POTM November 2025

[Barry Drive]

Nominations are now open. (Where has the year gone?)

The rules:

● two* photographs may be submitted by each member, provided they have not been submitted before

  ◦ * this month we are seeking photos of CB80-bodied buses^[1]. If you submit a photo (or two) meeting this criterion, you may post up to three photos but you may only submit a maximum of 2 photos of the same bus or at the same location.

● photos must be "owned" by the person submitting it (if not, you must have the permission of the photographer to submit the photo - and identify the photographer)

● photos must be have taken legally - ACT Bus does not encourage or condone trespassing

● submitted photographs must prominently feature:

  ◦ public transport infrastructure (such as bus stop, bus station, bus depot, Light Rail line, tram depot) within the ACT / Queanbeyan region (location must be specified)

and/or

  ◦ a bus, tram or support vehicle from the ACT or Queanbeyan (taken within the region or a former ACT/Queanbeyan bus) where-
    ▪ the vehicle is in focus
    ▪ the fleet or registration number is identifiable (or supplied by photographer if not visible in photograph)

● photos narrower than 640 pixels (for landscape aspect) will not be accepted

If possible, please supply date or month of photo.

Refer here for full ACT Bus photo submission conditions.

Photos can be submitted by replying to this forum topic and attaching the image; to ensure consistency, photos must be displayed with a width of 640 (or height of 640 if a "portrait" aspect) - photos larger than 640 are required to use the option width=640 or height=640 in the image tag. For example: [img width=640] instead of [img].

To submit photos from Instagram, you must post a reply with a caption and paste the URL of the Instagram image. Photos not publicly visible cannot be submitted. We will not accept unhosted photos - they must be stored on a photo hosting site (including Flickr, Facebook or photo sharing sites such as imgbb.com).

Submissions close midnight 27 October 2025, Australian Eastern daylight time (unless fewer than 6 photos have been submitted, in which case a further 24 hours will be allowed).

Voting will commence on 28 October. Voting will take 4 days and close 1 November.

The winning photo will be loaded to the actbus.net website and posted to ACT Bus on Facebook and Instagram. The winner and runner(s)-up will also be included in the Photo of the Year vote. By submitting a photo, you are giving permission for it to be loaded onto the ACT Bus Gallery, and Facebook and Instagram pages.
1 - either rigid or articulated. Why CB80s? Why not? They've been neglected recently.

[Bus 524]

Here we have a collection of ACTION CB80s as requested.


BUS 523 laying over at Anthony Rolfe Ave (taken 16 June 2025)



BUS 579 opperating a 2 towards Fyshwick while stopped at stop (4979) University of Canberra College St (taken 22 July 2025)


BUS 534 at City West layover prior to it being closed (taken at some point during 2024)

[CBRFlyer]

BUS510 at Anthony Rolfe layover


BUS679 along with BUS517 awaiting shuttle service duties for Floriade at Regatta Point


BUS891 at Cohen st Bus Station

[Barry Drive]

Fuso Rosa 217-185 on Hardwick Cres


Bus 459 on Mort St.

[Barry Drive]

Voting is now open.

[Barry Drive]

Apologies. Something unusual has occurred with the poll allowing more votes than recorded voting members. (It looks like the "member" count wasn't updating correctly.)

So to ensure integrity of the poll, it has been reset and voting will have to start again.