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RE: Oddities, quirks or little known facts - NK53 TKT - 19 Mar 2016
Does anyone know why Stagecoach 19152 has the Stagecoach logo below the top deck rear window?
RE: Oddities, quirks or little known facts - BusLoverMum - 19 Mar 2016
(19 Mar 2016, 8:37 pm)NK53 TKT wrote Does anyone know why Stagecoach 19152 has the Stagecoach logo below the top deck rear window?
Maybe they couldn't find a tall enough ladder to put it any higher
RE: Oddities, quirks or little known facts - Rapidsnap - 19 Mar 2016
It was from when it was used in the Bus of Britain adverts with 19151. Sure at least one, if not both carried dark blue fleetnumbers above the doors and drivers cab.
RE: Oddities, quirks or little known facts - Rapidsnap - 19 Mar 2016
Here are the adverts...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AedinrT9mCc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnxLB40ikCo
RE: Oddities, quirks or little known facts - NK53 TKT - 20 Mar 2016
(19 Mar 2016, 10:34 pm)GMitchelhill wrote Here are the adverts...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AedinrT9mCc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnxLB40ikCo
Ah, thank you
RE: Oddities, quirks or little known facts - Andreos1 - 20 Feb 2017
I'm not going to pretend I knew this already, but I have just read that Kibblesworth was the location of a test tunnel for the Metropolitan Railway in London.
It was filled in, in the late 1800's.
I've Googled it and there are several comments about it, but all with the same vague detail.
Does anyone know any more about it or even where in Kibby the tunnel is?
RE: Oddities, quirks or little known facts - Andreos1 - 21 Nov 2022
Not a little known fact, but definitely an oddity.
There will be a generation of people who don't and won't know radio frequencies.
Whether it be because of DAB or something else.
95.4 FM
97.1 FM
97-99 FM
252 LW
1089 MW
1152 MW
1215 MW
909 MW
Almost ingrained in my memory.
RE: Oddities, quirks or little known facts - streetdeckfan - 21 Nov 2022
(21 Nov 2022, 12:17 am)Andreos1 wrote 95.4 FM
Is that BBC Newcastle?
RE: Oddities, quirks or little known facts - Andreos1 - 21 Nov 2022
(21 Nov 2022, 12:32 am)streetdeckfan wrote Is that BBC Newcastle?
It is.
And to make it bus related... https://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=142003
https://www.flickr.com/photos/57727182@N08/52444505115/
RE: Oddities, quirks or little known facts - BusLoverMum - 21 Nov 2022
(21 Nov 2022, 12:17 am)Andreos1 wrote Not a little known fact, but definitely an oddity.Two-four-seven... Weather check!
There will be a generation of people who don't and won't know radio frequencies.
Whether it be because of DAB or something else.
95.4 FM
97.1 FM
97-99 FM
252 LW
1089 MW
1152 MW
1215 MW
909 MW
Almost ingrained in my memory.
Predates 1053 and 1089. They changed the frequencies and changed from wavelength to frequency on the late 70s. So there will be generation, not far behind, who won't remember radio 2 being on 1500m long wave, before it was given to R4.
Sigh. They had all the best pervs, back then.
RE: Oddities, quirks or little known facts - streetdeckfan - 21 Nov 2022
(21 Nov 2022, 12:41 pm)Andreos1 wrote It is.
And to make it bus related... https://thetransportlibrary.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=142003
https://www.flickr.com/photos/57727182@N08/52444505115/
It's the only frequency that I know! Probably from all the car journeys we had up to Seahouses listening to Sue Sweeney!
I also remember 105.4 Century FM, but I think we stopped listening to that when it switched to Real Radio. I believe it's now Heart and on different frequency?
I rarely listen to the radio these days, other than when we have TFM/Metro on in the car, but we usually play it over Bluetooth anyway!
I remember switching from Galaxy/Capital back in the day when Steve and Karen left. They're the only radio presenters I can stand listening to, but maybe that's because I've literally been listening to them my whole life!
RE: Oddities, quirks or little known facts - Mark1 - 21 Nov 2022
(21 Nov 2022, 12:17 am)Andreos1 wrote Not a little known fact, but definitely an oddity.
There will be a generation of people who don't and won't know radio frequencies.
Whether it be because of DAB or something else.
95.4 FM
97.1 FM
97-99 FM
252 LW
1089 MW
1152 MW
1215 MW
909 MW
Almost ingrained in my memory.
Long wave radio Atlantic 252 that's a blast from the past.
For a time in the 90s I remember it being very popular helped by not having to change frequency when travelling longer distances.
RE: Oddities, quirks or little known facts - Adrian - 21 Nov 2022
(21 Nov 2022, 12:17 am)Andreos1 wrote Not a little known fact, but definitely an oddity.
There will be a generation of people who don't and won't know radio frequencies.
Whether it be because of DAB or something else.
95.4 FM
97.1 FM
97-99 FM
252 LW
1089 MW
1152 MW
1215 MW
909 MW
Almost ingrained in my memory.
103.4 FM!
RE: Oddities, quirks or little known facts - omnicity4659 - 21 Nov 2022
(21 Nov 2022, 1:16 pm)streetdeckfan wrote I rarely listen to the radio these days, other than when we have TFM/Metro on in the car, but we usually play it over Bluetooth anyway!
I remember switching from Galaxy/Capital back in the day when Steve and Karen left. They're the only radio presenters I can stand listening to, but maybe that's because I've literally been listening to them my whole life!
Back when they moved to Metro, they had more creative control over what they did. I remember "take one for your town" was done over both Galaxy and Metro.
Now they have to conform to the Hits Radio schedule which is quite shit.
RE: Oddities, quirks or little known facts - Jimmi - 21 Nov 2022
(21 Nov 2022, 3:00 pm)omnicity4659 wrote Back when they moved to Metro, they had more creative control over what they did. I remember "take one for your town" was done over both Galaxy and Metro."Local Radio" as a concept is pretty much dead now, almost everything on FM at least is networked across the country aside from the odd show here and there and even those aren't really any different from one another across the country.
Now they have to conform to the Hits Radio schedule which is quite shit.
I vaguely remember frequencies for the North East stations although mine differed from the above as it lined up with Teesside rather than Newcastle,
96.6FM - TFM (think Metro was 97.1FM?)
100.7FM - Century > Real > Heart
103.2FM - Alfa 103.2 > Star Radio
1170MW - Magic 1170
Another buried in my mind from family holidays in Blackpool is 96.5FM which was Wave 96.5 > Radio Wave (now Greatest Hits Radio).
Oddities, quirks or little known facts - Dan - 21 Nov 2022
(21 Nov 2022, 2:11 pm)Adrian wrote 103.4 FM!
The jingles are coming back to me…
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RE: Oddities, quirks or little known facts - Andreos1 - 21 Nov 2022
(21 Nov 2022, 3:00 pm)omnicity4659 wrote Back when they moved to Metro, they had more creative control over what they did. I remember "take one for your town" was done over both Galaxy and Metro.
Now they have to conform to the Hits Radio schedule which is quite shit.
(21 Nov 2022, 5:25 pm)Jimmi wrote "Local Radio" as a concept is pretty much dead now, almost everything on FM at least is networked across the country aside from the odd show here and there and even those aren't really any different from one another across the country.
I vaguely remember frequencies for the North East stations although mine differed from the above as it lined up with Teesside rather than Newcastle,
96.6FM - TFM (think Metro was 97.1FM?)
100.7FM - Century > Real > Heart
103.2FM - Alfa 103.2 > Star Radio
1170MW - Magic 1170
Another buried in my mind from family holidays in Blackpool is 96.5FM which was Wave 96.5 > Radio Wave (now Greatest Hits Radio).
This could be another reason. Other than DAB and Spotify!