Alexander Y Type Bus Body. As per my submission to MBS for this weeks challenge - favourite Alexander (now Alexander Dennis) body type.

            1/76 scale, Code 3, KCB Network Leyland Leopard - Alexander Y Type Bus. Service 56 for Shotts, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. My own work. 

The main modelling group I am involved with has held a number of challenges etc throughout the COVID-19 lockdown, as our monthly meetings have obviously been cancelled. The group (Model Bus Scotland) has been a tremendous relief and form of escapism from the relentless bad news, anger and hate in the world. 

This weekend (27&28/06/20) the challenge has been to post our favourite models with bodywork from Alexander (now Alexander-Dennis), based in Falkirk. Pictured here is a representation of my favourite - the Alexander Y Type. 

It is difficult to put into words what I feel is so special about this particular bus body type. I feel I was very lucky, as I was just of the right age to see them in their final years of operation with Strathtay, KCB Network and finally First Kelvin, before being replaced in favour of low floor easy access vehicles. While I of course believe it is only fair and just that these low floor vehicles are the norm, as they allow easy use of public transport to the disabled and everyone else who would have struggled with step-entry - I do very much miss the memories of standing at a stop and hearing the rumble of an approaching Leopard, before looking up and seeing one of these icons of Scottish public transport trundling towards me. 

Of course those days are not entirely gone, thanks to the efforts of those who have preserved a number of Y Types and who run them where possible at events. 

Finally, I feel that proof of the enduring greatness of the Alexander Y Type body, is that its outline is still used today as a visual indicator of a bus stop. For me, it is *the* iconic bus type.

This, alongside its sister Y Type Leopard in First Kelvin (later First Greater Glasgow, First in Glasgow), are two of my favourite Code 3 models, as they bring back memories of waiting in Motherwell or Wishaw with my Gran and Papa for the bus back to Shotts, and seeing one of these pull up.

Taken on: May 30, 2020

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