Tag: Tynemouth & District
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Ex East Yorkshire Renowns
I would love to know what happened to the Renowns transferred from EYMS to Tynemouth. I guess it’s too much to hope that there’s one or two waiting to be discovered! Andy Ottaway 29/01/14 – 13:21 Six East Yorkshire Renown’s were transferred to Tynemouth and District, GAT 817/22D; they were repainted in the T&D livery…
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Tynemouth and District – Leyland Titan TD5 – FT 4498 – 98
Copyright Unknown Tynemouth and District 1938 Leyland Titan TD5 Weymann H??F More from my youth. 98 was one of eight 1938 forward entrance Weymann bodied Leyland TD5’s delivered to the Northern General subsidiary of Tynemouth and District. They were FT 4496/4503 numbers 96/103. About 1950 in common with many pre war vehicles they were given…
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Tynemouth and District – Leyland Titan PD2 – AFT 51 – 221
Photograph by ‘unknown’ if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Tynemouth and District1957Leyland Titan PD2/12Willowbrook H35/28R I think many of the job lot of anonymous photos I purchased must have come from the same source as the same locations crop up on a regular basis. Once again we are at the…
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Tynemouth and District – Leyland Atlantean – CFT 640 – 240
Copyright Ronnie Hoye Tynemouth and District Transport Co Ltd1960Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1Metro Cammell H44/34F Not very good photo of one of the first Leyland Atlantean PDR 1’s to be delivered to Percy Main depot, they were MCW bodied, and if I’m correct, they were the first in the Northern group but I don’t think they had…
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Tynemouth and District – Leyland Atlantean – FFT 757 – 257
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Tynemouth and District1962Leyland Atlantean PD1/1Roe H44/33R The early PDR1/1 and PDR1A/1 Leyland Atlantean’s have long been a point of discussion, and I was never a fan of them. The NGT Group had around 250 and the majority were Roe bodied, but…
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Tynemouth and District – Guy Arab – FT 9412 – 212
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Tynemouth and District1956Guy Arab IVPark Royal H35/28 Tynemouth and District had eight of these – FT 9408/15 – 208/15, but I’m not sure if they were in addition to, or part of the 28 ordered by Northern General Transport. Unlike the…
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Tynemouth and District – Guy Arab – FT 9005 – 205
Tynemouth and District1955Guy Arab IVWeymann H33/28R I’m not sure if these 1954, H33/28R Weymann Guy Arab IV’s were Aurora’s or Orion’s. Tynemouth and District had four; FT 7893/6 193/6; and when I started at Percy Main in 1967, they were the oldest D/D vehicles in service. This livery style was current when the vehicle was…
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Tynemouth and District – Guy Arab III – FT 6572 – 172
Photograph by “unknown”if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Tynemouth and District1949Guy Arab IIIPickering H56R Here’s another odd ball for you, it’s a Guy Arab from Northern General’s Tynemouth and Wakefields subsidiary. I would guess from the registration it’s from about the late 40’s. I don’t know how many were in…
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Tynemouth and District – Guy Arab III – FT 7388 – 188
Photograph by “unknown” if you took this photo please go to the copyright page. Tynemouth and District1952Guy Arab IIIWeymann H30/26R On the last leg of its journey from Whitley Bay St Mary’s Island to Newcastle Haymarket, this 1952 H30/26R Weymann bodied Guy Arab III was one of ten in the NGT Tynemouth and District fleet;…
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Tynemouth and District – Daimler Fleetline – HFT 367 – 267
Tynemouth and District1963Daimler Fleetline CRG6LXWeymann H44/33F HFT 367, fleet number 267: A Weymann H44/33F bodied Daimler Fleetline CRG6LX. One of 35 delivered to Percy Main between 1963 & 68. The location is the Gibraltar Rock Public House “reflected in the windscreen” this is at the end of Front Street Tynemouth, and was the terminus of…