Historical information on buses
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Originally posted by Volvo Olympian:
Is 450 the one from Jurong to Pasir Laba?
Anyway , Svc 950 , 951 , 952 , uses Hispano DAF's back then ....
correct man. 450 is one go the SAFTI of old days if u will
ZYX
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Originally posted by tranquilice:
Service 196 did make its way to Boon Lay interchange when it opened in July 1990. The service was cut short to Buona Vista terminal in June 1992 and then extended to Clementi interchange in Nov 1992.add on:
svc 196 used JRDEp o305s and then later lo2x. pity i was too young then to experince rather new new O305s on 196. no memories of that.. i only can rmbr 196 were having lo2x..which were goooood.
ZYX
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Originally posted by ZYX2005:
all correct
excpet that svc 20 and 90 are stated as JRDEp in busway
and these op from bouna vista ter.
Not sure about service 20 (Bedok - Ghim Moh), remembered Volvo B57 NZMB and Albion Vikings on that service in 1986.I remembered seeing a pic of a Mercedes OF1417 Hawke on service 90 in one of the 1986 old books, but in 1988 I remembered seeing also a Volvo B57 on service 90. Somewhere in 1987-1988 there was a depot transfer I think.
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Originally posted by ZYX2005:
add on:
svc 196 used JRDEp o305s and then later lo2x. pity i was too young then to experince rather new new O305s on 196. no memories of that.. i only can rmbr 196 were having lo2x..which were goooood.
ZYX
LAs were also used on service 196 before, I believed that service 196 was also partial BNDEP controlled too. -
Originally posted by TIB1018B:
Not sure about service 20 (Bedok - Ghim Moh), remembered Volvo B57 NZMB and Albion Vikings on that service in 1986.
I remembered seeing a pic of a Mercedes OF1417 Hawke on service 90 in one of the 1986 old books, but in 1988 I remembered seeing also a Volvo B57 on service 90. Somewhere in 1987-1988 there was a depot transfer I think.
yah man . later 90 went to HGDEP. generally the merc OF417 may be new new to HGDEP also.
as for bus 20 last time majority i see is merc when i sit .but later years lots of volvo b57s as wel. 20 fo course cna confirm is HGDEp in later years after 1988 with mark 2 cameos
ZYX
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Still remember taking TIBS NAC Merc on svc 345, which passes by my house years ago, during 1998.
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Originally posted by Scania N113CRB luver:
Still remember taking TIBS NAC Merc on svc 345, which passes by my house years ago, during 1998.
Hehe , yeah ... those were the days when 179 343 344 345 around ....
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I've got fond memories @ the old Jurong Int.Always travel through and flow there.Remember one service 406 which goes to Chinese Gdn.The bus stop pole mark still exist along the pavement @ Chinese Gdn.Think it would be better if one new service ply there
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I still remember those days when there was Service 220 around to connect Bedok North and Bedok South effectively using mostly CAC N113CRBs. Service 220 was abolished when I started primany 1.
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Originally posted by SBS2695H:
I still remember those days when there was Service 220 around to connect Bedok North and Bedok South effectively using mostly CAC N113CRBs. Service 220 was abolished when I started primany 1.
Merged wif 290 to become 38 -
Qn: Which buses were in HGDEP during the 80s? Remember Volvo B57s, then the Merc OF1417s and MB0305s too...
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Originally posted by vivienlee:
Qn: Which buses were in HGDEP during the 80s? Remember Volvo B57s, then the Merc OF1417s and MB0305s too...
I am not sure, but I think HGDEP had a mixture of Volvo B57s as well as the MB OF1417s. What I remembered was that HGDEP had Volvo MK2, MK3 and MK4 SD buses after that, as well as the Volvo DDs. The Tridants also went into HGDEP in 2001 to replace all the outgoing MB0305s. -
Originally posted by sbst275:
1990 rationalisation, 10 & 165 never entered Jurong New Towns again lol
still have some menories of taking 10 all the way from jurong to tampines and it took, ahem, aorund 2 hours to complete the whole journey :-p -
Can we talk about old bus models also? I may have boarded an O305 once or twice on 28 or 31 when I was very young. I heard that the O305's are quite smooth and similar to the O405's. There was also LO2x, Leyland Atlanteans, etc. Anyone remember them? After all, I was born in 1994 and my favourite fleet will be the fleet in the late 1990s to the early 2000s. There was a great balance between technology and tradition in buses that time.
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i like atlanteans and l02x. =D
merc oso gd but noisy noisy der. lols.
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Originally posted by carbikebus:
I've got fond memories @ the old Jurong Int.Always travel through and flow there.Remember one service 406 which goes to Chinese Gdn.The bus stop pole mark still exist along the pavement @ Chinese Gdn.Think it would be better if one new service ply there
well done i have pix of this mark..lol
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Originally posted by SBS2695H:
Can we talk about old bus models also? I may have boarded an O305 once or twice on 28 or 31 when I was very young. I heard that the O305's are quite smooth and similar to the O405's. There was also LO2x, Leyland Atlanteans, etc. Anyone remember them? After all, I was born in 1994 and my favourite fleet will be the fleet in the late 1990s to the early 2000s. There was a great balance between technology and tradition in buses that time.
very good. the O305 were similair in gearbox to the O405. u probably will have to go Australia now to catch any O305s existing left in the world but dah those too are gg off soon.
the rev diffrentials of Singapore o305s and Hong Kong O305s are diff..u guys ever wonder why? Anyheck i like our O305 reving ptich lor. quite showing that the bus is strong n powerful with a higher revs for biting gear 1 to gear 2 and from biting gear 2 to 3. i hear the hong kong ones like macham the rev so low, the bus sound half dead n not powerful.
a point to note is that older gen bsues definitely have their own unique and sometimes roaring sounds. echoing the point made above about different techhnolgoies, todays EURO IV and EURO V creatures all sound alike. and the mating with standardised gearboxes dun really help with the sounds coming from under the bus...soooo boring de. the oonly proably unqie sounds u cna hear coming from the EURO IV bus is when the bus gearbox is doing some nasty feedback with engine n u hear a grawwwwarrrr sounds lol
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Oh yesh... Sv 240 & 246 looks like adjusted
Old 242 replaced by 154?
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For more information, can see Lee kong Chian Refrence Library
Went in today, Level 11
Take your time to find RSING 388
It includes these following books
1. Bus guides(Mighthy Minds-2003 onwards)(Transit Link-1980s)
2. TIBS/SMRT/SBS/SBST magazines
3. The two books of Singapore Transport History
4. MRT evaluation report/ Bus evaluation report
5. Ans many more...it would 100% make you happy
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For me:
1. LA on Townlink 291 (think in 2000)
2. Lo2X on a JIE svc (taken somewhere in 2002-2003)
3. Mark II (DM NAC) on Service 112. (In 2006)
4. Mark II (DM CAC) on Service 34 (SBS1885H my last mark II ride) -
Originally posted by SBS n SMRT:
For more information, can see Lee kong Chian Refrence Library
Went in today, Level 11
Take your time to find RSING 388
It includes these following books
1. Bus guides(Mighthy Minds-2003 onwards)(Transit Link-1980s)
2. TIBS/SMRT/SBS/SBST magazines
3. The two books of Singapore Transport History
4. MRT evaluation report/ Bus evaluation report
5. Ans many more...it would 100% make you happy
Those books has been there for quite some time liao ... before you even post this...
and I think the first TransitLink guide only came in 1992 onwards , before that is i think just BUS GUIDE itself.
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Originally posted by SBS n SMRT:
For more information, can see Lee kong Chian Refrence Library
Went in today, Level 11
Take your time to find RSING 388
It includes these following books
1. Bus guides(Mighthy Minds-2003 onwards)(Transit Link-1980s)
2. TIBS/SMRT/SBS/SBST magazines
3. The two books of Singapore Transport History
4. MRT evaluation report/ Bus evaluation report
5. Ans many more...it would 100% make you happy
i think i shud go there someday...and take a look
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Originally posted by Volvo Olympian:
Those books has been there for quite some time liao ... before you even post this...
and I think the first TransitLink guide only came in 1992 onwards , before that is i think just BUS GUIDE itself.
Yes it is BUS GUIDE, I am posting these is just for information for people whom liked history about buses.
Found that SMRT really killed TIBS, seen the TIBS magazine, so many new buses, so many new interchanges, so many activities, and so gooood, haha