(27 Nov 2022, 9:05 pm)Washingtonian wrote As far as I know I think all Olympian batches were the same length. I might be wrong but I'm pretty certain. Loved these buses and the Gardner engined ones too. I used to go on the Cummins engined ones fairly regular when I lived in Houghton when I was very young as they were often used on the X5 or X94 along with the express link Metrobuses. When I moved to Washington the Olympians here were mainly the Gardner engined ones. The Olympian in the video about sounds amazing and still going strong, which is fantastic to see.

Kudos to Johnsons for keeping it going. 

Hit a snow storm drift on the Highway once, coming from Herrington Burn to the Galleries. Driver decided to overtake in the snow... Will have been an X5.

Another time, I somehow convinced a mate that the 185 was the quickest bus from the Galleries to Park Lane. Only because I needed to tick the route off and I knew one of these bad-boys would be on it.