Bus Memories from the past
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Waiting for MB Citaro DD..
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When Jurong Interchange was closed and moved to Boon Lay.
Route rationalisations begin...
sv10 > Clementi
sv30 > Boon Lay via Corporation
sv154 > Boon Lay via Corporation/Chinese Garden area
sv157 > Boon Lay
sv174 > extended from NTI to Boon Lay
sv196 > shortened to Buona Vista
sv197 > shortened to Jurong East
sv198 > Start from Bukit Merah to Boon Lay and via Jurong East/West Ave 1
i tink i still have the brochure, must go dig...
Jurong Bus interchange was a classic where the bus park was just next to the interchange...
When the interchange closed, the bus park was still in operation... -
MBO305 ran on a lot of services...
Last few were on Eunos feeder, sv147,154... -
Originally posted by SMB128B:
I still miss my svc 371
You do have Sv 163M right? How is it different from old 371?
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Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:
You do have Sv 163M right? How is it different from old 371?
Erratic schedule...
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Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:
You do have Sv 163M right? How is it different from old 371?
It's nostalgia bro.
163M is different in quite some ways.
It is not a real feeder svc, does not ply where 371 ply, and most important of them all is 163M has only one bus that differs everyday.
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Anyone still remembered in the mid 1990s' there is a special 'device' at the exit of every 199 perm buses? Till now I am still wondering what is the purposes of that 'device'.
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Originally posted by Jeek:
For some funny reason I really miss the Scania N113CRB CACs. Used to ride them on service 28. Also miss the Volvo B10M Mark IIs I've ridden once in awhile on Hougang services.
I also remember a VO3X B2 on service 28 with full seating at the bottom deck, and I remember 9484D and 9452X had the frame-like thinggy on the exterior for quite a long time.
Back then I dreaded riding VO2X on service 93. Now I kinda miss them. The most recent time I've ridden one was on service 193 in Jurong, while I was still in my first few months of NS after BMT.
To be honest I don't miss the Leyland Olympians. Didn't really like them at all. Used to take 143 and always hoped to get an O405 instead.
And also remember Mercedes-Benz O305s on 152 and later on 28.
All fairly recent I guess. I'm only 24. Still a little boy. Not a lot of memories...
152 & 28 got O305 before? I remember only LA and LO2X.
Cheers.
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Actually yeah, might be LA or LO2X instead. Got confused with the bodywork... I didn't really take note of the NAC DDs back then, was focused mainly on the VO3X.
*Just checked on sgwiki. Looks like only one LA permed on 28 and the rest were LO2X. No O305s at all. Only know for sure there was once I rode on a different-sounding NAC DD on 28, might be the LA. The rest all sounded the same so probably all LO2X. Sorry for the confusion.
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Originally posted by SGCar:
152 & 28 got O305 before? I remember only LA and LO2X.
Cheers.
in toa payoh only 143 sometimes 157 had 0305 dd on service. I think 0305 come from jurong depot 26 from hougang/defu depot. but almost DDs bus that service toa payoh were leyland buses even SD bus also leyland
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I remember when i was working at MBFC for projects, I used to take 133M often. I just went there yesterday and suddenly missed 133M. I never understood then why the Scania DD was deployed on this service. One day it had a dd, and then no down grade to Sd nothing.. Just withdrawn.
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Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:
I remember when i was working at MBFC for projects, I used to take 133M often. I just went there yesterday and suddenly missed 133M. I never understood then why the Scania DD was deployed on this service. One day it had a dd, and then no down grade to Sd nothing.. Just withdrawn.
after the mrt has direct link to the basement of the casino entrance then the service withdraw no enough passegers to support it and it a repeat of 133 do.
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Does anyone remember the tam pines services that went to st 91 inside of ITE and Tampines industrial estate..?
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Originally posted by wsy1234:
in toa payoh only 143 sometimes 157 had 0305 dd on service. I think 0305 come from jurong depot 26 from hougang/defu depot. but almost DDs bus that service toa payoh were leyland buses even SD bus also leyland
I dun think 143 and 157 had 0305s before.
For 157, it used to be under dual BBDEP if I am not wrong and there were LAs and Volvo MK3s deployed. It was later in Oct 1993 that 157 went under JRBP and the LAs changed to LO2x and Volvo MK3s totally withdrawn from this service.
26 was all the while under HGDEP in the past and hence 0305s and Volvo MK3 were deployed even though it plies to Toa Payoh. There were also MK4 deployed on 26 before for a short while. Can't remember when 26 moved to TPDEP/BRBP controlled?
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Originally posted by Acx1688:
When Jurong Interchange was closed and moved to Boon Lay.
Route rationalisations begin...
sv10 > Clementi
sv30 > Boon Lay via Corporation
sv154 > Boon Lay via Corporation/Chinese Garden area
sv157 > Boon Lay
sv174 > extended from NTI to Boon Lay
sv196 > shortened to Buona Vista
sv197 > shortened to Jurong East
sv198 > Start from Bukit Merah to Boon Lay and via Jurong East/West Ave 1
i tink i still have the brochure, must go dig...
Jurong Bus interchange was a classic where the bus park was just next to the interchange...
When the interchange closed, the bus park was still in operation...Add on 165 amended from Jurong to Clementi.
And I think all the 24x 25x series were amended to Boon Lay except for 241 which amended to Jurong East instead (eventually renumbered to 331 and later withdrawn after Teban Gardens terminal shut down).
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Originally posted by Acx1688:
MBO305 ran on a lot of services...
Last few were on Eunos feeder, sv147,154...0305s were very common on HGDEP operated services, as well as a few from AMDEP...
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Was the old service 1 (Changi Village to Delta fringe carpark) under BNDEP, HGDEP or BBDEP? I remember Albion Vikings on this route followed by a short term upgrade to MK2s just before it's withdrawal in Dec 1989.
390 also. Dunno which depot operated when it was still with Albion Vikings? But for sure 390 went to full BNDEP once upgraded to FAC.
Or did BNDEP took in any Volvo MK2s for a short while in 1989 before the Scania N113CRBs rolled into SBST fleet?
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Now I remember. I did indeed ride a Mercedes-Benz O305, but it was either on service 153 or 165. Not 28. It was definitely an O305 though, I remember the engine sound and there are O305s recorded on youtube. Don't think I've ridden on an LA before, so pretty much only ridden on one O305 and quite a few LO2X (on 28). O305 has a very nice engine sound though.
Were the LO2X manual? Sounded like it...
It was also on a Hougang service that I got to ride on a B10M Mark II. First and last time. Sigh.
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Actuali have SBS books to relieve your memories...
*omb pix
*jt pix
These 2 books are REFERENCE books in National library...
If anyone is interested, PM me please... -
Originally posted by BusAnalayzer:
Does anyone remember the tam pines services that went to st 91 inside of ITE and Tampines industrial estate..?
service 68.
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This is the classic...
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Originally posted by SBS8676Z:
I dun think 143 and 157 had 0305s before.
For 157, it used to be under dual BBDEP if I am not wrong and there were LAs and Volvo MK3s deployed. It was later in Oct 1993 that 157 went under JRBP and the LAs changed to LO2x and Volvo MK3s totally withdrawn from this service.
26 was all the while under HGDEP in the past and hence 0305s and Volvo MK3 were deployed even though it plies to Toa Payoh. There were also MK4 deployed on 26 before for a short while. Can't remember when 26 moved to TPDEP/BRBP controlled?
143 had 0305s in fact they were brand new deployment together with alexranda bodied LA. license plate start from 70xx and two 71xx the windows and front wind screen look like the new LO. the only things is the timing of the 0305s there are only 5 or 6 buses compare LA. but in the 90s brand new LO2x and air-con SD 405s and air-con LO3x take over the whole fleet of 143. 26 DD 0305s license plate start from 26xx also had SD air-con 405s take over in the 90s. 157 had one or two 305 before very rare. 157 had Volvo B57 SD and Leyland Victory Mk2. 157 had mostly leyland and Mec and Scania N113CRB even in the 90s mostly LO2x and air-con SD 405, n113 air-con until very late then have superbus LO3x not even volvo version until later years 2000s. one thing to note 143 always has brand new buses deployed for service now also never change.
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70s and 80s mostly leyland victory buses in toa payoh, in fact toa payoh like now has a lot of scania buses that was n113 non-air and air-con version in the 90s like now is k230ub. And a lot of O 405 buses. and now citaro going to make up number like 405 before.
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Originally posted by Jeek:
Now I remember. I did indeed ride a Mercedes-Benz O305, but it was either on service 153 or 165. Not 28. It was definitely an O305 though, I remember the engine sound and there are O305s recorded on youtube. Don't think I've ridden on an LA before, so pretty much only ridden on one O305 and quite a few LO2X (on 28). O305 has a very nice engine sound though.
Were the LO2X manual? Sounded like it...
It was also on a Hougang service that I got to ride on a B10M Mark II. First and last time. Sigh.
153 O305 DD was already old when it appeared on 153. I have seen non-air volvo olympian appeared on 153 and 31 before. LO2X was automatic gearbox and both LA and LO2x i think was the same type of gear box. sound like manual but in fact was auto.
LA was very rocking compare to LO2x. and the older LA had semi-auto gear box which found in service old 159 (using CTE to old AMK interchange),old 140,143 and sometime 157, old 56 and old 141(use to be express service to shenton way and loop back to toa payoh) old 140 (express service, toa payoh to orchard loop back to toa payoh) old 56 (toa payoh to bishan) and 142 also use to have very old LA in service. if now SBST can bring back 140 express and extend it to AMK, i am sure this service can help out in MRT problem.
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Originally posted by wsy1234:
153 O305 DD was already old when it appeared on 153. I have seen non-air volvo olympian appeared on 153 and 31 before. LO2X was automatic gearbox and both LA and LO2x i think was the same type of gear box. sound like manual but in fact was auto.
VO2X u mean 72xx series?
sv31 has initial allocation form SBS7280 - 7286