Which age are u when u start to love buses or bus routes?

kengkia SG

hi fellow bus route lover.. Surprised

kengkia SG

i fell in love with bus at age of 3 or 4 when my mother always keep taking me to bus and sub-sequently at first i like the bus engine if o305 and leyland atlentant(duuno spelled correctly anot) and oso the leyland olympian and the breeze is just..... Smile then the bus route then now the models of bus and the turning of bendies...like the whole bus just wanna fall on its side lyke that..so style..

Lord_Of_Hayan SG

Leyland Atlantean Smile

Urroh SG

I like buses since 1985.. when i was very young about 4.... still can remember most old bus models.. so i got feeling for most old buses.. Smile

Lord_Of_Hayan SG

Same. I miss the old days. Laughing But they will never come back Shocked .

Hey, btw, i happen to have a copy of this Midtown Madness 2, although its with a distant realtive of mines, but i have it installed on my laptop (boss dont know!). I drove the ARRIVA London's Leyland Olympian, the sound reminds me of the old SBS ones.............. Crying or Very sad

Lord_Of_Hayan SG

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Volvo Olympian SG

Hmm , I like to see the shiny orange/yellow rims on old TIBS Buses last time Smile Very Happy

JJxJJ SG

liked buses since p2! always took sv17 to school.. still remember the regos..

31L..36Z..56R...57M...60C-65P... and i remember 2614 cameo-ing on tt service in 98'!

Scania N113CRB luver SG

I loved buses since im Sec1 abit late liao. Btw my favourite service was 176. Just pray that 176 will get some Volgren 0405G. I loved this route because it passes by my late beloved hometown Hillview Avenue. Im still "mourning" over the loss of the Hillview HDBs, i grew up there, so many childhood memories! Crying or Very sad From a once buzzling town became of whats little known as a flatland of grass and trees. It was demolished from last year until this year. I've liked coaches since sec1 too, when i took a Scania coach to Malaysia. Mr. Green

Volvo Olympian SG

Hmm , if only 176 is WLDEP then there is a chance to see Volgren Bendy on 176 Very Happy

Hmm .... The Hillview Flat's there ..... used to pass by there many times but now we can only see plants and trees and grass. Looks so empty. The Roundabout area there use to be a carpark entrance but now the entrance is no longer there Sad

SBS BUSES LOVER SG

yeah , hillview was very peaceful .

Scania N113CRB luver SG

Ya the roundabout is also home to the nice roti prata there! The only remains is the rock wall that used to form part of the coffeeshop. There is also another entrance to another carpark , the entrance is near the rubbish bin. Anyway i've been there when it was under demolition. It was LOUD! All the debris raining down and all the hammeringI also got the video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4nhHnthxco Its very laggy, i dun know why.
Just hope that 176 is swopped with 75 and becomes woodlands depot controlled. BTW, anyone used to lived in hillview avenue block 12? I used to live on the 15th floor!

SBS BUSES LOVER SG

block 8 ! Mr. Green

Scania N113CRB luver SG

yo neighbour! If im not wrong ur block is the last one to go. Me and me cousins block were the first to go. Crying or Very sad There's one block i see was very " ke lian" saw the block being chopped up, remaining only a small part.

Volvo Olympian SG

In fact i have seen quite a number of blks there being demolish Crying or Very sad

Scania N113CRB luver SG

I have some pics of the blocks being demolished. When i was there blocks 8 and 9(should be, or is it 7?) is still untouched. Sadly my block(12) was no longer there, it was only a heap of debris.......... Crying or Very sad
This is where my block used to be, i presumed......

Block one being demolished(Nice bread store and Dr Ong clinic and also my primary school drop off point)

A Komatsu excavator used for demolition (PC200 maybe, with pulverizer)

A hole in block 1

Blocks 8 and 7 or 9 still untouched......

The main gate at the round about......

autumncs SG

Haha... I love buses before I learn how to write or how to talk! (Dunno why) When I was 3 or 4 years ago I always like to draw rectangles with people inside and wheels underneath. During kindergarten, my future ambition is to become a bus driver!!! LOL...

I was born and grew up in Hong Kong, and I must say HK is a paradise for bus-lovers. The designs, varieties, and qualities of double decker buses in HK are among the best in the world. (I'm very lucky to have an uncle working in Kowloon Motor Bus (KMB), the HK's equivalent to Singapore's SBS. My uncle keeps the KMB monthly magazines and all the KMB posters/calendars/souvenirs for me. Thanks to him, I still keep in touch with the bus news in HK even though I'm in Singapore now.) Later I moved to Singapore, but my passion for buses never stops. Whenever I'm free, I'll take buses all around Singapore. Now, I'm forced to take buses everyday, as I live in Bedok and I have to go to NUS everyday. (Btw, my course of study has nothing to do with buses anymore. Haha.) I always check the SBS and SMRT websites for news, and occasionally I will admire my collection of bus models in my living room... (Part of my proud collection includes a KMB bus commemorating the return of HK to China in 1997, an articulated bus from Germany, and a set of 2 SBS buses commemorating the change of livery... The SBS one is the most expensive, but thankfully it was bought by my mum for my birthday...)

Sorry for talking so much. I'm so crazy about buses and (you guess what?) I just discovered this forum TODAY!!!! This explains my excitement and my tendency to keep typing and typing and typing and typing... Haha...

jetabt767400 SG

Great! I was once from HK too, but moved here at a very young age. I too have a NWFB Dennis Trident ALX500 bodied model, commemerating year 2000. One more is the MCW three door (erm, model number when I get home, now at school) double deck bus.
Everytime I go to HK, I would visit the bus model shop (86M) at Shatin Town Centre. Dunno whether times have changed, if it had shifted.
Now I am into aviation and aircraft models, more or less, buses are still my favourite!

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