Share some oversea bus pics here...

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At the airport...


Due to ground secutiry, we could not get a better shot. nevertheless A Mitshubishi Apron bus..

ah ha ha got it going...
Me Hokkaido pics

jul 2007

A hino HR or HT series bus with Ribbon 1 bodywork doing Chuo Bus Svc 5

Chuo Bus means Central bus, orginates from japan Central islands. (means tokyo and stuffs)



A typical japanese Plastic Side Desto....


A Hino? in Fuji Heavy Ind bodywork / Chuo bus Svc 10 - going across a traffic junction...

So it was kinda  a cool day in Ashahigawa township so i opened my coach window and shot this..
A Mitshubishhi Aerostar Doing the local service 24. Nice livery. Observe the bus is a WAB
the bus stop in the car park of JUSCO AsahiGawa...lol.

A bus stop. complete with tactile plates for blind to lead them right to door of bus.
Note: Boarding is at rear door.

Now thats just cute...A tiney aero star turning at this jjunction.. Love the criss cross of power lines overhead...


A hino? with FHI (Fuji Heavy Industries) bodywork /  Svc665 Unknown local green livery bus co Asahigawa
Note the use of EDS and boxing up of svc  numbers.  Are the numbers easier to read when boxed up? hmmm

Night shot of a hino? FHI  / Svc 62 that green livery Asahigawa

typical Side EDS ...

Offside shot of one of them Miji Aero Stars...

Alert! Environmentally friendly vehicle alert! Alternative Fuel bus alert!! Alert! New bus alert!
A Hino Ribbon 2 (Latest designs) HYBRID bus!  Pity the EDS got obscured due to the birght sunlight .

Offside shot of one of them FHi hino? bus...

got red colour bus co in Asahiagwa... note the offisde has a radiator for this FHI bus...

A Nissan Diesel Space Cruiser bodywork bus. Rather ugly thing i must say. Note the use of a slope on the WAB logo to denote a one step slope ramp.
The bus has a step entrance but yet is able to accomodate PIW in bus. They roll themselves up using a rather high inclined  sloped ramp coming out from the step to kerb. Again the birght sunlight obscured the EDS.

A Isuzu gala coach doing intertown service . Here we are at a rest point and it jjust so happen the domestic town to tonw express services call here. note that JR rail and Chuo bus both run inter state-town bus services in hokkaido.



Hino Ribbon 2 - one step WAB / JR Rail Hokkaido Bus (JHB) Svc 6  - taken at JR Tower Bus Interchange
JR Tower consists of a underground bus int - a big mall (With Daimaru) - A Subway station Interchange with at least 3 subway lines meeting.


An Isuzu Erga One step WAB / Chuo bus Svc 188 - taken at JR Tower semi cirular bus stop area. hidng behind the isuzu is my  Mithsubishi Aero Queen coach parked. And behind the bus is a domestic express bus also from Chuo bus.



the one step ramp entrance. i wonder how the ramp looks like when open....

An Isuzu Cubic - looks very much like a bolton (Australia)  Bodywork Renault PR 100.2's front..actually its the same... / Svc East Line 63 (MRT Feeder) Chuo bus.

Apparently the sloped ramp PIW logo also refers to very  inclined ramps like this one when fully opened...(Isuzu Cubic entrance door)

Cute miji.... / Otaru Maritime Shuttle

Otaru is one of the seaside town of Hokkaio. its really famous. fammous for glass ornanments factory n shop, its chocolate outlets and the museum and even a cofee shop that gives u the hello kitty cup after u drank ur coffee from it...
oddly enough, not famous  for the beach at otaru lol...


Isuzu Erga / Narita Aiport Express (Airport Limosine) with interesting typcial japense express coach style front EDS.

Hokkaido
2007 Jul
ZYX

A more complete shot of the apron bus.

Just a question, does Japan only use Japanese brands for their buses (i.e. Mitsubishi, Isuzu, Hino, Nissan etc) or do they also import foreign brands? If so, what brands?

they do import a very small amount of foreign bsues.

of note i noticed there is a Volvo HQ in hokkaido.(teaches u never fall asleep in tour bus - otherwise miss the sights lol)  The Volvo b10MA bendybuses of Hokkaido eluded my camera and me. so no shots of them....rats

i heard they;ve got neoplans in japan as well.

ZYX

up next some Hong Kong pics...

hong kong July 2006 trip.
Went Hk with uni frenz
um was my first time in Hk so i kinda drag the poor folks on buses... hee hee hee

shall classify by bus model / bodywork
Then state svc no
then remarkz



haha a good first photo to start the Hong Kong series>
kowloon Jordan area
Left:
Volvo olympian 3 Axle ? Alexander Royale
KMB Svc 14
Bus simply just resmbbles our dear vo3x batch 2 with denso air-con on sv 14 (like SBS9552) . evven use Denso air-con.

Right:
Enviro 500 / Enviro 500 (WAB)
KMB Svc 68 Xpress
Love the enviro engine turbo whsitle combined with voith whsitle. most soothing bus engine sounds i ever experinced. lovely to ride. also nice to look at. i will admit interior iz a bit dull.

Hung Hom ferry terminal Bus terminal "night shot"
Volvo B10TL aka Volvo Super olympian / volgren 22xD with smiley front (WAB)
KMB Svc 8A to tshim tshai tsui but not to Star ferry terminal like usual svc 8
Interior look jsut think of SBS9888Y can leow. bus moves like SBS9888Y as well.


Jordan area Kowloon
Dennis Dragon NAC / Duple metsec
KMB Svc 11
think scrapped leow bahz
We refer to NAC bus in hong kong as "Hot Dogs"

Leyland Olympain 2 Axle / Alexander royale
KMB Svc 2E
sorry for dark nearside...

erm i oso went Macau so shall mix some in..

Hino cute mmini bus (Low floor) / seems japense bodywork
TCM (Macau bus co) Svc 10B


Some mercdes benz bus with local bodywork
TCM Svc 10


Isuzu LT133coach / Kong  bodywork
New Lantau Bus (NLB) Svc 23
the coach we took up the lantau hillside to go to the big Buddha. today u wd probably sit the MTR's cable car Nghom Peng 360 up and not take this thing up.

hong kong airport bus terminus
Dennis Trident III / Duple Metsec 5000
Citybus - Cityflyer Svc A21
An express svc from Airport. Seen here picking up pax who juz arrived from planes. This one goes Kowloon ordan and yau ma tei areas.


Shot outside the airport near the circus to main rd
Dennis Trident III / Alexander ALX 500 bodywork. 9Cd be ALX400 oso)
Long Win Svc E33
I have this impression that the E series of aiporrt express bus services do not leave the lantau island where the airport is...

It is not unusual for Long Win bus co buses to open their ramps while at the Airport Bus Terminus . Here a pax with roll on luggage is about to enter the ramp for this Dennis trident III / ALX 500 bus.

volvo b10TL  Alexander ALX 500
New World First Bus Svc 796C
Taken at Mongkok area...

manged to spot a Scania n113DRb in Alexander bodywork.
tough to diffrentiate the bus out from the many Alxander bodywork buses. had to see rear engine, run to front jjump up n down to see the dash..confirm is scania then bbaord bus..lol
Notice the Bus driver had to paste what the indicators meant in chiense in stickers at dash.
gear selector indicates its a voith so expectedly the bus sounds like our n113CRB.
(um i din manage to get a shot of scania bus ouside)

HKEC Bus terminal.
MAn (oooh i love MANs) a hem  .. MAN Nl262 / ?? bodywork looks MAN integrated (WAB)
Citybus Svc 25A
Oddly ennough this NL262 the engine sounds more like a Volvo B10BLE or Lance and the gearbox is like a very smooth ZF. cd be Allison. Hardly sounds like a typical MAn bus.

Volvo B10TL (Volvo Super olympian - VSO) / Wrightbus ?Gemini? (WAB)
KMB Service 961 The first digit 9 indicates it is a Cross harbor <using one of the three cross harbor tunnel>..service.
The deep brown band in the livery indicates it is a very new batch of WAb bus for KMB. Suspect the dash might be new generation volvo and produce dit dit dit singal sounds like our B9TLs. Anyhow did manged to ride in one of these "dit dit" B10TLs on a KM Svc 9.

front shot of same bus. nice front.

Mitshhubishi MK117J /Shin-Kureha
KMB Svc 203

Toyota Coaster--many of these minibus in hong Kong. green means stop at bus stop only. got red one means stop anywhere cna pick up and drop off. use them like feeder bus.

Yutong ZK6100H Coach / integrated bodywork means by yutong themselves
aiyah just the coach that brought me to airport after  our tour.

king Loong 61xx series bus / king Loong bodywork
transmacau svc 3
yup China buses .

...display in chiense.) and their Road Show. (is thir Tv Moible...rights below the TV thing. For bus with Road Show a Road Show sticker will be pasted at front lower windscreen...u can identify bus with Road Show to catch haha waited pateintly for this screen...

Along the main road Nathan rd on Kowloon island, many bright lights.. so easy enough to shoot night shots in hong Kong
here a KMB 234X (Volvo B10TL) in ALX500 bodywork. ) waits pateintly at a traffic jjunction while i conveinently was crossing, see no car block camera snap lol

A KMB Svc 1 Enviro 500 i just took n i shoot after alighting.

MAN 24.310 double decker MAn  / Berkhoff (Holland) bodywork (now under VDL)
umm my only pathetic EDS gone shot of this thing in HK. din even sit one..sads

hee din realise is a MAN coach. anyhow whats more crazy is:  it is a M-trans (Malaysia) bodywork bus. M-trans coach is more common in Malaysia of cuz. erm Mmind the signpost as we were rushing ard  looking for a cha chan ting to makan lunch so cd not get a proper shot...

Neoplan Centroliner
Specially design for Hong ong as a double deck WAb . big hoo haa when luanched in Hk. so big hoo haa hee

neoplan Cnetroliner / integrated
KMB Svc 269C. let's board the bus

Mid-aft to rear shot - lower deck

PIW area nearside between front n rear door

rear to front lower deck. observe the air heater style vents for a/c. probabaly fashion after air heater in german Neoplan buses.

upper deck front to rear

me n mmy folks loved the big windscreen at upper deck. No!, not advisible to rest legs at front. dirty the area n very bad safety aspect. hahah .

Manny have told me Neoplan are noisy. oddly enough this unit was dead quiet. i had to go downstair to hear engine sound properly. Zf gearnox shifts real quick and smooth. likely a 6 speed. left my frens upstair enjoy view or sleeping. cuz very quiet.

You got me drooling.

Anyway, is the front seat of the last pic cramped? Your friend looks squashed-up.

the dit dit Wrightbus VSO svc 9 ride

Wrightbus gemini bbus.

lets board the bus

lower deck mid aft to rear. very crowded. Bbus Svc 9 duplciates MTR line from Wong tai Sin to star ferry. Runs as fast s MTR train. in my opinion.

.lot of cruves in design of Wrightbbus. Stariwell



Mid aft upper deck to front.
Nice curves integrated to fit in the PIS (Passenger information Signage).
the red colour indicator at PIS area indicates bell is pressed for next stop.

Cute rear runded window at back. Mid aft - to rear upper deck

 
No luggage allowed at front place of upper deck hor.

Originally posted by 16/f/lonely:

You got me drooling.

Anyway, is the front seat of the last pic cramped? Your friend looks squashed-up.

is his bag suqash him due to no luggage alowed to palce at front ruling.