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Graham's S2 in 1988 was TWN 698S a Leyland Leopard with Plaxton Supreme coachwork new to West Wales Motors,Tycroes in 1978 and acquired from them in 1984.
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In 1985 the service description "Timesaver" previously only used by Ribble was adopted by WMPTE for a revamped Birmingham - Coventry service.
Travel De Courceys MAN Evolution, AE06 OPH returns from Rugby with a 585 service to Coventry Railway Station. 27th April 2015
One for my Dutch friends I think - a bookshop find in Huddersfield today. Quite a fun cover this, summing up the open roads of the Netherlands and its landscape in the 1950s. NACO's fleet, pictured inside, included what seems to have been quite a sizeable fleet of British built Crossley coaches, not common machines.
1950 Dennis Lance GOU 845, Aldershot & District Traction Co. Alresford Railway Station, Hampshire, UK.
2019/05/05
Coming out of Heathrow Bus Station is London Country TL9 (TPC 109X), a Leyland Tiger with ECW bodywork. Working Green Line 704 to Windsor
State/Province: Bavaria
Agency: Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft - Busservice Watzinger GmbH
Model: MAN A21 Lion's City NL363 + Hess O2897
Year: 2018
File Name: 4845
Another early Leyland National (to go with the Cumberland example posted the other day) seen in Nottingham on Saturday 11th September 1976. The National was nothing if not standardised. The customer could choose either the 10.3 or 11.3-metre version with either one or two doors. Taking a rather starry-eyed view of things, Leyland made a left-hand drive version available for the export market. This bus is of the 1051/2R variant ...10.3 metres with Leyland 0.510 engine (there was no other) with 2 doors and right-hand drive.
Two-doored versions of the short version must have been relatively uncommon, but I believe Nottingham City Transport acquired these buses for a specific purpose ...a free, close-headway, circular service in the centre of the city. There were a number of experiments with free or near-free bus services around the country at this time. By "free", of course, we mean subsidised from the rates. None lasted long in their original form.
The trouble with close-headway urban services is that the headway tends to get closer. Another National on the same service has caught up. The leading bus is probably a few minutes late. Unlucky with traffic lights a couple of times perhaps. The extra wait leads to a bigger build-up of passengers at bus stops. Loading therefore takes longer and the bus is further delayed. As the bus drops behind its schedule, the following bus, with a shorter-than-usual interval ahead, tends to creep up on its predecessor. The matey thing to do is to overtake and pick up some of the load. A failure to do this (known in Bristol Omnibus Co. lingo as "dogging" ...presumably to follow in the manner of a dog) may be resented by the driver of the earlier bus. Fisticuffs have been known to result. A Midland General Bristol FLF bringing up the rear by the look of it.
NY Waterway operates some of the ferries on Manhattan's West End that connect to Jersey. These International RE buses make up the bulk of their bus fleet, which is used as a shuttle service to supplement the ferry and services many stops on popular MTA routes in midtown.
London Country AN97 MPJ197L (HG) and Eastern National BN2810 FWC428B at Walton on the Naze, 7th August 1977.
This picture and others is available on Smugmug here: andrewcolebourne.smugmug.com/AWC-Pictures-Buses-and-Coach...
State/Province: Bavaria
Agency: Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft - Busservice Watzinger GmbH
Model: Solaris Urbino III 18
Year: 2012
File Name: 4847
A photograph from the Annual Report of the City Transport Department that was for the year ending 15 May 1975. This was of course the last annual report issued by the Department ending the story of the municipal operation that had acquired the city's tramway system in 1919. The 16th May 1975 saw the undertaking transfer to the new Lothian Regional Council. The bus appears to be one of the JSC E Leyland Atlantean PDR1/1's with Alexander single door bodywork delivered in 1967. Interestingly it appears to now carry the Lothian coat of arms on the front panel showing that the image was taken after the 'takeover' from ECT.
The picture shows one of the city's "Limited Stop" peak hour 'express' bus services and this is one of two routes, the 70 and 73, that served western suburbs and were re-routed to take advantage of the new Western Approach Road thus avoiding some of the city's traffic blackspots on the approach to the city centre; you could equal argue that the new road simply dumped the traffic on to Lothian Road and made the West End junction here even worse!
The Western Approach Road opened on 15 December 1974 and was in many ways to be simply one component of a wider and highly contentious programme of urban road construction in Edinburgh, the story of which would fill a book. The WAR was delivered because it largely used railway trackbeds and infrastructure that had lain unused since the closure of Edinburgh's Princes Street station, the old Caledonian Railway's gateway to the capital in the 1960s. British Rail constructed new connections and junctions in the Slateford area that slewed the old Caley lines north to Haymarket thus allowing access to Waverley station and closure of the lines east to Princes St. So the Western Approach Road arrived, with some odd bits and pieces of access and deviation around some existing features.
The roadscape looks very different now with new build both at the 'city' end and along the Approach Road that makes it look quite a mature feature of the cityscape.
When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
Travle De Courcey offer a half-hourley service (585) between Coventry and Rugby. Only half a dozen of these services make the extra trip to Monks Kirby. Here, after making a brief stop at the village, Evolution 543 (AE54 JRV) prepares to continue its journey to Coventry.27th April 2015
Busservice Watzinger GmbH & Co. KG: at Münchner Freiheit hub, the bus with register plate M WA 8778 (Solaris Urbino 12) working a service for Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG) in the line 148.
1/76 scale model representation of an Alexander Y Type body Leyland Leopard in the livery of Henderson Travel of Hamilton. A second Henderson model can be seen in the background in the form of a Mercedes minibus. This model is based on the real life SCS 334M which was new to Western SMT before transferring to Northern Scottish then Henderson.
Established in 1983 Henderson Travel unfortunately collapsed suddenly on the 29th of October 2014 after 31 years of service. Having operated under brothers John and David Henderson for many years, problems became rapidly evident in the final 6 months of operation following a takeover bid involving Caribbean registered companies with alleged “shadow directors”, coach dealership Kinglong Direct and Bakerbus. Allegations were made that up to £50,000 worth of garage and office equipment “vanished” hours after the company went bust, leaving over 100 drivers unemployed and unpaid for the previous fortnights work.
The majority of its SPT (Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, formerly Strathclyde Passenger Transport) tendered services and employees being taken on by McGills. One remaining SPT service between East Kilbride and Hamilton via Strathaven was picked up by Whitelaws of Stonehouse, who already operated the service during the day, with Henderson having covered evening and Sunday services until their collapse. As stated above, the majority of drivers took up work with McGills, who also agreed to pay the wages owed by Hendersons/Bakerbus.
These model representations/tributes to the 31 years of independent bus operations are both Code 3 repaints, done by me using transfers by Sunrise. Both models were finished in a clear gloss varnish.
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Painted in an all over advert livery for National Express, Bristol 6500 (PPH 461R) rounds the St James Barton roundabout, nearing journeys end at Marlborough Street.
This highbridge VRT was new to London Country as BT1
SNC200 laying over in Allsop Place, Baker Street, on 18th June 1979 waiting to take up one of the remaining peak hour only journeys on route 709. It retains a full depth destination blind rather than a masked down single line display which was more common by this time.
In 1985 the service description "Timesaver" previously only used by Ribble was adopted by WMPTE for a revamped Birmingham - Coventry service.
In 1985 the service description "Timesaver" previously only used by Ribble was adopted by WMPTE for a revamped Birmingham - Coventry service.
In 1985 the service description "Timesaver" previously only used by Ribble was adopted by WMPTE for a revamped Birmingham - Coventry service.
Of all the buses I ever operated, this was high up in my list of favourites. In a hurry to get it out and play with it, I did something I really disapprove of, and ran it in it's former operators' colours. The livery here was a modification of it's last but one owner's, and the firm from which we acquired it, Blue Triangle of Bootle. The base cream and the maroon stripe was that applied by Bowman's of Carlisle, the blue, by the Liverpool business.
This picture was taken in Oulton near Stone, Staffordshire whilst working an afternoon County Council tendered journey in the mid 1990s. The bus had been ordered by South Wales Transport, but had been diverted to London Country where it saw out most of it's working life. LCBS referred to the class as SMA... this being SMA3. JPF 103K carries Alexander's panoramic windowed W type body. Of all the Swifts I've had the pleasure of operating, this one had the most pleasant demeanour, and the most taught bodywork. Like so many others, the bus was sold to a well meaning preservationist who set out with great intentions... only for it to end up in Ripley's scrapyard, Barnsley a couple of years later where it's remains languished for many a while.
Busservice Watzinger GmbH & Co. KG: at Münchner Freiheit hub, the articulated bus with register plate M WA 9560 (Solaris Urbino 18) working a service for Münchner Verkehrsgesellschaft (MVG) in the Metrobus line 59.
I copied the bottom one to make the top one.
This was the flyer for the get you home group of night services in Wolverhampton, they were numbered 901-904 and used Metrobuses pn them.
Maastricht, 17 September 2016.
Seen with the KLM Busservice which operates between Maastricht, Eindhoven and Schiphol Airport.
In an earlier posting of two South African Railways class 24 steam locos on shed at night, I mentioned the Passenger service on the Breyten - Lothaire branch. It's always a dangerous thing to stick you neck out with any degree of certainty, when you're not totally sure... but this I believe to be the branch line's passenger service. I never saw a rail passenger service at the time of my visit in 1984, but this International 6x4 tractor with semmi-trailer and drawbar luggage van wouldn't have been far off the length of the necessary train! It's seen here loading on the approach road to Breyten station.
Lijn A aan het tijdelijke eindpunt Place Anatole France, 13-5-2014.
Gedurende een aantal avonden werd de tramdienst beperkt tot het traject Vaucanson - Place Anatole France. Een vervangend busdienst "Plan B" reed van Anatole France naar Lycée Jean Monnet.
During a few evenings the tramservice was limited to the stretch Vaucanson - Place Anatole Fance and a replacement busservice "Plan B":took over the stretch Anatole France to Lycée Jean Monnet.
Pendant quelques soirées le service du tram était limité au trajet Vaucanson - Place Anatole France. Le service entre la Place Anatole France et Lycée Jean Monnet était assuré par bus sous l’indice B.
1:76 scale (OO Gauge) model of real life Y182 BGB in the livery of Hutchison of Overtown is now complete, following the application of correct VRM (Vehicle Registration Mark or “Number Plates”) and external mirrors.
With the real life, 1:1 scale Y182 BGB having entered preservation, stored at the Glasgow Vintage Vehicle Trust (GVVT) in Bridgeton, it has now been resprayed and refurbished to near as new condition upon delivery to Hutchison’s.
Autobus Solaris Urbino 12 CNG nr.656 di ACTV Venezia. Servizio extraurbano, bacino Nord, fuori servizio. Deposito Mogliano Veneto.
The Edinburgh City Transport routes in 1971 were still largely across the city centre as they had been in tramway days but in June 1971, ECT launched this new inter-suburban route 32 - a route number previously applied to a seasonal service between Waverley Bridge and Edinburgh Castle - which “provides connections between northern and western areas of Edinburgh without the delays of traffic congestion in the city centre and, in many cases, eliminates the necessity of changing buses”. Tbe new service was operated with “Pay-on-Entry” buses. On the 6th October 1974 the route was extended at both ends - from Leith to Portobello and Hay Drive and at the other end from Wester Hailes to Colinton, Oxgangs and Hyvots Bank. In April 1975 - just a month before ECT became Lothian Region Transport - the route became a complete circle with the remaining gap between Hay Drive and Hyvots Bank linked. Off peak daytime frequency was every 20 minutes. At some point after that, the service in the clockwise direction became the 52, with buses in the anti-clockwise direction continuing as Service 32.
Driver Bentos poses with his steed of the day, a 1968 Bristol RE-type with bodywork by ECW, at the Bristol Omnibus Company's Lawrence Hill Depot, Friday 27th August 1976. This ...apart from the centre exit door, which was a modification... is an example of the type as it first appeared in Bristol. After the plodding, 30ft, crew-operated, crash-gearboxed Lodekkas and 27ft K-types, these brisk, 36ft, semi-automatic vehicles, intended for one-man-operation seemed positively space-age. A driver who had previously worked for the chassis manufacturer, Bristol Commercial Vehicles, and had delivered early examples to the Company told me how drivers used to gather around them asking where the clutch was, how did you change gear, and so on.
The blinds upon which destinations are printed are known in the industry as "linens". This bus has a "T-box linen" ...i.e. the destination display is in the form of a T, with destination above route number. This configuration led to visibility problems because the top of the windscreen was low and when it rained the driver found himself looking through the unswept arc above the windscreen wiper blade. Accordingly the design was altered and a shallower "side-by-side" linen box was substituted. Yet, looking at the partially visible bus on the left, which is of the newer design, the windscreen is deeper but its top edge is at exactly the same level. So perhaps there was a more thoroughgoing re-design that involved lowering the driving seat. Anyway, the deeper windscreen and side-by-side linen box was an aesthetic mistake in my view ...although not as disastrous as the early-1970s redesign which brought rounded corners and a curved windscreen. Interestingly (to some) the curved front added 5 inches to the overall length of the vehicle.
In the second window are two notices, affixed by their gummed edges and produced by the Company's stationery office, probably giving notice of a fare increase and modifications to services. In the mid-1970s the former were at least a biannual event. Soon the latter would become bewilderingly frequent as young "new broom" managers, often straight from business college and with no experience of any industry, let alone public transport, were recruited in an attempt to run bus services according to commercial principles. Services such as the 99 (Stockwood-Avonmouth) which had been started by Greyhound Motors, a company taken over by BOC in the 1930s, disappeared. Others, belonging to the Company's prehistory, such as the 28 (Avonmouth-Withywood) and 21 (Filton- Ashton?) went the same way. Among "country" services, pre-First World War routes such as the 400 (Bristol-Stroud), 432 (Bristol-Cirencester) and ...my own favourite... the 526 (Bristol-Gloucester indirect) were severed at their midway points, so that through passengers had to traipse from one bus to another, usually with a 20-minute wait between arrival and departure. Why this was done, nobody could ever say. I am inclined to believe it was for one of two reasons; either a) a new manager trying to gain a reputation for thrusty innovation and impatience with established practice, or, b) the services were loss-making and if they could be made even more unattractive to the public a further, fatal, reduction in receipts might be used as a justification for withdrawing them.
Trying hard to remember here, but wasn't the Welsh capital of Cardiff chosen as a test-bed along with three or four other locations as a precursor to full bus service deregulation in 1985? I seem to recall independent operator CK embracing the spirit of the new regime and registering services which mirrored some of the incumbent municipal operator's better ones. From my odd visits, this seemed to be a fairly typical scene with a CK Ex London Transport DMS surrounded by 'Corporation' buses, some of which would almost certainly be operating as duplicates and spoilers. I regret that I don't know anything else about CK, where they came from, or what happened to them... though I can probably guess the latter.
Sandwiched between a Triumph 2000 and a Ford Granada, London Country series B Leyland National SNB454 (YPL 454T) is parket on the forecourt of Amersham Depot.
I could not believe that an 'out-of-action' bus could block a street for more than an hour.
More than an hour later I returned and the bus was still blocking the street.
I should mention that I used the bus service over a three day period in 2017 and found it to be good even if frequency was not as good as I had hoped.
If you intend to use public transport in Belfast I would advise you to purchase a travel pass. However as Belfast is more compact than you may expect it may not be necessary to use public transport. If you are visiting Belfast for the first time I would suggest that you use one of the tour buses with an open top as any that I have tried are excellent.
Also if you are over 66 years of age and are a citizen of the Republic you are entitled to free public transport in Northern Ireland [not sure if this will continue after Brexit]. For details visit www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social_welfare/social_welfa... The application process is not complicated so if you qualify get it sooner rather than later. In case you are wondering pensioners resident in Northern Ireland are also entitled to free travel in the Republic and many people take advantage of this benefit.
More information borderpeople.info/a-z/free-travel-scheme-for-senior-citiz...
When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
Arnhem 14-06-2024. Univers Busservice, Bonn BN-UR 758 (58), Mercedes-Benz Citaro GÜ mew in May 2023 on a rail replacement service to Oberhausen.
A colour, folding brochure giving details of the activities and services of the then nationalised National Bus Company and giving statistics as to bus and coach use. The NBC operated through a number of regional operating subsidiaries, grouped into a regional structure, alongside National Express coach services and National coach holidays.
The NBC was formed in 1969 to operate the various nationalised bus and coach operators in England & Wales but was broken up during the deregulation and privatisation of British bus and coach operations; the NBC ceased to exist in 1988. The brochure shows images of various service operations and 'behind the scenes' work that helped keep the show on the road.
Front view of three Code 3 Dennis Dart, Plaxton Pointer SLF (Super Low Floor), showing three variants liveries of the First Bus group in Glasgow, Lanarkshire and surrounding.
The two in red were full Code 3 adaptions, having been taken apart for interior decoration and respraying of the body. The third is a simpler Code 3, with previous area branding and legal lettering removed and replaced, and the destination screen altered to display service 263 for Hamilton Bus Station.
The First Kelvin brand was the first used following the takeover by the group of the previously employee owned KCB (Kelvin Central Buses) Network. KCB Network had an interesting history, going back to before de-regulation of the industry, when they were two distinct operators under the Scottish Bus Group. Kelvin Scottish and Central Scottish then merged.
When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.
Ah, the hope and aspirations! The informative booklet issued by the West Yorkshire PTE and describing the planning, construction and operation of Bradford's new Travel Interchange in 1977. The scheme was a long held aspiration of the City Council's post-war plan to essentially bring together the city's once separate motor bus stances and coach stations on the side adjacent to Hall Ings that had been identified in the first City Plan.
The scheme grew to include other features; firstly the relocation, further back, of the adjacent British Rail platforms at the old Exchange station. This did allow bus/train/coach interchange but it did mean that the British Rail facilities were a little further back from the city centre and further away from the opposing platforms at the city's other station, Foster Square. That 'gap' in Bradford's railway network has long been a source of contention and there was, once, a plan to connect the two. The desire to cut the tracks back was largely due to BR's ability to save money replacingt he Hall Ings overbridge as well as enabling demolition and redevelopment of the station site - and this can be seen on the aerial photograph. It's useful to see that for public transport the land was already being used a s a car park to accompodate the main form of competition! The BR part of the work was first to be completed and the new railway station and platforms came into use on 14 January 1973.
The second rationale behind the plan was to integrate, in the basement of the building, a new central bus garage and workshops that must have been seen as a real achievement at the time - a city centre location for the garaging and maintenance of a part of the PTE's Bradford city bus fleet. A third bonus was the construction of Metrochange House above, an eight story building that gave office accomodation for the PTE as well as space for the National Bus Company whose subsidiary West Yorkshire still operated services in the area as well as the National Express coach operation that used Interchange. The bus and coach station came into use on 27 March 1977 and allowed the closure of various city centre street terminal points and the old Chester St bus and coach station.
The Interchange has seen various changes since opening - most notably the demolition in 1999 of the overall ridge & furrow roof and this was followed by a remodelling of the bus station's layout and facilities in 2001. Further changes are being considered to both the bus station, now operated by West Yorkshire Metro, and the railway station.
When she was a child my mother, who is now 97, lived and went to school not far from Salthill which was at the time a very popular holiday destination.
As I have never liked Irish seaside resorts and as my mother has always described Salthill as similar to Bray I never bothered visiting until this week. While my mother’s description is accurate to some degree I would describe it as being more attractive than Bray. Unfortunately I rained for the duration of my visit and because of the overcast sky my photographs are less colourful than I would have liked.
Salthill is a seaside area in the City of Galway in the west of Ireland. Lying within the townland of Lenaboy, it attracts many tourists all year round. There is a 2 km long promenade, locally known as the Prom, overlooking Galway Bay with bars, restaurants and hotels.
Salthill was, until 2007, home to one of the biggest non-fee paying air shows in Galway, the Salthill Air Show, which took place in June over Galway Bay. The show annually attracted over 100,000 people and generated over €1m in revenue.
I got the 401 bus from Eyre to Salthill Promenade - there is a bus every twenty minutes. To the best of my knowledge the bus fare is Euro 1.80 each way but as I have a travel pass I did not have to pay.