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  • Red Warrior Coaches

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    My great uncle owned Red Warrior Coaches around World War II time in Birmingham.Thought you may like to see some images from the family archive!!!I cannot help with any captions for the vehicles I’m afraid, but if any can feel free. Paul Young05/2014 11/05/14 – 08:25 Re. photograph 3. 65 Hurst Street was subsequently used…

  • Taunton Running Day 2014

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    I thought you may like to see a small selection of shots I took on Sunday the 11th of May at this years Taunton Running Day. Ken Jones05/2014 HJA 965E is 1967 Leyland Titan PD2 with Neepsend body built for Stockport Corporation Transport, and spent some 20 years on town services and routes into Manchester.…

  • AEC Reliance 344 XUK

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    I thought you may like to see a mini gallery of my visit to Faversham on 17th May 2014.Gleaming with a new paint job is a rare 1954 AEC Reliance with a Roe Dalesman centre entrance coach body. Originally registered TUG 20 she is now owned by Seaford and District Motor Services and is under…

  • Delaine, Bourne, Lincolnshire

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    As I noted in my reply to Orla’s comment about the Mid-Wales Motorways Bedford SB RCT 2, there are – so far – no vehicles of this well-respected operator on this website. Here is a mini gallery which I hope will go towards a remedy. All have been taken on or approaching rally grounds and…

  • Showmans Vehicles

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    I don’t know whether we’ve touched on this topic before, but I thought I may as well send these pictures in to be used in a gallery. They were all taken by me in 1961, except three, Bristol L EHN 547, West Yorkshire CWY 964 and DWW 586 which were given to me by the…

  • Dennis Ace YD 9533

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    As a former Dennis apprentice I was very pleased to see this fine example of Southern National YD 9533 fleet number 3650, a 1934 Dennis Ace bus. It was on display at the Summer Fayre at Aylesford Priory on 22nd June 2014 and I thought you may like to see the very amateur photographs I…

  • Sandsend

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    Sandsend is a village on the North Yorkshire coast two miles north of Whitby. It lies at the bottom of Lythe Bank, a lengthy gradient of 1 in 4 which takes the main road from the coast to the moors. The village was served by United’s Middlesbrough – Whitby – Scarborough service, originally service 65,…

  • Newcastle Bus Stations – Part Three

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    Not seen this gallery from the beginning, click here Haymarket & Eldon Square Haymarket is the only one of the original three still in use, most services were operated by United, although Newcastle Corporation Transport had two, the NGT, Tynemouth & District and Wakefields Motors subsidiaries ‘Percy Main’ had three. The service 5, to Darras…

  • Newcastle Bus Stations – Part Two

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    Not seen this gallery from the beginning, click here Worswick Street The opening of the Tyne Bridge in 1928 saw a huge upsurge in cross Tyne bus movements, and services which had previously terminated in Gateshead could now continue on to Newcastle. As a result, a new bus station was needed to accommodate the extra…

  • Newcastle Bus Stations – Part One

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    When I started driving buses, Newcastle had three bus Stations, Haymarket, Marlborough Crescent and Worswick Street. That was in 1967, Eldon Square came later, and as far as I can remember Gallowgate was at that time a United depot/workshops, which after the creation of NBC became the start point for long distance services. There were…