Tag: Newcastle Corporation
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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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BUT Three Axle Newcastle Trolley
I lived on the No.34 trolleybus route on the Wallsend section in the 1950s and 60s and throughout my early childhood became very fond of these Q1 type 1948 batch with the drop down windows. The very distinctive livery of mainly yellow and cream brightened up the dreary post war, landscape, stained by years of…
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Newcastle Corporation – Leyland Titan – LVK 11 – 359
Photograph by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Newcastle Corporation1949Leyland Titan PD2/1Leyland L27/26R Yet again another shot from the job lot of shots I bought at the market I’m afraid there is no information on the photo. But staying on the low bridge theme of Newcastle Corporation that…
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Newcastle Corporation – Leyland Titan – NBB 286 – 286
Copyright Unknown Newcastle Corporation1950Leyland Titan PD2/1Leyland H30/26R A 1950 H30/26R all Leyland Titan of Newcastle Corporation. One of 52 of the type delivered between 1948 and 1950.PD2/11948 registrations LVK 115/136 fleet numbers 115/1361950 registrations NBB 281 – 300 fleet numbers 281/300PD2/31950 registrations NVK 301/310 fleet numbers 301/310In addition, there were six L27/26R PD2/1 low bridge…
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Newcastle Corporation – Leyland Titan PD2 – NVK 304 – 304
Newcastle Corporation1950Leyland Titan PD2/3Leyland H30/26R Another from Newcastle City Libraries archives. From the caption at the bottom, the location is West Clayton Street Newcastle, which is literally just round the corner from the Central Station. The date is 1952; the buses are lined up ready to depart for Gosforth Park Racecourse, about three miles north…
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Newcastle Corporation – Karrier E6A – BVK 810 – 20
Courtesy of Newcastle City libraries archives. Newcastle Corporation1935Karrier E6AMetro-Cammell H33/27D The last Tyneside and Tynemouth and District trams ran in 1930 and 31 respectively, they were replaced by motor buses, but Newcastle Corporation decided on trolleybus as tram replacements. The Tyneside and T&D tram networks were small in comparison, so the change came very quickly;…
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Newcastle Corporation – Guy BTX – FVK 109 – 109
Newcastle Corporation1937Guy BTXNorthern Coachbuilders H33/27D Once again, these photos are from the Newcastle City Libraries Archives. They are pre delivery publicity shots of FVK 109, a 1937 Guy BTX, and were taken at the Northern Coachbuilders works which was located on Claremont Road Newcastle, my records suggest that the vehicle may have been a one…
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Newcastle Corporation – Daimler COG5 – HTN 222 – ?
Photograph by “unknown” – if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Newcastle Corporation1939Daimler COG5Northern Coachbuilders H56R What looks like a pre delivery photo of three Daimlers for Newcastle Corporation, “note the blue light to the side of the destination blind†this has been commented on before on this site. Going by…
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Newcastle Corporation – BUT 9641T – LTN 479 – 479
Newcastle Corporation1948BUT 9641TMetro Cammell H40/30R Another from the Job lot of photos I bought a while ago this time an atmospheric shot of Newcastle’s Byker Depot in 1948. An impressive line up of 20 new BUT 9641T’s with Metro Cammell H40/30R bodies, they were LTN 479 – LTN 498 fleet numbers 479/98. Newcastle ordered 70…
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Newcastle Corporation – AEC Regent V – 158 – 158 AVK
Newcastle Corporation1957AEC Regent V MD3RVPark Royal L30/28R In 1956 Newcastle took delivery of 20 AEC Regent V’s with Park Royal H34/28R bodies, they were XVK 137 to XVK 156 and were numbered 137/156. The following year another 20 arrived, registered 157 AVK – 176 AVK and numbered 157/176 – 167/176 were the same as the…