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The 2015 annual gathering of the SVBM at Lathalmond in Fife was held on the weekend of the 15th and 16th of August with all the usual exhibits and stalls for enthusiasts keen to enjoy a myriad of vehicles old and new.
Like most years the presentation of buses owned by the Lothian Bus Consortium proved to be as popular as ever but a low attendance could be observed this time, even with the weather delivering blue skies and warm sunshine.
The Scottish Vintage Bus Museum is at the forefront of historic bus restoration and operation in Scotland and houses, on a 49-acre site, about 190 vehicles. Around 160 are buses, most of Scottish origin, in varying levels of condition, from fully restored to dilapidated.
The museum is open every Sunday from Easter until the first Sunday in October. The entrance charge includes a guided tour of the site and the storage sheds in a vintage bus, starting and ending at the Exhibition Hall where visitors can spend as much time as they wish.
The Exhibition Hall houses several vehicles and artefacts, and also the museum cafe and shop. A new roof was fitted recently, that improved the natural light immensely.
In the mid 1950's Edinburgh Corporation Transport undertook a major tram replacement programme and purchased three hundred Leyland PD2 double deckers in three batches, 401 to 500, 501 to 600 and 701 to 800..
Here is OFS 777 working a Service 36 to Saughtonhall, a terminus this bus would frequent regularly for nearly two decades.
At the rear an Alexander Olympian Royale, 1308D (R308 LKS) and this vehicle looks loved and cared for - far better looking and sounding than anything from 'that' company I've seen in current service.
0268 A1 Service. KXW10. Leyland Titan PD2.7RT - Metro-Cammell. {1949}. Ex London RTL660. Kilmarnock, 26 Mach 1977.
PD2/3 No.136 in Christchurch Road, Near Lansdowne on 19/6/69. A good deal of the trolley wires had not yet been removed giving the strange sensation of expecting a trolleybus to appear at any minute!
Ex Chesterfield PD2 70SRB at North’s of Sherburn in 1981. This had been used by a local farmer since 1978. An unidentified ex Potteries RE alongside.
I was told on the journey down to Dewsbury bus station from Dewsbury Bus Museum that I was on the first passenger carrying journey of this bus for 46 years, which would make this departure back to the museum it's second such journey. West Riding Automobile Company 640 is a 1948 vintage Leyland Titan PD2/1 with Leyland bodywork which was finally brought back to the road in 2012 after extensive restoration and is owned by the West Riding Omnibus Preservation Society. After withdrawal in 1967 it became driver trainer A13 until 1975 before being accquired for preservation.
Having hired a car, areas other than Douglas could be explored.
Taken from the car at St.Johns is Road Services No.74, a 1949 Leyland PD2/1-Leyland - this bus is now preserved. 30/6/71.
Burnley PD2/12 EHG725 (ex 225) parked in Thornton Road, Bradford on 24/6/72. I never discovered what it was doing there.
Blackpool PD2/27 buses 334 and 337, in use as Permanent Way gang buses 434 and 437 in front of the Fitting Shop, Rigby Road works, Blackpool. Saturday 03 October 1981
Both buses were taken out of passenger use in April 1975 and converted for PW duties. 1978. 334 replaced former PD2/5 bus 246 and 337 replaced 300. At first they both carried their passenger fleet numbers until becoming 434 and 437 in May 1978. In November 1988, 437 was renumbered again to 258.
334 was taken out of PW use week ending Friday 31 October 1986 and left Blackpool on Saturday 04 April 1987.
337 was taken out of PW use circa February 1988 and left Blackpool on Friday 22 December 1989.
1973 was my last year as a student conductor at BCT and I worked on both of these buses.
Photograph copyright: Ian 10B. Slide No. 984
Ex-Newcastle Corporation PD2 no.123 pictured inside Slatyford Depot in the company of "Newcastle Technology Bus", ex-Tyne & Wear PTE Scania Metropolitan 484 (RCU484S) and Busways Dennis Dart / Alexander Dash 1714 (K714PCN). (14th March 1993: Sl. 939)
Seeing out its final days as a driver training vehicle, Blackpool PD2 / MCW No 368 sits outside in the rain, while its trainee driver and instructor take a break in the depot canteen at Rigby Road on 6th August 1979
There were only three of these attractive 1949 Leyland PS2/Burlingham single-deckers and all three have been preserved! Here is No.87 , heading one of Bournemouth's PD2/3's - No.133 from 1950 - at the Mallard Road depot on 19/6/69.
Leyland PD2 / 37 - Met- Camm H65R .
New to Manchester Corporation ( 3646 ) during July-1961 , and still painted in their Livery with the Corporation Transport Crest .
In Lower Moseley Street Bus Station , Manchester , about to leave for Glossop , Derbyshire . Working on "Limited Stop" route 6 .
Saturday 09th-January-1971 .
This preserved 1955-delivered Leyland PD2/11 double-decker, Leeds 207, UUA 207, is seen outside Woodbank Garden Centre and was being used to run shuttles from and to the Keighley Model Railway exhibition from Keighley and Bingley. 28/2/2026.
The Ulster Transport Authority bought many half-cab Leyland single-deckers in the early post-war years, which quickly became out-dated and unsuited to changing traffic demands. After purchasing several batches of new double-deckers, it set-about rebuilding 158 Leyland PS single-deckers to PD2 specification and rebodying them with highbridge double-deck bodies, built in its own workshops on frames supplied by MCW. Newly-rebuilt UZ 681 entered service as fleet number K681 in 1956 and lasted until 1971. It is depicted here, towards the end of its working life, in the later UTA eau-de-nil livery (28-Mar-20).
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A narrow sliver of sun is enough to catch IOM Road Sers PD2 No.61 along Loch Prom,Douglas - late eve 1/7/71.
The Wirral is quite small as places go but during my formative years in the 60s there were three operators of public buses with fiercely defended territories. Birkenhead buses were blue and Wallasey buses were yellow and each stuck to their own boroughs. Crosville were green, but they only passed through the area with strict restrictions on where passengers could get on and off.
The only territorial concession was two routes operated by Wallasey Corporation between the resort of New Brighton and the depths of Birkenhead bus country where I lived. Consequently, I have a firm association between yellow buses and days out at the seaside.
This is a preserved Wallasey Corporation 1951 Leyland PD2 that would have been working during the 1960s. It is shown working route 1, which was the first Wallasey route to be taken over by Leyland Atlanteans in the early 60s.
New to Lancaster City Transport(204), in 04/1965, this tidy PD2 is seen here on display at the Gateshead Metro-Centre Rally, on 12/07/1998. After life with Lancaster City Transport, it passed to Lonsdale Coaches(Sutton), Heysham, for use on the Taylor-Woodrow contract on the construction of the Heysham Nuclear Power Stations 1 & 2. It then saw use with Northern General and Go-Ahead Northern(T591) as a driver trainer prior to passing to The Tyneside Omnibus Co. It is still in preservation today albeit in the Ensignbus heritage fleet, at Purfleet.
The camera being a Praktica MTL3 with the film being the Boots Colourslide II.
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This smart Titan PD2 was the first numerically in a batch of three, 39-41, supplied new to the small Lancashire municipal in 04/1968. It passed to Borough of Blackburn Transport, along with the remaining buses in the Darwen fleet, when the undertaking was merged with its larger neighbour on 01/04/1974 under local government reorganisation. It is seen here on A589 Marine Road Central, Morecambe, opposite the Winter Gardens, having just arrived when operating on heritage service 423 17:00 Heysham Village Bus Terminal - Mazuma Stadium, at the Ribble Vehicle Preservation Trust's Morecambe Rally & Running Day, who's main base for the day was the Mazuma Stadium, home of Morecambe FC, on 22/05/2022. © Peter Steel 2022.
A Portsmouth PD2 looking Regent in Paignton.
In the summer of 2015, Stagecoach Devon's tentative dip back into the Torbay open top market, begun in 2014 utilising the companies ex Portsmouth Leyland Titan 19992, returned, however for this year the bus operated on dedicated open top service 200, rather than slotting in hourly on the regular 22 service between Paignton bus station and St Marychurch (a Trident or Dart operated the service between South Devon College and the bus station) as had been the case the previous year.
19992 was captured upon its return to Paignton from another trip to Torquay.
Leyland Titan PD2 / 30 - Weymann L58R
New to this Operator during September-1956 .
MHJ924 stands just outside the Corporation Bus garage , in Southend-on-Sea , Essex .
22nd-August-1971.
One of the last traditional Leylands delivered in 1966 - L424 was originally Birkenhead 134 and had suffered a repaint to the drab Liverpool green - and a painted rad! ( PD2/37 - Massey. )29/3/75.
Rawtenstall Corporation 1953 Leyland Titan PD2/12 - RTC822 is preserved in the livery of the erstwhile Scout Motor Services Limited, a company taken over by Ribble in December 1961. RTC 822 is owned by Quantock Heritage as part of their hire fleet and is a Leyland bodied Leyland PD2/12 that was new to Rawtenstall Corporation in October 1953.
Photo taken at the Merseyside Transport Trust Open day at Burcough, West Lancashire, on 31st July 2022.
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Potteries No.L453 , a 1949 Leyland OPD2/1 with a 1954 Northern Counties body at the LT Chiswick Gala. 2/7/83.
This 'cut down' PD2 was new to Barrow Corporation Transport(165), registered CEO952, in 07/1958, and fitted with stylish double-deck Park Royal bodywork. It was one of ten delivered to Barrow, 161-70, CEO948-57. Luckily enough two others are preserved, both being under the care of a member of the Barrow Transport Group. They are 169/70, CEO956/7. It ended it's Barrow days as a well respected driver training bus. Moving to the capital, it's top deck and rear end was cut down and fitted with this 'open-staircase' vintage replica, with the lower saloon remaining largely unaltered. It is seen here resting on Wilton Road, Victoria, London, in 07/1993, with this photo being taken a couple of days after the previous photo of the same bus on Park Lane. It then moved on to Mac Tours, Edinburgh, Scotland, then onto Celtic Travel, Llandiloes, Wales, where it was last heard of. Re-registered TRN662A with Barrow, it received this 'LST' plate at LST! It reverted back to TRN662A with Mac Tours and passed to Celtic Travel, via Ensign(dlr), Purfleet, in 2010. It was then re-registered again, this time to 349LVO.
The camera being a Praktica MTL3 with the film being the excellent 'Fujichrome' colourslide.
I would request, as with all my photos, that they are not copied or downloaded in any way, shape or form. © Peter Steel 1993.
Leyland PD2, belonging to Delaine busses stands at Rippingale during the company's Heritage running day
Portsmouth Corporation Metro Cammell bodied Leyland Titan PD2 4/LRV996 seen at an Esso garage in Fareham.
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I've had the base image of this preserved Manchester Corporation Leyland PD2 for a while; I was unsure what to do with it when Howard Piltz sent it speculatively. Whilst broadly similar to the Crossley bodies seen in a number of fleets, I believe that this MCW design was unique to Manchester Corporation. Salford's green buses ran into Manchester and, whilst it traditionally favoured Daimlers, it did operate some Leyland PD2s. This fictional image omits some of the distinctive Salford characteristics, such as the framework for the route blind changing apparatus, and the wings would most likely have been green - but I hope these inaccuracies can be overlooked (25-Feb-15).
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NKT896 Leyland PD2/12 with Leyland H32/26R body new in August 1951 to Maidstone & District as DH400.
Amberley Museum - Southdown Bus Day - 27th September 2015
An ex-Edinburgh Leyland PD2 is seen at Cunningham's garage in Underwood Road, Paisley. Scanned from a print which I bought on e-bay.
Leyland PD2 Titan of Central SMT at the Transport Museum at Glasgow in June 2018. Bonkle is a real place! (Click on image to see full-size)
Ribble Leyland PD2 No.1467 makes its rally debut following restoration at the Ribble 2022 running day.
A lovely shot of one of Edinburgh's Leyland Titan PD2s, on the old 34/35 service and with one of their own design 'portcullis' bus stop flags on 'Staybrite' posts. In the background a Concrete Utilities 'Avenue' lamp post and a mercury lantern before Edinburgh went sodium. The picture is, I think, in Leith and it is indeed in John's Place; the 21 (before it became the 1 as a full circile) and 34/35 ran this way until about 1958 when it appears to have become peak hour only operation?
The vehicle, NSF 728, is one of the several hundred lightweight MCW bodied Titan PD2/20 type bought in the mid-1950s by the Transport Department primarily to replace the city's trams. They lasted for many years in service up until the early 1970s.