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April 27th 2005 |
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| ANOTHER
SCANIA DEMONSTRATOR
A SECOND SCANIA in as many months is now on loan at Blackburn.
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April 18th 2005 |
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| TRIDENT
RE-REGISTERING
THE DENNIS TRIDENTS will have new registration numbers as
from June 6th.
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April 18th 2005 |
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| THREE
TITANS TO BE WITHDRAWN
THREE OF THE Leyland Titan vehicles are to be withdrawn from
service.
Those to be taken out of service and put into storage are
No.'s 97, 98 and 100
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April 6th 2005 |
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| VOLVO
534 RE-PAINTED
VOLVO B6R No. 534 has received it's new Front Line livery. |
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April 4th 2005 |
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| OPTARE
637 RE-PAINTED
OPTARE METRORIDER No.637 is the latest vehicle to receive
a re-paint. |
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March 31st 2005 |
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| SCANIA
ON DEMONSTRATION
BLACKBURN TRANSPORT have taken a SCANIA single deck vehicle
on trial. |
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March 18th 2005 |
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| No.534
GOES INTO PAINTSHOP
FOLLOWING THE RE-PAINT of Volvo B6R No. 536, it's sister vehicle
No. 534 has gone into the Intack paint-shop for re-painting
into 'Front Line' livery. |
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March 17th 2005 |
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| OLYMPIAN
No. 15 GOES INTO SERVICE
LEYLAND OLYMPIAN No. 15 (H550 GKX) is now resplendant in it's
new 'Front Line' livery. |
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March 14th 2005 |
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| NO
TRAMS FOR BLACKBURN
A SCHEME to provide East Lancashire with a tram system has
been axed after five years of planning and £1million
of public money was spent on research. |
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February 22nd 2005 |
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| OLYMPIAN
No. 15 RE-PAINT
AFTER MUCH DELAY, Leyland Olympian No. 15 is at last having
it's re-paint. |
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February 9th 2005 |
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| OLYMPIAN
No.28 INVOLVED IN INCIDENT
LEYLAND OLYMPIAN No. 28 was involved in an incident in Clitheroe
this morning.... |
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January 23rd 2005 |
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CMNL BLACKBURN MPD RELEASED
DIE-CAST MODEL BUS manufacturer CMNL (Creative Master Northcord
Limited) have brought forward the release of their model of
the Blackburn Dennis MPD No. 652 |
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January 21st 2005 |
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RE-PAINT UPDATE
DENNIS TRIDENT No. 5 is, today, having it's East Lancs Coachbuilders
banner renewed with a new version... |
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January 9th 2005 |
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BLACKBURN TRANSPORT SUES LOCAL RIVALS
THE LANCASHIRE EVENING TELEGRAPH has reported on Blackburn
Transport's proposal to sue the catch-me-bus.com bus firm.... |
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