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Who suggested the back end of a bus was comparable to a less-than-attractive lady? Not me.
Nearly 1,000 bus and coach back ends in this gallery demonstrate that watching the bus go can be an aesthetic (if not a travelling) pleasure.
It is part of a picture record of nearly 40,000 buses and coaches, plus ships, planes and trains, from the Alan O. Watkins Collection that is available for research on the web. |
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| 47 years of bus photography
47 years of coach photography
SHIPPING IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND AND EUROPE
Western National, Southern National and Royal Blue
Bristol Omnibus and Badgerline
National Express
Transport postcards of the 20th Century
Crosville
Hants & Dorset / Wilts & Dorset
Arriva Southern Counties in Kent, Medway and Essex
Britain's PTE fleets
Cyprus and Malta Buses
Scottish buses and coaches
NBC in South Wales
Medway - the tidal river, communities, places, ships and scenery
Midland Red & Carlyle Works
THE WORST RAIL PICS EVER
Kent bus scene
Corporation bus fleets of England
London's Buses
National Bus Company (NBC) in England
Three Counties buses - Gloshire, Worcs and Herefordshire
Bus, coach and transport ephemera (stops, stations, logos etc)
Corporation bus fleets of South Wales
Kings Ferry, Gillingham
Road vehicles
Planes - even worse collection than my trains
Flowers and trees, plants, animals and birds
Egyptian Buses and Coaches
Egyptian Holiday, 2006
Watkins - home and away
People and Places
Black & White Motorways and National Travel (South West)
Oxford Bus, City of Oxford, South Midland and Oxford Espress
Continental bus and coach operations
Workingarea
First Group Buses
Stagecoach Across the UK
St George's, HMS Pembroke - Royal Navy memorials
Bus Gallery
Corfu's bus and coach transport, 2008
National Express West Midlands
Lauren is here
Independent bus and coach fleets in Britain
Rebodied buses
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Whoever said that some girls look like the back end of a bus needs to re-examine that statement. With or without a bustle, topless or not, there's something special about it that it doesn't matter whether there are Bristols to be enjoyed, or a shaped bustle to catch the eye, there is always something Regal about a Lowestoft lady, a burly Burlingham or a Coventry-born beauty that does the lie to Leyland's worst.
What better way to consider the merits of the Back End of a Bus than by studying thecurvaceous (and the not-so-curvaceous) at backendofabus.fotopic.net? |
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| All pictures are the copyright of Alan O. Watkins, or are (where stated) from the Alan O. Watkins Collection. |
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| 1 | 201.009Z.jpg |
Wessex National 50 (ADD 50Y) awaiting registration, and pictured outside the NBC headquarters in New Street Square, London | Getting rid of the bustle | (1678) |
| 2 | 047.013C_456.jpg |
Duple Goldliner on Dennis chassis | Coaching back ends | (861) |
| 3 | 026.1001.jpg |
Northern Counties Leyland Atlanteans with - and without - roofs | Showing off their bustles | (682) |
| 4 | 007.087S_8-102.jpg |
K-type highbridge - Gloucester City with Waltham Forest as a school bus | Lowestoft lovelies | (659) |
| 5 | 200.0150.jpg |
Neoplan Skyliner flashes its engine | Getting rid of the bustle | (543) |
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| Hits (today): | 6 |
| Hits (this week): | 168 |
| Hits (this month): | 1015 |
| Hits (this year): | 7829 |
| Hits (all-time): | 69308 |
| Collections: | 16 |
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