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Midland Red North 1912 on the Birmingham to Essington (via Walsall) X32 service, Saturday 28th March 1987.
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By the time that I took this picture in the mid 1980's, working Harrington bodied coaches were something of a rarity. There could be little doubt that the Grenadier was a true classic of the mid '60's, in fact a well presented one such as 487 GFR didn't look out of place here. The operator of the Reliance was Abbot's Coaches of Blackpool, a longstanding AEC user until they ceased operating. The shot was taken on one of those fortuitous occasions when things actually worked out!... it nearly was so different. The location is Colwyn Bay, and was prior to the opening of the A55 North Wales 'Expressway'.
Seen laying over in London after operating a South Wales to London National Express service was VPH 50S, an AEC Reliance 6U2R with Duple Dominant II Express C53F body which was new to London Country Bus Services as it's RB50.
It was in the ownership of Peake, Pontypool and was sporting some recently acquired damage aft of the nearside front axle.
Thandi Coaches . Smethwick, West Midlands . T900NDY ( ex YN51XMV)
Neoplan N122 / 3 - CH75DT
Dunstable Road , Coach stop . Luton . Thursday 15th-April-2010
An ex Trathens Coach !
AO02 RCX, a Plaxton Paragon coach formerly of First Eastern Counties, arriving into the Belshotmuir Depot in North Lanarkside. It becomes only the second coach in the First Lanarkside fleet and will be used for express service work.
In reality, RCX did serve with Eastern Counties before joining First Glasgow for use on the Lanarkshire Express X1 service between Glasgow Buchanan Bus Stn and Hamilton via High Earnock. However for this, it wore a unique livery of all over white, with willow leaf and route branding.
Rather frighteningly, this picture of Bristol Omnibus's RE EHW 314K was taken virtually thirty years ago. Although I don't feel that old, the evidence is stacked against me! I took this shot in the wonderfully interesting location that was Cardiff bus station circa 1980, as the NBC 'Local Coach' liveried Plaxton bodied RELH was about to leave on the X10 semi fast to Bristol, it's home city. The fare advertised stikes me as pretty good value even then at under two pounds return.... wonder how much it is now?
arriva midlands have brought back the X31 route with the introduction of a fast cannock-birmingham express service using the M6 and serving cannock / great wyrley / cheslyn hay / new invention / short heath and bentley.the X31 was originally a rugeley-hednesford-cannock-birmingham service in the late 80's & operated by midland red north,arriva's predecessor,under the "midland express" banner .this brings a 2nd direct service to the town serving birmingham alongside cannock's best kept secret,the TWM X51 service. the X31 is a hourly service with 12 departures & seems to be aimed primarily at the lesiure market with the buses branded accordingly & the timetable offering money-off vouchers for various attractions in the city. the X51 has 3 departures aimed squarely at the commuter & runs to walsall & then via scott arms,giving a journey time of some 1hr 15mins.the X31 in contrast has been taking approx 50 mins on the 0615 departure & is a viable alternative to the train although it is subject to the many changable moods of the M6! here we see scania omnilink 3812 YNO8HZZ on the inaurgural departure on the 25th waiting to leave cannock bus station on the 0615 service.sister route branded bus on the service is 3811 YN08HZY. whilst modern designs are perhaps not to my taste,the buses have brightened up the cannock bus scene whilst the paint is still new & shiny & have been turning heads even amongst the normals :-) it is quite exciting when the driver dons his or her flying helmet & goggles,winds up the bus to take-off speed & thunders off down the sliproad onto the M6!! I'M THE X31,COME FLY WITH ME !!!! :-)
Maidstone & District Motor Services . C4 104PKP
A E C Reliance . 2MU3RV - Harrington
Parked up in side street , near Victoria Coach Station . during the Summer of 1966
Carrying route details for Express service E19 to Leysdown , which I believe served a '' Holiday Camp'' ( Hi-Di-Hi ) , on the Isle of Sheppey , North Kent.
6848 slithers its way from Coventry to Birmingham; X1 journeys were missing out Meriden due to the weather - but they may have been reinstated by the time I took this photo.
Bowling along into Blackpool is Plaxton Panorama Elite bodied AEC Reliance 760, HVU 243N. Many of us have commented on one anothers photostreams about how much we miss this operator and it's wonderful AEC Reliances, so we won't go there again.
I've electronically twiddled with this picture many times before arriving at something I dare exhibit, but even now it's of dubious quality. I took it as a 'grab shot', and using a 'tele -converter' lense, before I was acquainted with the limitations and implications of such.... so it was doomed on at least two counts. The original has a pronounced colour cast, and the neg is very grainy.
Not just a run of the mill Leyland Tiger, C426 YBA was a TRCLXCT/3RZ model which denoted a Gardner engine and a ZF gearbox. it carried a Plaxton Paramount 2 3500 high-floor C51F body.
It joined the fleet of Barry Cooper, Stockton Heath, who were owned by Mayne, Manchester and carried a similar livery.
Personally, I thought these motors looked superb even though they sounded somewhat different from what you expected.
It was photographed in Blackpool in 1986.
On Romford's Ring Road (as it was termed when it was opened in the 1960s ) is RF101 ,it has just arrived from High Wycombe on the Northern Orbital Green Line Coach Route 724, with in those days did not serve Heathrow Airport !
Midland Red 5839 JHA839E (LS20)
Leyland Leopard PSU3/4R Willowbrook DP49F
It's late on a Summer Saturday afternoon in August 1967 , coaches are queuing up to enter London's Victoria Coach Station .
As it is a Summer Saturday , these Dual -Purpose vehicles have been pressed into Coach service .
A paper sticker on the windscreen tells passengers that this ''Leopard '' will Have journied down the A41 via Aylesbury, and not the Motorway , from the Midlands to London .
Image scanned from a slide/negative purchased on Ebay with copyright included.
Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria, London.
March 1991.
An unusual allocation to a Timesaver service was this Fleetline, seen on service 979 on Wolverhampton Bus Station.
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Commuters arriving at Los Angeles Union Station pass under a banner promoting the Metro Gold Line's new express service. The public began using Express service on February 13, 2006.
Harvested from and more information found in the February 9, 2006 issue of MyMetro, the LACMTA employee news digest:
libraryarchives.metro.net/DPGTL/employeenews/mymetro/2006...
Transbus Dennis Trident - Alexander ALX400
Leaving Northampton's Bus Station and heading for Peterborough on an X4 working on a dull damp day in May-2007
East Midland Motor Services. S507 OAL507F
A E C Swift MP2R / Marshall B45F
I seem to remember that there was an audible gasp from the enthusiasts who used to frequent Victoria Coach Station in London, on Saturdays in the 1960s.
On this particular day , in August 1968 , a Coach heading for London on a Yorkshire Services Pool , Express Service , was failed by its Driver in Chesterfield , and this was all they had spare to bring the (luck-less ) passengers on to London.
Still most of us all ''copped '' an almost new East Midlands Service Bus that Saturday !
Platinum branded (service 957) 6714 waits for time on Station Road in Solihull town centre on 9th October 2016 - ready for a dash back to Birmingham via [in part] Coventry Road. Like the associated service 900 - both are run by B'ham Central garage using Enviro 400 MMC's 6701-18 This batch are set to be replaced by newer MMC deliveries during the last few months of 2016.
Abbotts of Blackpool. REV597H and YRN507R. Both AEC Reliance`s.
Photograph taken at Cleverlys Garage.
Abbotts was a well known Blackpool coach firm.
For many years they also had a regular schedule express service from Blackpool and Fleetwood to Manchester and Bolton area`s..
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Participants including tribal leaders, princesses, floats, Veterans Groups, and drum groups parade through downtown Oklahoma City to celebrate the opening of the Red Earth Festival in downtown Oklahoma City.
Photographed in St. Andrews Square bus station, Edinburgh is A507 PST a Leyland Tiger TRCTL11/3R with Duple Laser C46Ft coachwork.
It was fleetnumber E5 in the Highland Omnibuses fleet.
Visiting Gloucester Road Coach Station, London in April 1986 was FDD 109T a Bedford YMT with Plaxton Supreme IV Express C53F body, one of quite a few similar vehicles in the fleet of Swanbrook, Staverton, Gloucestershire.
Participants including tribal leaders, princesses, floats, Veterans Groups, and drum groups parade through downtown Oklahoma City to celebrate the opening of the Red Earth Festival in downtown Oklahoma City.
One of four Volvo B9R Plaxton Panther coaches delivered to Edinburgh Coach Lines for use on Megabus Service M92 from Edinburgh to Dundee is BX11 GVY.
It is seen at SVBM, Lathalmond 21.08.11.
The unsettling looking ticket collector seems to be taking a larger part of the branding on these coaches.
My former employer has placed five of these smart Scania/Irizar into service. This has enabled them to double the frequency of the Derby to Chesterfield section of the Red Arrow service, and to increase the frequency on the Derby - Nottingham express service to every 10 minutes through the day. The vehicles feature a wheelchair lift amidships on the nearside and have leather seats and on board wi-fi as well. I've never driven one, nor will I (probably) have the chance to, but they are smart pieces of kit all the same, and a far cry from a Plaxton-bodied Leopard.
Image scanned from a slide/negative purchased on Ebay.
Elizabeth St/Buckingham Palace Rd, Victoria.
18th June, 1983.
Midland Red 5853 JHA853E
BMMO S21 DP49F
Victoria Coach Station. September-1967.
These were the final series of vehicles constructed entirely at BMMO's Carlyle Works . These semi-coach S21s were based on the S17 bus shells , but with interior coach fittings, fixed windows and more comfortable seats
Volvo B12B - Caetano Enigma C49FT
New to this Operator during March-2006.
Elizabeth Street , Victoria , London .
Wednesday 26th-May-2010
Route 724 (Special Service/Green Line Express) : High Wycombe, Bus Station - Chesham, The Broadway
š The Broadway, Chesham
Taking part in the Amersham & District Motorbus Society Running Day centred on Chesham Broadway 6.10.24
Eastern National 1607, 1964 Bristol RELH6G ECW DP47F. Taken at Derby bus station next to Trent Leyland Leopard 253 in 1969.
Title: East End of Passenger Yard, New Haven Union Station
Descriptive Information: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/20433864
Date: Ca. 1961
Photographer: Guinea, Edgar R.
Creator: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
Image ID: 5003pb56f058
Collection: U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs (#5003 P)
Repository: The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in the ILR School at Cornell University is the Catherwood Library unit that collects, preserves, and makes accessible special collections documenting the history of the workplace and labor relations. catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel
Collection Information: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05003p.html
Copyright: The content in the "U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs Collection" (Kheel Center collection: #5003 P) is believed to be in the public domain, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [www.library.cornell.edu/about/inside/policies/public-domain]. These images have been digitized from items in the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives at Cornell University Library. More information about the physical collection can be found here: rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05003p.html. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.
Title: Denver Union Terminal Tracks and Train Sheds
Descriptive Information: hdl.handle.net/1813.001/20988422
Date: Ca. 1961
Photographer: Shimel, Walter
Creator: Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (BLF&E)
Image ID: 5003pb63f080
Collection: U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs (#5003 P)
Repository: The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives in the ILR School at Cornell University is the Catherwood Library unit that collects, preserves, and makes accessible special collections documenting the history of the workplace and labor relations. catherwood.library.cornell.edu/kheel
Collection Information: http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05003p.html
Copyright: The content in the "U.S. President's Railroad Commission Photographs Collection" (Kheel Center collection: #5003 P) is believed to be in the public domain, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [www.library.cornell.edu/about/inside/policies/public-domain]. These images have been digitized from items in the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives at Cornell University Library. More information about the physical collection can be found here: rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/KCL05003p.html. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.
Volvo B10M-60 - Plaxton Premiere C50F
New to Wallace Arnold Tours during April-1993 . Joining this fleet during June-2003 .
JIL5144 is departing from Buchanan Bus Station , Glasgow , Scotland . Working on one of their express services .
From my purchased print collection , exact date of shot unknown
First Berkshire ( First Beeline Buses Ltd ) VNX37275 ( GL5 ) LK58 EDJ
Volvo B9TL 10.4m - Wrightbus Eclipse Gemini CH65F
Elizabeth Bridge , Victoria , London . Wednesday 28th-October-2009
East Midland Motor Services . C283 LAL283E
A E C Reliance 2U3RA / Alexander Y C49F
This coach and its companion are turning into Victoria Coach Station , London , during the High Summer of August-1968 . Prior to working as ''Duplicate cars '' on a Yorkshire Services pool working as far as Sheffield.
This Midland Red North coach is in full Midland Express livery.
It is seen at Beechdale Estate terminus of the hourly short workings from Birmingham on this service.
This was a former trolleybus terminus (regularly used 1955 to 1963, then emergency use only unitil 1970) and so should have been adequate for coaches to use. However, parked cars could create problems with coaches having to cut the corner and partly drive on the grass.
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