Category: Galleries
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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…
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Bristol SUL
I am new to this site and thought you may be interested in seeing a few shots of the Bristol SUL4A. The much missed Tillingbourne Bus Company. 417 HDV was very smart when first repainted into the Danube blue and light grey livery with a yellow stripe. These two shots were taken in 1972 in…
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Provincial Society Bus Rally August 2015
Here are few shots that maybe of interest, I took them at the Provincial Society Bus Rally, Stokes Bay, Gosport, on Sunday 2nd August. Pete Davies08/2015 RV 6358 is one of the large fleet of Leyland Titans operated by Portsmouth City Transport over the years. This one is a TD4 from 1935. She has an…
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Thames Valley ex Newbury and District Guy Arabs
In 1950 the Red & White group sold out to the British Transport Commission, and many of its smaller subsidiary companies were transferred to the management of the nearby Tilling operators. One such component company was Newbury & District which fell into the dubious care of Thames Valley, probably the scruffiest and least proud constituent…