BUSWORLD PHOTOGRAPHY

I AM CHRISTOPHER LEACH THE ARTIST. I started this blog so that I can share with everyone my vast collection of transport photographs showing a personal and nostalgic view of the industry with images that span some 45 years taking in the U.K and some of Europe. I have no darkroom and so rather than being the perfectionist after tidying them up I upload the images warts and all, and even those that won't scan squarely or are scratched. In a way it adds age and character. You are all free to download these for your personal use but please remember I still own them and you are not just free to use them without prior permission for any knd of publishing. Click on images to enlarge them and if you want to see more leave your comments or visit my website for the mother-site with galleries including those Buses & Girls: PICTUREWORLD

Monday 17 September 2007

What's more Brum than Brew Eleven? Definately not London Pride


........The MCW Metrobus perhaps.
Not only was it built in Birmingham at Washwood Heath close to Spaghetti Junction another local landmark but the Second-City's most long lived bus reminds me a lot of the Routemaster but in real terms this Brummi survivor was built at a fraction of the cost. This Mark1 example was seen dropping people off outside Saint Chads Church next to the old open-air Bull Ring Market in West Midland's PTA days. The horrible old concrete Bull Ring has gone and been replaced but Travel West Midlands as it is now know still operates many later Mark2 Metrobuses and most are now over twenty-years-old. Of course by then an RM was just about run-in, but you have to admit most of these old production-line marvels are doing pretty well now enjoying their third decade. Now the older Olympians, the Titan and the Bristol VR have all gone we have to rely on these buses for that traditional bit of British street sound, the low pitched Gardner-engine-drone.

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It's Saint Martins Church, not Saint Chads.