WNOC 676 0958hrs Pulla Cross to Truro March 1977
Another March 1977 shot of a Western National Bristol SU/ECW combination in Truro and this time we see 676, one of the longer SUL4A types, on Green Street as it arrives with the above journey on Wednesday only service 588. The route taken from Pulla Cross to Truro ran by way of Cusgarne, Twelveheads, Bissoe, Baldhu and Threemilestone with three journeys each way. Although similar in operation to the seven shopper buses introduced from w/c Monday 26th July 1976, the 588 was acquired in May 1938 along with the business of Alfred J Richards who traded as City of Truro Tours and somehow it survived the 1971 cull of services. The background is dominated by the Public Rooms and in front of them we can just see a couple of vehicles belonging to Tremain of Zelah (Bedford SB5/Duple - 729 XPF) and Morse of Veryan (Bedford SB5/Duple - FCV 274L) parked up on The Green Bus Station. The Green was for many years the main terminus of the numerous independent operators who once ran into Truro and today it is the site of the modern Truro Bus Station.
Vehicle 676 was delivered new to WNOC in May 1966 and it appears to have led a fairly uneventful life before being withdrawn from active service in February 1979. The PSV Circle record that it passed to a WNOC employee for conversion to a caravan and I understand that there is a shot of it in this guise elsewhere on Flickr.
WNOC 676 0958hrs Pulla Cross to Truro March 1977
Another March 1977 shot of a Western National Bristol SU/ECW combination in Truro and this time we see 676, one of the longer SUL4A types, on Green Street as it arrives with the above journey on Wednesday only service 588. The route taken from Pulla Cross to Truro ran by way of Cusgarne, Twelveheads, Bissoe, Baldhu and Threemilestone with three journeys each way. Although similar in operation to the seven shopper buses introduced from w/c Monday 26th July 1976, the 588 was acquired in May 1938 along with the business of Alfred J Richards who traded as City of Truro Tours and somehow it survived the 1971 cull of services. The background is dominated by the Public Rooms and in front of them we can just see a couple of vehicles belonging to Tremain of Zelah (Bedford SB5/Duple - 729 XPF) and Morse of Veryan (Bedford SB5/Duple - FCV 274L) parked up on The Green Bus Station. The Green was for many years the main terminus of the numerous independent operators who once ran into Truro and today it is the site of the modern Truro Bus Station.
Vehicle 676 was delivered new to WNOC in May 1966 and it appears to have led a fairly uneventful life before being withdrawn from active service in February 1979. The PSV Circle record that it passed to a WNOC employee for conversion to a caravan and I understand that there is a shot of it in this guise elsewhere on Flickr.