The long and the short of it: Keith Burbidge and his dinky decker visited Yellow Buses’ depot.
A retired bus driver who built a miniature double decker got to meet the real thing when he took his vehicle to Yellow Buses’ depot in Bournemouth.
Keith Burbidge spun over to the Yeomans Way site and parked up next to an open-topper and one of the company’s brand new buses.
The long and the short of it: Keith Burbidge and his dinky decker visited Yellow Buses’ depot.
The model-maker made his little Yellow Bus from a mobility scooter and based it on a 1950s’ Leyland double decker.
Inside are two genuine bus seats and he and his wife Carol often travel together near to their Southbourne home litter picking from it.
After fame of Keith’s dinky decker spread across the country, Yellow Buses invited him and his creation to the depot.
The long and the short of it: Keith Burbidge and his dinky decker visited Yellow Buses’ depot.
The 6ft long, 4ft high model bus in yellow livery attracted staff from the company like bees around a honey pot.
The long and the short of it: Keith Burbidge and his dinky decker visited Yellow Buses’ depot.
Keith, 75, a former potter and ex-bus driver, said: “It was amazing to drive among the big buses.
“Although when one was following me around the depot I was a little nervous because I don’t have any brake lights.
“I get a lot of people waving at me and it’s all a bit of a surprise as I only did it for a bit of fun.”
Fiona Harwood from Yellow Buses, who invited Keith along, said: “When we saw photos of Keith’s bus we had to invite him to the depot with his bus.
“It was very amusing to see it next to our buses and driving around them with Keith inside.
“We made him up some signage for the sides and wish him luck with whatever he does next.”
The long and the short of it: Keith Burbidge and his dinky decker visited Yellow Buses’ depot.
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About Yellow Buses:
Yellow Buses operates a fleet of 131 buses and 18 coaches with a staff of 430. It carries just under 15m passengers a year with its vehicles operating nearly five million miles across the Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch and East Dorset area. Yellow Buses is part of RATP Group, the world’s fifth largest public transport provider.
RATP Dev
RATP Dev is a RATP group subsidiary set up in 2002 to export the Group’s operation and maintenance knowhow outside the historic network operated by RATP in the Paris region. RATP Dev now operates in 15 countries on four continents (United Kingdom, France, Italy, Switzerland, Algeria, Morocco, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, India, China, South Korea, the Philippines, the USA and Brazil). In 2015 RATP Dev generated revenue of more than 1.1 billion euros.
RATP group
With 14 million passengers every day worldwide, RATP group is the fifth largest urban transport operator in the world. The multimodal network operated by RATP in the Paris region, with its 14 metro lines (including two driverless lines), two regional express network (RER) lines, seven tramway lines, 350 bus lines and shuttle services catering to the region’s two international airports, is the largest of its kind in the world to be managed by a single company.
RATP group can devise, design and implement infrastructure development projects, operate and maintain networks irrespective of the transport mode (metro, regional train, tramway and bus) and develop innovative services to promote mobility such as passenger information, electronic ticketing, pricing and customer marketing. The automation of Paris metro’s Line 1, which was completed at the end of 2012, is a world first and once again has demonstrated the ability of RATP group to complete particularly complex projects.
RATP group has a workforce of nearly 60,000 worldwide and in 2015 generated revenue of 5,556 million euros.
