(03 Jan 2025, 8:58 am)L469 YVK wrote Don't know if anyone has seen the comments on this page about the recent photos posted of the Northumbria Palatines!
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Anyone got any "whacky races" / fast ride stories from any NE operator about Leyland / Volvo Olympians, MCW Metrobuses, Deltas, B10BLE's, Cityzens? Anyone been lucky enough to be riding (or driving) a fast dead run with the saloon lights dimmed and the blinds blanked?
Early/mid 90s:
Leyland Lynx on the 194 or 294 between Usworth School and Follingsby Roundabout were always special when it was running late or the driver fancied a longer break at Heworth.
Think I've previously mentioned the 194 and Redby 13 being in competition and those two having races/overtaking each other on the road approaching the tunnel on Station Road at Penshaw.
Late 90s/early 00s
Can remember the last X94 picking up a pickled me from the Burn Inn, Houghton and it following the 194 route from Shiney Row back towards the Galleries because the driver felt sorry for me.
There was the time a 777 ran dead with me and mate on to Chester in the snow once.
It was the last one and terminated in Birtley. The evening section was contracted to Stanley Travel, but they were snowed in. So lights off, blinds blanked and dropped off outside the Civic Centre in Chester.
The last two were on Nationals.