| A selection of my photos of the standard double-decker at Derby for many years, the Roe-bodied Daimler Fleetline, sometimes knicknamed "the Roe Nasty"! |
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XCH427G, Derby 227, waits for departure to Littleover Lane in the Morledge, on route 153 |
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UCH 212G at Derwent Hospital on the 27A, with driver and conductress John & Ann Lacey, a rare husband and wife team. Long gone are the days of crew operation! |
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I've twiddled the sideblind to something appropriate on 228 - crews could seldom be bothered with this facility and it was often left "white blank"! |
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XCH 428G, Derby 228 at St. Alban's Road terminus, with driver Geoff Turner |
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CRC 245J. one of the first batch of restyled Roe bodies, much more modern, seen later in its life in revised livery, with the Morningmist grey extended down to the top of the lowerdeck windows. The scene is Old Chester Road, terminus of long-defunct part-day service 4A |
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XCH 437G, Derby 237 stands outside The Manor Hospital on Uttoxeter road, now demolished, having turned at the island after setting down passengers at City Hospital on the opposite side of the road, on a very bleak snowy Saturday. The service route 42 only ran at visiting times. |
UCH 210G on the 39 Victory Road workmen's service, another part-day duty, seen outside the famous Rolls Royce factory on Victory Road |
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