Any feelings for any withdrawn bus service?

• SBS9818A

  15 Apr 04, 16:42

  Originally posted by off_service:

  Small history lesson on sv. 59:
  
  Originally operated as a Bishan - Jalan Kayu service. It was later amended to operate between Ang Mo Kio and Jalan Kayu. It became a fully aircon service in 1995. Tibs took over sv 59 in the same year, with Scania L113s as the main fleet.
  
  In 1997, service 59 was extended to Sengkang, renumbered as service 866. The service was given back to SBST after Tibs lost the tender of NEL in 1999. It was then renumbered to service 86.

  I remember the L113s, but didn't it operate Lances too?
• off_service

  15 Apr 04, 17:05

  Originally posted by SBS9818A:

  I remember the L113s, but didn't it operate Lances too?

  The Lances came in only after it was renumbered service 866.
• tranquilice

  16 Apr 04, 17:53

  Originally posted by Yusry:

  Isn't the route of 860 same as 119?

  Yes, except for slight route difference in Sengkang. Service 860 plied one-directional along Punggol Rd, Compassvale Dr and Compassvale Rd towards then Sengkang terminal. Towards Hougang St 21, it plied one-directional along Compassvale Rd and continued via Sengkang East Way.
• tranquilice

  16 Apr 04, 17:55

  Originally posted by off_service:

  If I did not remembered wrongly, service 860 was extended to World Trade Centre Terminal and renumbered as service 865.
  
  Did service 865 use any Bendies back then?

  Yes, you are correct. It was later taken over by SBST and re-numbered service 85.
  
  No, service 865 used MB0405 as main fleet.
• SBS9818A

  16 Apr 04, 17:59

  Originally posted by tranquilice:

  Yes, except for slight route difference in Sengkang. Service 860 plied one-directional along Punggol Rd, Compassvale Dr and Compassvale Rd towards then Sengkang terminal. Towards Hougang St 21, it plied one-directional along Compassvale Rd and continued via Sengkang East Way.

  Partly because SK Terminal was on the roadside?
• tranquilice

  16 Apr 04, 17:59

  Originally posted by off_service:

  Small history lesson on sv. 59:
  
  Originally operated as a Bishan - Jalan Kayu service. It was later amended to operate between Ang Mo Kio and Jalan Kayu. It became a fully aircon service in 1995. Tibs took over sv 59 in the same year, with Scania L113s as the main fleet.
  
  In 1997, service 59 was extended to Sengkang, renumbered as service 866. The service was given back to SBST after Tibs lost the tender of NEL in 1999. It was then renumbered to service 86.

  Correction: Service 59 was extended to Sengkang on Sunday 21 Feb 1999 and re-numbered service 866 on the same day.
  
  One week later, on Sunday 28 Feb 1999, service 88 (started as PAC service, became FAC service in May 1999) was introduced to ply Sengkang, and that was the only SBST service in Sengkang back then.
• tranquilice

  16 Apr 04, 18:08

  Duplicate.
• tranquilice

  16 Apr 04, 18:08

  Duplicate.
• tranquilice

  16 Apr 04, 18:10

  Originally posted by SBS9818A:

  Partly because SK Terminal was on the roadside?

  Yes, when Sengkang terminal first started in June 1998, it was a roadside terminal along Compassvale Rd, then in July 1999, SBST took over the operation in Sengkang and the terminal was re-located to the roadside of Sengkang East Way. Sengkang East Way (towards Sengkang East Rd, after Compassvale Rd) was a dead end back then, as the rest of the road was closed to facilitate NEL construction. Buses then park on both sides of Sengkang East Way. When the temporary interchange was opened, all services were then re-located there.
• SBS9818A

  16 Apr 04, 18:10

  Originally posted by tranquilice:

  Correction: Service 59 was extended to Sengkang on Sunday 21 Feb 1999 and re-numbered service 866 on the same day.
  
  One week later, on Sunday 28 Feb 1999, service 88 (started as PAC service, became FAC service in May 1999) was introduced to ply Sengkang, and that was the only SBST service in Sengkang back then.

  I remember seeing NAC Scanias on the service.
• tranquilice

  16 Apr 04, 18:15

  Duplicate.
• tranquilice

  16 Apr 04, 18:16

  Originally posted by SBS9818A:

  I remember seeing NAC Scanias on the service.

  You mean service 88? Yes, they were deployed in its early days.
• cck_190

  16 Apr 04, 18:35

  Can you tell me the history of Choa Chu Kang Interchange?
• tranquilice

  16 Apr 04, 20:03

  Originally posted by cck_190:

  Can you tell me the history of Choa Chu Kang Interchange?

  I don't remember much. It opened in 1988 or 1989, when the MRT went there.
• cck_190

  16 Apr 04, 20:19

  Originally posted by tranquilice:

  I don't remember much. It opened in 1988 or 1989, when the MRT went there.

  What about the services there back then?Please tell me more...Thanks
• tranquilice

  16 Apr 04, 20:31

  Originally posted by cck_190:

  What about the services there back then?Please tell me more...Thanks

  From my memory, services back in 1989 were 75, 185, 190, 301 and SS7. That's all I can remember.
• cck_190

  16 Apr 04, 20:37

  Originally posted by tranquilice:

  From my memory, services back in 1989 were 75, 185, 190, 301 and SS7. That's all I can remember.

  What was the route of 75? Is it the same 75 today only shortened to BP int?
• tranquilice

  16 Apr 04, 20:52

  Originally posted by cck_190:

  What was the route of 75? Is it the same 75 today only shortened to BP int?

  Yes.
  
  Service 75 route between Choa Chu Kang interchange and Bt Panjang is the same as former service 179 up to the junction of Gangsa Rd. Service 75 was shortened to Bt Panjang with the introduction of former service 179 in 1993.
• freakybuses

  16 Apr 04, 22:03

  Originally posted by tranquilice:

  From my memory, services back in 1989 were 75, 185, 190, 301 and SS7. That's all I can remember.

  Only one feeder svc?
• SBS9818A

  17 Apr 04, 16:13

  Originally posted by tranquilice:

  From my memory, services back in 1989 were 75, 185, 190, 301 and SS7. That's all I can remember.

  And Sv. 185 indirectly caused my dear Sv. 989 to disappear..
• freakybuses

  18 Apr 04, 22:31

  There was once when I took a Volvo B57 with my dad in December 1993 on svc 166... I was quite young then and didn't know that it was the last time I would be taking a Volvo B57... How I wished that time would turn back and cherish my good old kindergarten days on buses...
• cck_190

  18 Apr 04, 22:39

  Originally posted by freakybuses:

  There was once when I took a Volvo B57 with my dad in December 1993 on svc 166... I was quite young then and didn't know that it was the last time I would be taking a Volvo B57... How I wished that time would turn back and cherish my good old kindergarten days on buses...

  Same here..I was too young to remember back then.All I remember was that the last time I took a Tibs Nissan was in 1998-1999 on 187.One day,I noticed that there were no more Nissan on 187
• freakybuses

  18 Apr 04, 22:43

  Originally posted by cck_190:

  Same here..I was too young to remember back then.All I remember was that the last time I took a Tibs Nissan was in 1998-1999 on 187.One day,I noticed that there were no more Nissan on 187

  same for the Hinos when it disappeared during 1994-1995. That was when 851 and 852 got AC buses.
• off_service

  18 Apr 04, 22:51

  Originally posted by freakybuses:

  There was once when I took a Volvo B57 with my dad in December 1993 on svc 166... I was quite young then and didn't know that it was the last time I would be taking a Volvo B57... How I wished that time would turn back and cherish my good old kindergarten days on buses...

  I did not even know there's B57 deployed on 166 before.
• freakybuses

  18 Apr 04, 23:01

  Originally posted by off_service:

  I did not even know there's B57 deployed on 166 before.

  only a minority of the fleet in 166.