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Reading Buses's Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC 758 YX64VRU made the trek to Detling Showground for 2022's South East Bus Festival and featured as part of the show's Diamond Jubilee parade, alongside entrants from Stagecoach and Go-Coach.
A June 2022 trip to Reading to ride the Reading Buses open-topper on service 17 plus a half hour photting passing buses whilst scoffing a meal deal!
Smoke at both ends – Celebrating the centennial of Souderton, Pennsylvania, Reading GP30 5513 is working to wheel the Souderton Railroad Days excursion past the Telford freight house. Providing the smoke on the other end of the train is Blue Mountain and Reading 4-6-2 425, drifting on the return leg of the trip.
One of the few shots taken of Wilts & Dorset buses - 1948 built Bristol K6b /ECW No.289 (FAM6) was attending a special run of London Trolley 260 at Reading on 8th.October 1967. The "London Transport" motif on the radiator is a nice touch - this was applied to new built buses transferred from Tilling fleets to LT - a temporary measure to cover shortages after the war.
On hire to Alder Valley in 1975 was Western National Bristol LD6B 1902 on a local service on 10 May. The bus was exported to Austria in 1977 and may still exist.
Fujica ST701/55mm
Ilford FP4
macromonday: the theme for this week is "when i was a child....." got a couple of possibilities but probably my fave is the cat :)
SC5/16 hobbies&interests
she has gotten into reading these days...her love for books has finally come, so i wanted to make sure and capture it. lucky for me she wasn't expecting me. if she knows I'm there, i very rarely get a good shot.
Our Daily Challenge 21-27 December : Everyday Objects Up Close
This is a revelation to me as I can't see how pretty they are without wearing them.....
Reading Buses Green Line liveried Alexander Dennis Enviro400 / ADL H47/32F 1214 DU62FHK passes the White Bus of Winkfield depot with their 5 new Enviro200 MMC buses on parade in August 2018.
The backbone of the Reading's second-generation fleet was four-axle EMD units. One of the newest additions, a GP39-2, lays over in Bethlehem with a GP35 and a GP30.
Bit of a lazy bus photting session in Newbury for me today (29/03/2021) as I opted to just stand around the town's newish bus station rather than go hunting for different locations etc. It was just nice to be outside in some very pleasant early Spring sunshine for a couple of hours!
Anyway, since my last visit in 2018, the scene has changed somewhat with a new and relocated bus station and a new livery adorning the Newbury & District fleet, part of Reading Buses of course.
Stagecoach turned up with a couple from Basingstoke and one from Andover, Reading Buses with a few from Reading, and a random training bus passed by for good measure!
Reading Buses were on rail replacement duties in Guildford in late May 2018. Among the buses used on the Bank Holiday Monday were Scania N280UD / Alexander Dennis Enviro400 City H45/26D 712 YP67XCG in two-tone purple livery for the Purple 17 route.
Reading Buses Enviro 400 City YP67XCS 721 is seen arriving at Reading Station on a 17 service, 28th April
Forbury Gardens
A public park located on what was once the site of the outer court of Reading Abbey
Reading Abbey was founded in 1121, by Henry I, and for the next four centuries, it dominated the town and was one of the most influential establishments in England.
Like other monasteries, Reading had a Forbury, or 'borough in front’. A Forbury was an area of open land that provided a meeting place between the Abbey and the town.
The Forbury in Reading was part of the outer court of the Abbey and provided the town with both a meeting place and a marketplace.
The abbey was largely destroyed in 1538 during Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries. The last abbot, Hugh Cook Faringdon, was tried and convicted of high treason and hanged, drawn and quartered in front of the Abbey Church.
After these events, the buildings of the abbey were extensively looted, with lead, glass and facing stones removed for reuse elsewhere, and the focus of the town moved away from the Forbury.
Fairs were held on the site three times a year until the 19th century.
The gardens are listed as Grade II in the English Heritage Register of Historic Parks and Gardens.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbury_Gardens
King Edward VII Box – Type WB2092/1
RG1 29
Abbot's Walk Gateway
Reading Buses: 701 (YN66 EZM) an Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 MMC, painted in two tone blue livery with Royal Blue branding, it is captured here at Anstey Park whilst attending the 2017 Alton Bus Rally & Running Day.
© Christopher Lowe.
Date: 16th July 2017.
Ref No: PJ/DSC_18455.
A year after the previous photo, on 13th June 1998, another Reading & Wokingham coach was passing through Dover. DAF SB2305 Van Hool Alizee WXI 5863 had been new to Peter Carol of Bristol as E629 KCX.
Location: Reading, Pennsylvania
Date: 2020.01.11
Inspired by a 7 year old. Reading & Northern 270 on display at Outer Station.
Reading Company Class EPa 834 at West Trenton, New Jersey on an unknown day in May 1962, Kodachrome by R. S. Short, Chuck Zeiler collection.
Seen departing Legoland in September 2018 is Reading Buses Alexander Dennis Enviro400 / ADL H47/33F 764 YY15OYF.
Seen in Slough in May 2018 is Reading Buses Alexander Dennis Enviro400 MMC / ADL H47/33F 757 YX64VRT working a 702 service to London Victoria.
On Sunday 24th October 2021, a large rail replacement operation took place in the Basingstoke area affecting the services of SWR, GWR and Cross Country. This resulted in a nice variety of vehicles turning up throughout the day - in fact 37 different operators were noted supplying 53 different vehicles!
Replacement bus services ran out to Andover, Reading, Winchester and Woking.
Reading GP30 3607 at Cumberland, Maryland on an unknown day in December 1970, transparency by Gib Allbach, Chuck Zeiler collection.
Fobney Lock Bridge over the Kennet canal. My local multiple exposure project continues.
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A look at some of the buses that were present at the Reading Buses Open Day in July 2018. They included Reading Buses 381 BG63VVA, a Mercedes-Benz City 45 9-seat minibus new to Avis Budget of Heathrow in 2013.
Reading monk. Leshan, China. After I returned to Chengdu, there were only 3 days left, so I decided to go to Leshan, and then Emeishan. Leshan is most famous for its giant Buddha carved in the mountain. Again, the crowd remained around the main point of interest, but as I walked away, I...