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1981 Bristol VR Eastern Coachworks [VRT/SL3]

1981 Bristol VR [VRT/SL3] in Doctor Who, TV Series, 2005-2022 Ep. 4.15

Class: Bus, Double-deck — Model origin:

1981 Bristol VR Eastern Coachworks [VRT/SL3]

Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time

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Author	Message
Sandie ◊ 2011-03-13 23:06	-- Last edit: 2012-05-06 00:21:23
cl82 ◊ 2011-03-13 23:51	I think it's a Bristol VR Series. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_VR
johnfromstaffs ◊ 2011-03-14 14:39	The main picture is a VR, but there's more than one bus shown here, the thumbnail vehicles aren't the same.
antp ◊ 2011-03-14 16:09	Is it the episode for which they had a bus shipped to Dubai desert? Bus which was damaged, so they had to rewrite some scenes. According to this article, they used two buses, and indeed the one shipped to Dubai was a Bristol VR, but they do not clearly say about the one used in UK.
CRAFT372 ◊ 2011-08-20 21:09	The name of the episode is Planet Of The Dead
kudos ◊ 2012-05-05 23:30	This bus is a 1981 Bristol VR with Eastern Coachworks (ECW) bodywork. After being transported to Dubai, where the desert scenes were set, the bus was damaged in the shipping yard, so the plot was slightly tweaked to involve the bus colliding with a spacecraft whilst travelling through the wormhole, explaining the damage. The bus was shown in the livery of 'City Roam', a fictional company. -- Last edit: 2013-01-22 23:56:49
v8 boy ◊ 2014-01-04 21:40	Both buses used were bought by a preservationist, the damaged one to provide parts for the other.
Duel281 ◊ 2018-12-31 13:36	Great bus! And it's awesome that it even appears in a Doctor Who episode!
San ◊ 2026-01-20 18:48	antp wrote According to this article, they used two buses, and indeed the one shipped to Dubai was a Bristol VR, but they do not clearly say about the one used in UK. Initially they had only send out 1 VR to Dubai (RUA 461W) but it was damaged in transit (a 30' container was dropped on it), so they send out GGM 84W as an additional unit to help film some screens (with the reworked script). The VR used for the UK scenes was HJB 455W. RUA 461W was scrapped in Dubai after filming and GGM 84W was sent back to UK, which it and HJB 455W were bought by James Denny. He used GGM 84W as an spare bus in order to resotre HJB 455W and it was last reported to be in an unknown dealer for scrap (https://bcv.robsly.com/drwho.html)

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