 | 2nd Apr 2006 | Big Bus Company London ex KMB S3BL's
Big Bus Company have imported 22 Leyland Olympians from the KMB fleet for their extensive sightseeing tour of London. These buses generally work the 'Blue' tour route although they can appear on the 'Red' tour route.
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 | 23rd Aug 2005 | Citybus 102 and 105 in UK Preservation
102 DE4281 in HK, EUI530 in the UK.
105 DU5866 in HK, D5CTB in the UK.
Both these huge monsters are in preservation in the UK, look out for them at major events and check out the link from my front page to learn more about these amazing machines.
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 | 23rd Oct 2005 | Citybus Hong Kong 106-180
A short introduction to the Citybus, Hong Kong fleet of 11M Olympians in their home environment. It is from this batch of buses that our own megabus and Magic bus fleet come from.
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 | 6th Apr 2006 | Citybus Hong Kong 181-203
More views of the 11M CTB coaches in their home environment
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 | 6th Apr 2006 | Citybus Hong Kong 205-238
Citybus purchased these short 10.4M buses to negotaite some of the winding roads on Hong Kong Island.
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 | 6th Apr 2006 | Citybus Hong Kong 330-350 and ex CLP
A selection of images of the CTB 12M coaches and the first few 12M buses.
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 | 17th Nov 2005 | Citybus Hong Kong 351-395
A small selection from the rest of the 12M Citybus vehicles in the 351-395 range.
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 | 8th Feb 2006 | CLP Olympians in the UK
8 China Light and Power 12M Olympians are now working in the UK, 301 with Cedar Coaches, 304 with Lodge Coaches, 306 with Impact Group, 308 with Patron Travel, 310 with Dons Coaches, 312 with Beestons, 314 with Florida Coaches and 316 with Kinch of Minety.
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 | 25th Sep 2006 | CTB Olympians in the UK (excl Stagecoach)
10 CTB Olympians operated in the UK apart from the examples imported by Stagecoach, 206/207/227 with Wardle, 341 with Mulley of Ixworth, 345 with Plaza, Erdington (pictured with Roadliner, Poole), 378/385 with Herberts, Bedford (not pictured), 381/387 with Stephensons, Essex and 386 with Weardale (not pictured).
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 | 14th Jan 2006 | Dublin Bus Leyland Olympians
Dublin Bus purchased 175 Leyland Olympians with Alexander (Belfast) bodywork and these were delivered between 1990 and 1993. I've now moved all my images of these buses onto my Picasa site, follow the 2nd link "2 My NEW website for newer UK Olympians" to see images of them.
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 | 5th Jul 2005 | First Eastern Counties former CMB Olympians
Photos of the ten non air-con Olympians delivered to China Motor Bus during their spell working in Glasgow. This batch of buses is now based in Norfolk and mainly contracts for poultry factory staff and school runs.
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 | 13th Mar 2008 | From Happy Valley to Prestbury Park
A selection of the former CTB 11M Olympians on racecourse specials in Cheltenham. Happy Valley is the largest and most famous racecourse in Hong Kong and the CTB fleet would have passed there many, many times during their HK careers. Prestbury Park is the racecourse in Cheltenham, home of one of the UK's biggest racing festivals.
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 | 15th Oct 2007 | Jace and Dan's Bus!
CTB 113 (now 13640) has been adopted as the 'pet' machine in the South West Train's fleet. The destination display can show "Jace and Dan's Bus" to show it's status as the favourite bus in the fleet- here it is on the rally circuit.
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 | 17th Nov 2005 | KCRC and NWFB introduction
KCRC (Kowloon Canton Railway Corp.) operate a fleet of 24 Olympians on railway feeder routes. NWFB (New World First Bus) operate many former China Motor Bus routes and vehicles including 25 Olympians.
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 | 30th Apr 2005 | KMB Olympians in the UK (excl Big Bus)
18 former KMB machines started their UK lives working with Stagecoach Manchester on their Magic Bus services. All of these have been displaced with 7 being sold to smaller operators. 12 KMB 3BL Class Olympians are operated by ITG MASS, a schools operator in Yorkshire and Lincolnshire.
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 | 7th Apr 2006 | KMB Part 1 - older S3BL's
A small selection of photos of the non air-con KMB Olympians in the batches up to S3BL372.
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 | 7th Apr 2006 | KMB Part 2 - more S3BL's
Another selection from the KMB S3BL Class of Olympians between S3BL373-S3BL420
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 | 7th Apr 2006 | KMB Part 3 - S3BL421-470
Due to poor early public acceptance of air-con buses KMB changed their policy and ordered this final batch of 50 Leyland Olympians to the non a/c specification.
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 | 17th Nov 2005 | KMB Part 4 - AL Class
A small selection of photos from the KMB AL Class Olympians
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 | 1st Dec 2006 | Left hand drive Olympians
This section contains a variety of left hand drive Olympians; between them they have served San Francisco, Seattle, Portugal, Bagdad, Gibraltar and Egypt!
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 | 30th Apr 2005 | megabus and Magic Bus 13601-13610
Former Citybus 135-139/163-167 at work in the UK as Stagecoach 13601-610 in the megabus and Magic Bus fleets.
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 | 1st Mar 2004 | megabus and Magic Bus 13611-13620
Former Citybus 170/173-176/123/130-132/134 at work in the UK as Stagecoach 13611-13620 in the megabus and Magic Bus fleets.
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 | 16th Nov 2004 | megabus and Magic Bus 13621-13630
Former Citybus 133/140/141/143/145/146/156/204/147/144 at work in the UK as Stagecoach 13621-630 in the megabus and Magic Bus fleets.
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 | 28th Jun 2004 | megabus and Magic Bus 13631-13641
Former Citybus 151/158/150/155/142/148/111-114 at work in the UK as Stagecoach 13631-636/638-641 in the megabus and Magic Bus fleets.
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 | 20th Oct 2004 | megabus and Magic Bus 13642-13654
Former Citybus 116/117/115/149/153/154/157/159-162/168/169 at work in the UK as Stagecoach 13642-13654 in the megabus and Magic Bus fleets.
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 | 17th Mar 2007 | SBS Transit Part One
SBS Transit Leyland Olympians captured at work in March 2007. This batch of 200 made up most of the final Leyland vehicles ever built and SBS9168S is the VERY final Leyland bus manufactured.
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 | 17th Mar 2007 | SBS Transit Part Two
SBS Transit's Leyland Olympians captured at work in November 2009.
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 | 23rd Jun 2007 | Stagecoach (excl megabus and Magic Bus livery)
This collection is for the Stagecoach owned CTB 11M Olympians after they left the megabus and Magic Bus fleets.
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 | 19th Nov 2004 | Stagecoach 14000/239/240 and tri-axles from other angles.
Stagecoach purchased three of their own tri-axle Olympians in 1989, two with 96 coach-type seats and 1 with 110 bus-type seats. This collection also shows megabus.com Olympians from the side, rear and interior angles.
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 | 11th Mar 2006 | Stagecoach South West Trains Olympians
When the trains stop fantastic buses start! Six Stagecoach Olympians are now in a dedicated replacement fleet for sister company South West Trains.
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