28 October 2015

Five Photos: Torpoint Depot September

Having a few days off work is allowing me a bit of timer to go back through all my emails etc and pick up on some planned posts which for one reason or another never actually happened.  One such post was looking at the buses which are in storage at Torpoint. These were all taken towards the end of September by Peter Heath:

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Thanks to Peter for sending the photos in, sorry it has taken so long to post them!

8 comments:

  1. was once a very busy bus depot it had 15 buses working from there once
    then many years on it go down to 6 buses and known a right dumping ground and buses not even fit go on road what a joke

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    1. Oh dear. Where do you get your logic from. It's a disused and surplus depot. The local bus routes are run perfectly sensibly from other depots. It's owners are sensibly using it to store vehicles awaiting disposal while it is on the market for redevelopment.

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  2. has any of these buses been preserved or saved yet? or are they all just going to be scraped. i did hear that most of the buses were up for sale on ebay but im not sure if they have been sold or not.

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  3. Even after all the criticism of the state FD&C kept their buses,it's a shame to see them like this.Hopefully some will enter preservation,and that First Southwest maintain the newer fleet better than in the past.

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    1. Eight of them are in perfectly good condition and are parked up. The rest have been Cani alluded for spares, a perfectly normal and acceptable practice in many bus companies, especially when a complete type of vehicle is nearing the end of its life.
      Pay a visit to Cornwall or Somerset and have a look at the fleet. No one with any objectivity can fail to see the very obvious change.

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    2. first will not change it ways how treat buses ,there should look at stage coach s reg buses all clean and seats like new

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    3. I've seen the painted gaffer tape on their buses in Plymouth. You sound like a broken record.

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  4. Is that lovely looking van going for scrap also. Lol. #Body Wagon

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