Worcesterhibby started a thread about Jambo cars. It got me to thinking.
In the 60's before we could all afford to buy and run a car, how did you get about for the nearer away day matches.
Our choice was mostly the match day buses from St Andrew's Square which you had to buy your ticket for the day before the match.
Fond memories of the singing, and drinking (within moderation of course) with frequent singing requests to the driver to "stop the bus we need a "wee-wee".
Many a a driver had the hat passed around for them, very often very profitably for them.
The trips on the old Bluebirds until the more modern buses came along were a simple joy.
Using the train for the further afield matches often gave the chance of being in the same or the next carriage used by the team and staff. Wish I still had all those programmes with all those autographs though.
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Thread: Away days in the 60's - travel
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11-06-2019 02:33 PM #1
Away days in the 60's - travel
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11-06-2019 02:40 PM #2
Supporters buses wi the empty cans of Tartan and Skol rattling up and doon the bus bursting oan a pish
The whip roond for Wee Hughie that got lifted post match
The basic Football Special Trains that took you oot to the sticks and left you sitting for ages
Hibees!
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11-06-2019 02:43 PM #3
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Libby travel bus for years with the mental Dougie Sneddon as convener, crazy days 😲
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11-06-2019 02:59 PM #4
Don't go back as far as the 60s but I used to love away days on one of the many supporters buses. I've been on the football specials a couple of times but they were cancelled in the late 80s (I think) because of the increase in trouble.
There doesn't seem to be as many buses running as there used to be. People seem to prefer making their own way to games.
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11-06-2019 03:17 PM #5
Joined Hibs club when it was up Carlton Terrace (I think it was) was on Bernie Glanceys St Giles juveniles bus which left from the Grassmarket. Great memories of going to Shawfield, Cathkin Park etc 😊 that must have been 1963 IIRC.
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11-06-2019 04:01 PM #6
First game away was as an 9 year old on the Carlton bus circa 1964/65 to Dunfermline when we won 6-5. Hooked ever since. Was a member the year after and am still a member of the Hibs club after all these years with only a 2 year gap in the 80s
Now assist in running the Linlithgow and Bo'ness branch who have a bus to all home games and some away ones, but getting harder to break even due to many factors!
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11-06-2019 04:03 PM #7
Going to lovely places like Motherwell and Airdrie in the 70s and returning with the bus windows missing.
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11-06-2019 04:15 PM #8
Sandy McNair, in one of his trademark articles told tales of the corporation buses that would run from St Andrews Square to away games. They were named Excursion 1, 2, 3 and so on depending on demand, and Excursion 1 was deemed the premium and most desired bus to be on for extra kudos. Maybe the Uber Fans of the day’s bus of choice!
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11-06-2019 04:26 PM #10
There was always someone that knew a short cut and the driver ended up getting lost.
Nine times out of ten you had to abandon the bus and leave the driver to park it up and sprint/jog to the ground not Stadium as it was usually a dump
Happy days!
Carlton Branch rools ya bass!
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11-06-2019 04:27 PM #11
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11-06-2019 04:32 PM #12
Theres definitely a niche in the market for football specials, Virgin West Coast run the odd ones for big matches in London involving teams from the North West but thats about it. These were done away with due to trouble as another poster says. Its different these days though, CCTV is everywhere on trains as a deterrent to would be animals.
With all the old rolling stock that is currently being withdrawn a TOC could buy them and use them for specials and because they're so old it wouldn't really matter if the crowd was a bit rowdy. It would keep the fans away from day train services and stop them annoying normal punters.Hibs.nets negative posting legend and unofficial ticket agent.
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11-06-2019 04:57 PM #15
Early 70's. Pentland Branch travelling from The White Hart in the Grassmarket. Sometimes City Link or train.
Singing stop the bus I need a wee wee, having a wee wee against the bus as travellers sped past trying not to look, getting chased through Aberdeen and Perth just to mention a couple, bus window put in at Ibrox and Tannadice, darts thrown at us at Rugby Park, bottles thrown at us at various grounds and Turnbull's Tornadoes.
Oh yes Happy days indeed.
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I was second from the back seat upstairs, the window popped out and I was left on the central reservation with my legs still in the bus and my upper half on the grass, if the bus hadn't hit the middle barrier I'd be dead - as you say very vivid memories. We ended up missing the game and being driven up to the hospital to see pals who were injured - both Sandy McNair and Irv Welsh (sitting upstairs at the front) were pretty messed up.
The only '80's Scottish Cup tie I missed.
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That wee scroat bag Darren Jackson scored?
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11-06-2019 05:18 PM #20
I was not in an Official Supporters Club but I occasionally travelled on the SMT " Hibernian Supporter Hires" which left from St Andrews Square. Does anyone remember the name of the pub which was situated in close proximity to the bus stands? I was a frequent visitor in these now far off days.
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Leeries Lamplighter Bar on the corner was a Dundee pub
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GGTTH
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