How did you came across 'bus-spotting' and became a bus fan?
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My stories goes way back in 1997. I was a 4 year-old kid and I luv buses eversince. I was first introduced to each bus model slowly. The first time I rode a Volvo B10M DM3500 while it was new in 98' was on Service 30.(My saturday clases are at Bedok and living in old Jurong West Estension) My perm bus from Jurong West was the late Leyland Olympian.
My first Habit ride was in 2000, my first Volvo B10BLE ride was in 2000, my first time spotting good old SBS998Y was in 2001, my first time spotting SBS997A is in 2003 and SBS999U in 2004. I liked them all. But time didn't gave me chance.
I started to find out my permbuses. Their history, and what happened.
Look at me, now. An independent 14 year-old, filled with courage, skill, guts and peservearence. Although I'm a bully victim in school and being a loud shouter in class, I have a special fondness for buses.
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remembered taking 174 when i was in kindergarten. tt time it terminated at ntu n uses NAC mkII... enjoyed taking 174 becos of the old jurong rd stretch... esp on NAC mkII the engine boomed loud, bus vibrated, jerked n swerved vigourously along the winding road, like taking rollercoaster
strong wind blew in n while the bus cheong along the ulu road ... can smell the trees... shiok... loved buses ever since... -
Ever since I was K2. I started looking from the tyres and then to the rims. As I get older I look at the body. Then my bus loving started when I was P2. During my visits to my grandma's house my timing always coincides with SBS997A. Then that special bus aroused me more to this hobby. Apparently I used to be extra slow on riding new buses. It took me till 2001 when I took the Box bendy, and apparently I haven't took any B9TLs yet, suggestinbg how slow I am actually. I long knew which buses were svc. 900 perms, from the days where TIB726Y started on 900 till TIB1049L joined 900.
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for me... when i was young, i love the smell of exhaust fumes....
but i'm not a bus fan sorry -
oh.. so you smell the fumes until your mind is perverticOriginally posted by pervertboi:for me... when i was young, i love the smell of exhaust fumes....
but i'm not a bus fan sorry -
Sv 65 LO3x
SBS9031C i loved most
took it again last yr during IMF -
-watches thread carefully-
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i thought nerds or trekkie fans are bad...
u guys are... mmm... whats the word.. whats the word.. someone help me here ? -
For me, it dated back to almost 8 years ago when I was just a Primary 1 kid. I used to take the school bus (I can still remember it's rego - CB 4219P, and it's NAC) from my school to home everyday. I take school buses everyday until I was Primary 6 when I then stopped taking the school bus.
I could still remember my first ride (not sure when my first bus ride really is but this is what I only know) on the then Singapore Bus Services Bus, SBS 3685E on Service 225W. This happened when I was in Primary 1 and I had to be sent home because of fever, so I took this bus with my mom.
In Primary 6, as I mentioned, I stopped taking the school bus, but the public transport instead. First, it would not come obvious, but as the days go by, I noticed a bus which is quite familiar and that I see it everyday. The bus is SBS 3721J, and it may be how it became my favourite bus.
I started taking down bus regos when I was a to-be-Secondary-1 student. Last year, during New Year's Day, I was learning how to take the bus and the MRT to my school and back when I happened to be on SBS 0933J on Service 18. I said, "Nice rego." while on the bus.
In the same year in year 2006, I was searching for more on buses (was searching for SBST articulated buses, which had been sold to NZ) when I came across this forum. I joined and soon, I opened up more accounts on other bus forums.
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NAC 190 double decker and AC 190 , NAC 302 during my primary sch days.. during SBS days..
then 179 got bendy come out always purposly avoid sbs and take 179 home...
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Yeah , those days were cool..Originally posted by patdog112:NAC 190 double decker and AC 190 , NAC 302 during my primary sch days.. during SBS days..
then 179 got bendy come out always purposly avoid sbs and take 179 home...
I miss the old service 179 especially -
yah...realli missed double deck 190 n strider 67... more comfortable w more seats n more shiok than today's bendies(with the bloddy hard seats n erratic airconditioning for its long journey is super torturing)....Originally posted by patdog112:NAC 190 double decker and AC 190 , NAC 302 during my primary sch days.. during SBS days..
then 179 got bendy come out always purposly avoid sbs and take 179 home...
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I like to see public buses SBS and TIBS buses on the streets since 4 yrs old. It was at my grandma's hse. As my grandma's hse is near the bus stop, there were buses passing by all day long. I always ran to a spot where I could see the buses clearly, the bus service number, the sound of the buses since the door of my grandma's hse was open and I was bored.
In addition, it was at my grandma's hse when I read Transitlink Bus guide in the year 1992. The front cover showed a Lakeside MRT station with a 154 dd bus in the front at the bus stop. If I didn't rmb wrongly, there was a 187 bus behind 154. I read it when I visited my grandma's hse weekly. Unknowingly, somehow the routes got into my mind.
Later on, I chanced upon sg bus forums, which made me realised that the difference between bus spotting fan and bus route lover. I am not the type who is interested in the type of sound engine, gearboxes inside the bus. However, I focus on different kinds of bus routes especially trunk services cos they r simply cool, long and pass by many towns. Anyway, thanks to sg bus forums. -
Hmm, yeah, I have that edition too, and i bought the Transitlink guides all the way till now. Except for one or two editions which seemed not updated from the previous version.Originally posted by tanjun:-edited quote-
In addition, it was at my grandma's hse when I read Transitlink Bus guide in the year 1992. The front cover showed a Lakeside MRT station with a 154 dd bus in the front at the bus stop. If I didn't rmb wrongly, there was a 187 bus behind 154. I read it when I visited my grandma's hse weekly. Unknowingly, somehow the routes got into my mind.
Later on, I chanced upon sg bus forums, which made me realised that the difference between bus spotting fan and bus route lover. I am not the type who is interested in the type of sound engine, gearboxes inside the bus. However, I focus on different kinds of bus routes especially trunk services cos they r simply cool, long and pass by many towns. Anyway, thanks to sg bus forums.
I like bus routes first, then technical stuff. It was during the days of Volvo B57s that i started till some years back, the Habit which revived the hobby... -
erm, i once find that buses are smelly and old, but after wards, when i was about 15, i start to find that they are very interesting and i started researching on it...
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i was a bus fan when i was young..
SG Buses to overseas buses
Some things that attract me to buses..
` the bus guides.. started off from the colourful SBS Bus guides...
` the design of the buses (i like the Original Leyland Lynx design..)
` different bus models or makes - Volvo, Scania, MB, Hino, UD, Renault PR100.2
but one thing that i hate is the old Leyland Atlantean AN68/2R,
which i nicknamed its as "the Jerk" as it jerks alot! -
For me:
It was due to taking Sv 82 to my grandmother's house since I was young. Remembered taking those MK3 on Sv 82 when I was going home and was packed with people due to the Thais who boarded at Golden Mile Complex and going to Punggol. When it was under TIBS rule, took a few of the bus models like Scania ELBO(NAC) etc. The most interesting was the box bendy. The first time I took it when I was going home and saw two Sv 82 buses at the bus stop. One was a Scania(with not many people), the other was the box bendy(crowded) and decided to take the box bendy which was quite fun.
Rego: TIB853M
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Are u from the ISD?Originally posted by Ferret:-watches thread carefully- -
I did remembered Service 181 from TIBS before it was re-routed and renamed 961. Well, missed the Leyland Olympian NACs, my usual buses. While I was still Primary 2. I did 'copycat' the bus sounds and make them myself. How? I hear them and try to hum bus sounds. Well, I still hum bus sounds when I'm bored. And sometimes, i hum at school. Well, I imagined myself driving a bus since kidergarten and did my own destos on recycled paper. I'm thinking of putting it up at a site for you all to view. Well, I put in my ideas by thinking what if a strider is on 334? What if there's a strider on 243? And sometimes, I imagined Bendies as chartered buses! I remembered drawing it out in P1. I remembered drawing Soon Chow Bendies in 2001 and drawing Strider Bendies. A lot of things I did for bus love.
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Yup. Different types of bus will give out different bus sounds. Besides, these sounds are unique to SBST and SMRT buses.Originally posted by tintinspartan:I did remembered Service 181 from TIBS before it was re-routed and renamed 961. Well, missed the Leyland Olympian NACs, my usual buses. While I was still Primary 2. I did 'copycat' the bus sounds and make them myself. How? I hear them and try to hum bus sounds. Well, I still hum bus sounds when I'm bored. And sometimes, i hum at school. Well, I imagined myself driving a bus since kidergarten and did my own destos on recycled paper. I'm thinking of putting it up at a site for you all to view. Well, I put in my ideas by thinking what if a strider is on 334? What if there's a strider on 243? And sometimes, I imagined Bendies as chartered buses! I remembered drawing it out in P1. I remembered drawing Soon Chow Bendies in 2001 and drawing Strider Bendies. A lot of things I did for bus love. -
The colourful service guides brought me in. Slowly I am wondering why there are no merz on certain service? Why there are no MK IIs on certain service? Slowly Slowly get interested in buses. One fine day when I type "Singapore Buses" on the serach bar and I found this place.
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My old house faces the main road in Bishan. Everytime when a bus wiss its way out of the bus stop i would run to the living room window to see what bus was it, sometimes also seeing the rego. As i do more spotting from my house window, S56 LAs became 9030E 9142R 9144K 9148A 9150S 9668R (ya 9668 went bndep one big round and came back to amdep on former perm) S410 NAC Merz became NAC Scania (or vice versa?) I've see UDs zooming past Bishan Rd with no freaking idea was service it was on (i now know its S13). The rest of the services were just WA and DM Merz
Moved to Toa Payoh 10 years ago, Merz became Scanias and a whole lot of other stuff due to the variety of models at Toa Payoh Int. Started to spot my S238 NAC Scania perm fleet for a start then went the other TPY feeders. Noticed the transition from the old int to the temp and back to the current one. Toa Payoh Feeders from NAC Scania to partial Merc fleet (NAC conversion period) to OAC Scania to O405s. S159 from full Merc fleet to partial DM3500 fleet (2836-283
, S163 from TIBS days to SBST CAC Merz fleet, 88 from NAC Scanias to batch 3 VOs, S31 from VO2x to Mk3s, S90/S157 from LO2x to NAC Scania/LO3x.. erm the rest basically didnt change much
Chanced this place thru a friend in late 2003 and understood what does a 'bus spotter' mean. What does it mean to catch a cameo, knowing what's the cameo that kinda stuff.
Throughout the years i collected services guides as they seem something different from the TL guides.
I see from the earlier posts that some of you like buses of a certain aspect - service guides, models, technical stuff etc... For me i'm into scheduling and deployment. Very dynamic when it comes to xovers as you never fail to see/understand how sbst (more into sbst than smrt) is able to pluck the bus from a parent service and do xover to another service.
Say for example the premium services. Judging from operating hours its quite obvious its done by a xover bus. Checking the service it xover from is the more interesting part. At first I thought its a feeder bus as the timing kinda matches certain lower-than-peak demand for some services. They used trunk services instead
Then sometimes you see me commenting fleet changes in the redeployment thread before the actual day is because i did the online timetables in advance. One example is the S48 fleet addition from this Sunday.
Very interesting and unique hobby. I find myself coming a long way man.
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Eh 9631X also 56er.Originally posted by service_238:My old house faces the main road in Bishan. Everytime when a bus wiss its way out of the bus stop i would run to the living room window to see what bus was it, sometimes also seeing the rego. As i do more spotting from my house window, S56 LAs became 9030E 9142R 9144K 9148A 9150S 9668R (ya 9668 went bndep one big round and came back to amdep on former perm) S410 NAC Merz became NAC Scania (or vice versa?) I've see UDs zooming past Bishan Rd with no freaking idea was service it was on (i now know its S13). The rest of the services were just WA and DM Merz -
oops wrong regoOriginally posted by Scania:Eh 9631X also 56er. i know its a BN 17. -
9668R was amdep 72-->bndep 17-->amdep 56.Originally posted by service_238:oops wrong rego i know its a BN 17.