Colourful Buses In Sheffield

A rainbow of differently coloured buses in Sheffield - each colour represents a different bus company - because of bus deregulation it is allowed for just about anyone to buy some (often pre-used) buses and operate bus services.

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[Chevelli]

Great vid, always amazing to see how things were.

The vid is from the end of 1990 or begining of 1991, there is a Mk5 Ford Escort at 2:13 and it was launched at Sep 1990.

Cheers from Brazil!!

[citytransportinfo]

@Chevelli Hi Chevelli,

Yes its sometimes around that, or even 1992. I also filmed some of the early stages of the construction of the Sheffield Supertram.

Greetings from London.

[JeffOrnstein01]

Great colorful video. What is the situation like today? Did each company operate wherever it wanted? Often, these situations do not work out in the long run. Service and maintenance become uneven. Like what happened in New York. The private bus companies (e.g. Green Bus Lines, Jamaica Transit, Triboro Coach, New York Bus Service, etc.) were eventually taken over by the MTA because service on many (but not all) of these companies became sub-standard. While 'colorful', service became dismal.

[citytransportinfo]

@JeffOrnstein01

Hi Jeff, I live about 3 hours away and rarely go to Sheffield, so am not sure about the present-day situation. However I would expect that there are fewer bus companies.

Since the early 1990's Britain's bus industry has seen much consolidation with mergers, takeovers etc so that nowadays there are a handful of large companies which cover most of the country plus some smaller local companies.

Simon

[Klingl3r]

Which type are the articulated busses? Like this blue one.

[citytransportinfo]

@Klingl3r

sorry for the delayed reply - I don't know and was hoping that someone else would answer for me! In those days articulated buses were very rare in Britain.

[125or200px]

So many memories from way back when we had the Bendi Buses on City Clipper route,just running around Sheffield with the vidimat ticket machines.The machine was very strange,you would drop in your fare (no change given) and the ticket was an actual print out showing the coins, sometimes even washers and buttons were used by the people who took advantage -)

[125or200px]

Sheffield was rainbow city back then.-)

We had Mainline (red & Yellow,and a few still in cream & brown)) Sheffield Omnibus (cream & blue) Yorkshire Terrier (Yellow & green) Andrews (yellow & blue) Sheafline (white,red,blue).

Also operating in Sheffield was Mick Groves,using old London buses with conductors,Sheffield And District Hulleys of Baslow.Way too many to list,sorry if i forgot any.

[Klingl3r]

@125or200px Ok thanks!

[125or200px]

@Klingl3r

The Bendi Bus was introduced in Sheffield around 1979 and where MANs,The Leylands came later,around 81 i think.

[125or200px]

@citytransportinfo

The 2 main players are now First Group,and Stagecoach.Plus TM Travel. with a few routes.

[125or200px]

@Chevelli

The Escort was brand new,the blue Bendy Bus is advertising Meadowhall,which opened in September `90.

[Klingl3r]

@citytransportinfo From my research I assume they are from Leyland.