Malta Bus + other Malta Transport Image Archives compiled by Keith Till & Marco Zammit including contributions from many friends

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The direct reg number comparison list has been kindly prepared by Mac Head who has asked can anybody assist with the missing numbers?

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Now interpolated into this folder are the temporary registered 12m KL's with DBT/U registrations. These have been placed adjacent to the image of the same vehicle with the current BUS registration. More of the 12m DBT/U registered KL's awaiting details of the new BUS registrations can be found in the 'queries and answers' folder. Any assistance with details of these would be most welcome.

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These have now been repatriated. BUS 316 & Bus 318 changed identities and images of both versions are in this folder.

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This folder contains images of used buses passed on to TM and now in use by Arriva Malta. All are former ATP route buses except BUS 400, which was imported privately.

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This folder contains images of number of BMC Falcon buses, from the former ATP fleet now with TM and in use by Arriva Malta. They comprise of driver trainers [in as acquired livery] and white 'wrapped' route buses normally employed on extra duties. This folder includes the out of sequence, BBX 571 & BXX 572.

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This folder contains the Arriva Malta vehicles currently working on Gozo. Note the garage code 'GO' [shown as 'G' on the vehicles] as well as the fleet numbers.

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The images in this folder are available to share and reuse under the terms of the IWM Non Commercial Licence. The IWM red copyright mark must not be removed.

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The query corner folder [which was on the old Fotopic site] has finally been reinstated on to this web site. You are invited to submit questions and answers here about the contents of this folder. You can either submit a reply in the comments box which appears a below the image after opening by clicking on the thumbnail, use the "Contact" link on the menu on the left or if you are a member of the Malta Buses yahoogroup by posting your answer/query via the said group.

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7th. March 2012 - Even though I have been visiting Malta at least once a year for more years than I can remember, I have only coincided my visit with the Annual Carnival once. That was in 2003 and there is a folder on this site [Carnival & Buses] to record that occasion. During the intervening nine years, looking at images of the Carnival the floats appear to have become more interesting and indeed more sophisticated so I was delighted to receive, from my colleague Glyn Bowen, the images contained in this folder which he took on his recent visit. For the pedants among us as this site is now concerned with all forms of transport in Malta/Gozo these images qualify for inclusion, as a form of transport, in their own right. - Keith Till.

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The first image in this folder shows FBY 737 on arrival at Siggiewi [Route 89] on its last revenue earning journey on 2nd. July 2011. Owned by Joseph Vella of Mellieha this Duple bodied Bedford YRQ was new to Reliance of Newbury in 1975 as HGM 822N and was exported to Malta in 1986 and registered Y-0737. It was purchased by Joseph to replace his existing Ford ET7/Barbara No. 3308.The original Bedford 466 engine was replaced in 1985 by a Bedford 500 and again in 1997 by a DAF 320. By this time it had been repainted from the spray green livery into the new standard mainly orange route bus livery and re-registered FBY 737. By the time of the start of this last run the bus station in Valletta had been closed down and departure was made from Sarria Street adjacent to the Maglio Gardens turning immediatly left at the traffic lights into the Great Siege Road and then left again passing the Government Offices on the right and the Police compound on the left [where the remains of confiscated DBY 342 can still be seen almost hidden in the undergrowth] We then rejoined the normal route in the vicinity of the Porte des Bombes. When passing the Kia yard it was noted that the King Long open top double deckers from China were in storage. Arrival at the Siggiewi terminus was on time. Passengers disembarked for the last time from this vehicle and it trundled off home, out of service, to Mellieha.

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15th. Sep. 2011 - Just added to this folder is the first 'non red' livery mini in this 'red' xMY series mini file. ie IMY 402. Added [18th, Jan 2012] is a further image of change of livery colour from red to silver - this time IMY 400

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We are delighted to present this folder which contains images by Bruce Tilley and Steve Oliver; 136 in all. Many of them are being published here for the first time so our most grateful thanks are extended to them. It is wonderful to see such a large quantity of the old route liveries come to life before our very eyes. To our knowledge, this folder contains the largest number of images published in one place of these liveries and we hope that they will be of interest to enthusiasts and historians alike; as well as of interest to the bus owners and citizens of Malta and Gozo who remember these liveries as part of their daily life. The colour coded town and village routes were to last until 1973. These company liveries came into being in the mid 1920’s and were already in use by the time the tram and railway closed one shortly after the other. Some time later the TCB was instituted. Following the war, the old liveries were again reinstated with the exception of a few which were discontinued. These post war liveries are illustrated in the coloured list from around 1955 which has been reproduced here. The English names for the termini are used in it. Before the war Castille Palace was known as Piazza Regina [Queen's Square] and Kingsgate as Porta Reale [Royal Gate]. This list is very important in that it shows the Sliema [Gasan overall dark green with white stripe] colours and yet it shows the Gozo [GBOA] post merger grey with red stripe livery. On Malta this arrangement lasted until the mid 1960’s when first the Mosta and Naxxar [including Gharghur] group was formed by merging the two previous groups. This resulted in the two tone brown livery. Very shortly afterwards the Zebbug [including Qormi] and Siggiewi groups merged resulting into the orange and yellow livery. All this ended in 1973 when only three colours were used for the separate groups. By late 1975 the colour was changed to spray green prior to the final merger that happened in 1977. The orange and yellow livery subsequently adopted was in use between late 1995 to mid 2011.

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This is a preliminary folder containing the first few images of 'genuine' preserved buses plus buses from Gozo now on Malta in NON Gozo liveries. It will not initially include the ex Gozo buses now on Malta in standard Gozo livery as of course they can be viewed in the 'Gozo' folder and there is no point,at this time, in duplication of these This folder will be greatly expanded as confirmation is received of what is actually preserved from the old ATP fleet as of when these are re-registered or re-liveried. In other words a bit of a 'hotch poch' of a folder for now, and obviously to be reworked as more details received, but at least it puts the 'preserved' in one place for the time being.

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A 'sister ship' for 364 will be on its way from Malta to the UK during the Summer of 2012. This will be King Long DBY 390. A sub folder is now inserted in this folder to follow the progress of the refurbishment/journey to the UK/subsequent operation.

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With the deliveries of the main tranche of low floor buses the old buses were withdrawn and stored at various locations to await scrapping. Notes made March 2004 Withdrawn at Government Transport Repair Yard - Kordin: 370/377/448/452/487/499/501/511/535/553/588/598/602/649/664/671/727/734/752/753/760/767/769/771/794 plus LH GVH 373. NB 499 had incorrect number painted on ie 342. Withdrawn at Kordin Grain Silo: 312/313/357/388/394/399/407/421/423/443/454/456/464/494/510/526/ 541/547/570/582/600/635/653/668/687/710/730/740/741/745/755/758/ 781/788/801/806 Withdrawn at Flagstone Wharf: 332/356/363/366/390/393/403/415/429/432/446/483/489/507/514/533/ 538/572/601/613/627/638/639/641/678/685/704/705/761/782/764. Withdrawn at the Kia site: 317/326/548/581/686/698/711/799

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01a list kindly supplied and updated by Mac Head.

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Images of the 'Electric Taxis' can be found in the folder "Pure Electric Vehicles [does not include 'Hybrids']"

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