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Newsflash - Tiger Loose in Bristol Bus Station
75th Anniversary of Associated Motorways – Saturday & Sunday 24/25th May 2009
The weekend’s festivities which have been organised between Kelvin Amos & Ian Lloyd-Owen, include a Road Run from Bristol Bus Station to Aust Services, departing at 9.48am on Saturday 23rd May 2009 from Bristol Bus & Coach Station, which I am very proud to be part off with my lovely Plaxton 3500 bodied Leyland Tiger (FRU675Y).
The festivities run right through Saturday and in to Sunday, where there is a Coach Rally to be held at the infamous site which once was the home of Black & White Motorways, the one and only St Margaret’s Coach Station in Cheltenham. This location is synonymous with coaching through the ages, and at one point during its heyday, used to have 8 or so mass departures during the day, with the very famous 15.00 departure, which on a Summer Saturday could have as many as 300 coaches leaving Cheltenham at once to various locations across the country. The M5 and motorway services put paid to Cheltenham, but as Mike Walker told me once, you may not have got many pics when I was a lad, but the memories are still there.
Well done to Kelvin, Ian and all the others involved with what promises to be a cracking weekend for us Coach Enthusiasts, and here is to this being an annual occurrence!
FRU is seen on "The Stand" in Bristol Bus & Coach Station, awiting the off for the run to Aust
Newsflash - Tiger Loose in Bristol Bus Station
75th Anniversary of Associated Motorways – Saturday & Sunday 24/25th May 2009
The weekend’s festivities which have been organised between Kelvin Amos & Ian Lloyd-Owen, include a Road Run from Bristol Bus Station to Aust Services, departing at 9.48am on Saturday 23rd May 2009 from Bristol Bus & Coach Station, which I am very proud to be part off with my lovely Plaxton 3500 bodied Leyland Tiger (FRU675Y).
The festivities run right through Saturday and in to Sunday, where there is a Coach Rally to be held at the infamous site which once was the home of Black & White Motorways, the one and only St Margaret’s Coach Station in Cheltenham. This location is synonymous with coaching through the ages, and at one point during its heyday, used to have 8 or so mass departures during the day, with the very famous 15.00 departure, which on a Summer Saturday could have as many as 300 coaches leaving Cheltenham at once to various locations across the country. The M5 and motorway services put paid to Cheltenham, but as Mike Walker told me once, you may not have got many pics when I was a lad, but the memories are still there.
Well done to Kelvin, Ian and all the others involved with what promises to be a cracking weekend for us Coach Enthusiasts, and here is to this being an annual occurrence!
FRU is seen on "The Stand" in Bristol Bus & Coach Station, awiting the off for the run to Aust