Midland Scottish Buses and Coaches in the 1980's

26th December 2007

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A selection of my Midland slides taken in the 1980's on various trips from Aberdeen and Inverness prior to 1987 when I moved to Glasgow and hence a little closer to Midland's core area of operations. As with other slides taken over twenty years ago, the colour resolutions in various different films seem to have varied far more than one was aware of at the time, with some of the earliest Agfa slides seeming so grainy for 100ASA.

This era takes us through the hiving off of parts of the Midland company to form the Strathtay Scottish and Kelvin Scottish companies, as well as the transfer of Linlithgow depot from SOL to Midland and a brief spell when former SOL Baillieston vehicles worked with Midland fleetnames before transfering to Kelvin . It also sees the arrival of the Tiger and Metrobus fleets as well as the adoption of a new Midland Bluebird fleetname and some livery changes and experiments in the late 1980's.

These slides are taken on a variery of 100, 200 and 400 ASA slide films and scanned with a Nikon Coolscan V ED film scanner.

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