From: Cymru Coastliner Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 7:35 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Crosville Wales D81 VCC
>A blast from the past shows Crosville Wales 'Little Dragon' MMM81 - D81 VCC in >Rhyl bus station (in the days when we had two! The other one can just be >glimpsed across the road in the background and was fully covered over with a >roof). The bus had just completed a run on route 13 from Llandudno, nowadays >renumbered 12 >and was one of a batch of 21 Mercedes L608D's bought to replace >Bristol VRTs on the route. This was amongst my very first bus photos and dates >from July 1990. I took my very first bus photo a year previously in July 89. > >Steve (ps Sorry Simon.... couldn't resist!) There’s no denying how important these buses were to Crosville Wales – and many other companies – at the start of the deregulation era. But I still remember my utter dismay when one of these turned up at the stop in Colwyn Bay to take me to Llandudno...and the things just multiplied over time. A big shift downwards as far as I’m concerned from VRTs, Leyland Nationals and Lodekkas..... Oh well. That was progress I suppose. Simon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Welsh Bus Photographs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/welsh-bus-photographs?hl=en.
