113_4057 York City Buses 1984
On Friday I made one of my periodic visits to The Forsythe Collection at the National Railway Museum, York. The target on this occasion was to photograph the mass of bus/public tranport timetable books of the United Kingdom. Not railway issue but often having railway content. There were 22 archive boxes to photograph and I returned with about 775 jpg files each file covering between 1-4 pieces. These I now have to crop, copy and save and separate to get one labelled file per item which named in operator date order will reveal how many items are in the 22 boxes and what they are. Enabling me and York to answer enquiries about what can be checked. This example was clearly pertinent to York. A Bristol VR in what in 1984 was a retro livery representing the joint interest in West Yorkshire as a National Bus Company and the City of York in the city services which went back to the bus company taking over the city trams. This mega useful site explains a bit sites.google.com/site/pacerchaser/york-area-bus-fleet-lis.... Doing this job I was really struck how even in the four years since the last material went to York, this whole genre is well on the way to history. Few local authorities publish this material at all. Dumfries & Galloway Council still does, and of the companies most publish leaflets rather than system books.
113_4057 York City Buses 1984
On Friday I made one of my periodic visits to The Forsythe Collection at the National Railway Museum, York. The target on this occasion was to photograph the mass of bus/public tranport timetable books of the United Kingdom. Not railway issue but often having railway content. There were 22 archive boxes to photograph and I returned with about 775 jpg files each file covering between 1-4 pieces. These I now have to crop, copy and save and separate to get one labelled file per item which named in operator date order will reveal how many items are in the 22 boxes and what they are. Enabling me and York to answer enquiries about what can be checked. This example was clearly pertinent to York. A Bristol VR in what in 1984 was a retro livery representing the joint interest in West Yorkshire as a National Bus Company and the City of York in the city services which went back to the bus company taking over the city trams. This mega useful site explains a bit sites.google.com/site/pacerchaser/york-area-bus-fleet-lis.... Doing this job I was really struck how even in the four years since the last material went to York, this whole genre is well on the way to history. Few local authorities publish this material at all. Dumfries & Galloway Council still does, and of the companies most publish leaflets rather than system books.