Snap on Sunday

This week's Snap on Sunday comes from the town of Todmorden, with what is quite a rare beast these days pictured amongst the flowers. This smart looking Mk1 MCW Metrobus (but with a modified grill!) is B162 WUL, one of a large batch new to London Buses Ltd, some 27 years ago! Remarkably though, Halifax Joint Committee have looked after her very well, and she is actually very original internally, including the middle door which is still in full working order; somewhat rare considering that B162 is now generally confined to school work, after HJC pulled out of all of its service bus work. All service work that is, apart from one small chance to still be able to ride their quality fleet of buses! Only a local spotter would ever know of this, and indeed on a visit to Halifax in the past, this completely passed me by, but HJC do still offer the chance to get on one of their buses, when the C7 school journey, runs back in service as a 392! The usual allocation for this service is B162 WUL, but it is also possible to find other members of the fleet working this journey from time to time. Certainly worth it though, what a fantastic bus! Indeed the first Metrobus I've been on since National Express West Midlands retired the final MCW Metrobus' from their Birmingham fleet some 3 years ago now. Certainly a very rare opportunity to be able to ride on in 2012, through peaceful Yorkshire countryside.