Breaking up buses the backbreaking way

            Ex London Country stock that had been purchased by Midland Red North from London Country Southwest in April 1989.  The coaches were Leyland Tiger TRC TL11/2Rs all of which were fitted with the poorly designed, and rather fragile B51-type body from ECW. Although the bodies had been reinforced and strenghtened for London Country, MRN took no time in removing the 7-year old bodies from TL1-4, 7, 14, 21-22, 25-26, 39, and dispatching the chassis's to East Lancashire Coachbuilders for new bus bodies to be fitted, an exercise that extending their lives well into the Arriva era. 

The picture taken on 7th July 1989, shows an engineer in the throes of delicately removing stubborn framing from TL2 (TPC101X) with a dainty little 10lb sledgehammer.  TL25 (WPH125Y) can only look forward to the same treatment, while behind are two Leyland Atlanteans, one of them being an ex Strathclyde PTE example, several of these Alexander bodied AN68s went South of the border in April 1986 to work (mainly in Hatfield) with London Country.

Taken on: June 30, 2010

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