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Delaine, Bourne, Lincolnshire
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…
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Showmans Vehicles
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…
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Dennis Ace YD 9533
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…
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Sandsend
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,…
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Newcastle Bus Stations – Part Three
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…
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Newcastle Bus Stations – Part Two
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…
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Newcastle Bus Stations – Part One
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…
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Newcastle Corporation Follow-Up
A follow-up to the recent thread posted by Ronnie Hoye of a line up of Newcastle Corporation buses lined up for a race meeting at Gosforth Park Racecourse. Ian T put in a query about Newcastle’s CVG6s with Birmingham style bodies and what appears below is an answer to that. In 1948 Newcastle Corporation received…
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Vaggs Motors of Knockin Heath
The County of Shropshire was traditionally served by Midland Red in the south and Crosville in the north. The area in between was home to a number of interesting independent operators. One of the largest was Vaggs Motors of Knockin Heath. The first photo shows a typical line up at the depot. Seen in 1972…
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Doncaster Independents – Two
A week or so ago a large selection of scans were emailed to me from David Oglesby headed as ‘Several old Doncaster area bus photos’. As there is already a Doncaster Independents gallery by Roger Cox and seeing most of the shots were of independents I decided to follow the film industry and headed this…