A fleet of bright old Maltese buses is back on our roads
A fleet of bright, beautifully-restored old Maltese buses can lately be seen on Maltese roads again. They’re not, however, picking up passengers from bus stops but are operating as part of scheduled vintage tours from Valletta to St Julian’s and back.
“The old buses were replaced almost 10 years ago now [July 2011], so anyone under the age of around 14 will not remember the delights of our old buses,” Manuel Cutajar, director of the Vintage Bus City Tour, said.
“Now there is this opportunity for all generations of a family to go back in time together to sample buses the way they used to be.”
[attach id=1010352 size="large" align="left" type="image"]Orange was used for the old buses on the Żurrieq route.[/attach]
All the buses in the fleet have been lovingly restored to the highest standards and painted in the old route liveries that were used until 1973.
As well as the two-tone green and white bus of the Sliema route, there is a bus in orange that was used on the Żurrieq route; a brown one, which was used for the Mosta route; one in red and blue, the colours that were used on the Żabbar route; and one retains the yellow, orange and white colours that the buses were painted in...