The last of the old, let's say but much better than the crap that preceded them.

(06 Nov 2024, 1:32 pm)Andreos1 wrote Maybe it's because they appeared around the same time, were a step change in what had been before - thinking the tinted windows, angles to bodywork etc.
I remember thinking the carpet backed seats on the Deltas were a step up as well. 

I'd have ridden them both in and around the same time too (91/92) so must have seen enough at the time to make me think like that.

(05 Nov 2024, 1:24 pm)Storx wrote Not sure I relate on that one mind. Personally I'd have the Wright Pathfinder / Endurance as the Class 158 train, with the Solar/Eclipse being the Class 170 which is basically the more modern again Class 158 are both are workhorses.

Almost ironic that the ironing board seats in modern trains are as good as Streetlite's so the trend has kept up.

The Optare Delta / Scania N113's are more like the Class 156 imo. The last of the old, let's say but much better than the crap that preceded them.

(06 Nov 2024, 7:44 pm)L469 YVK wrote I'd say the Volvo Olympian at the time was way better than the Scania N113. Always a smooth ride on them with the humbling tune of the ZF / Volvo D10 combo! Although the Cummins L10/ZF combo in the Arriva Northumbria ex London & Country and M3** FTY batch was quite tuneful too!

(06 Nov 2024, 8:41 pm)Storx wrote Aye can't argue. The Scanias had awful engine idling problems aswell which never got fixed. 

The Olympian is the equivalent of the Class 125 imo. Proper workhorse and I wouldn't be surprised if a few would've still been on the road if DDA didn't kill them off.

(06 Nov 2024, 9:22 pm)L469 YVK wrote They were cracking motors combined with the stunning Palatine II bodywork!

Don't know what eventually happened to S833 OFT, but such a shame that none of the Go Coastline S*** FVK/OFT or Northumbria M*** FTY / P*** CCU got preserved!

They were always part of my childhood! Regular rides on the 356 and occasional 306 onboard (7)410-(7)420. North Tyneside was awash with Volvo Olympians at one time when Go Coastline moved 3830-33 from South Shields to Percy Main for the 308, then ironically at the same time, Arriva Blyth Depot ending up with some or all of 7370-76 (7377 was kept as spare at Hexham) when Hexham got the Tridents. Remember my first rides on them on the 308, one (I believe was (7)372) carrying the dark blue Pennine Windows livery, and the other still bearing NMS colours with 602 branding and a then newly fitted Wayfarer 3 ticket machine.

(24 Nov 2024, 12:54 pm)Andreos1 wrote https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14j7L1T5po/

3738 entering preservation.