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Go-Coach 7533 YX74 ODP is seen on Royal West Kent Avenue, Higham Wood whilst working route 208. Friday 11th April 2025.
Alexander Dennis E20D - Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 MMC (Ex-Hulleys of Baslow - previously registered YX24 OVK)
R&W's back yard was notoriously difficult to get photos in, as vehicles were generally parked very tightly side by side. The only decent one I could get was a Leopard that most of us on the trip knew quite well, having been with SELNEC / GMT when new, although it had arrived here a few months earlier via a non-PSV owner in Burnley. It had quite a decent run here, staying with D Coaches until 1995.
R&W returned to buying middle-aged Leopards once Bus Grant money had run out, but the arrival of three elderly Leyland Nationals in 1987 was a sign that the end might be near ! Just visible in the background of this shot is their lone rear-engined double decker, Atlantean OVK 144M, the first d/d since Guy Arab YTH 815 in 1962. It left the fleet early in 1987, so we never got to see it on the road with them.
Depot, 18/6/86
Land Rover ambulance DS57 OVK of Mercia Accident Rescue Services at the Throckmorton Airshow on the 7th June 2014.
Both Pikachu's were auctioned off for charity (closing time 23rd december at noon). See stop motion here : www.youtube.com/watch?v=f39oKd9_oVk
This image depicts an unlikely scene, not because the two buses did not co-exist in the liveries depicted - but because they operated the Bishop Auckland to Willington service in different time periods. Bond Bros of Willington was a latecomer to double-deck operation, acquiring a pair of former Kingston-Upon-Hull Leyland Atlanteans in the late 1980s; which were subsequently replaced by a pair of former Grampian Transport Daimler Fleetlines, one of which is depicted on the left here. The sudden and unexpected demise of Bond Bros saw OK Motor Services – by then owned by the Go-Ahead Group – assume operation of Bond’s Bishop Auckland-Willington service. OVK 138M (on the left) was one of four 1973 Leyland Atlanteans with Alexander AL bodies acquired in 1982. It was the last to be withdrawn in 1997, by which time Go Ahead had closed the former OK depot and withdrawn from the area (15-Sep-21).
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Both Pikachu's are being auctioned off (closing time 23rd december at noon). Both Pikachu's were auctioned off for charity (closing time 23rd december at noon). See stop motion here : www.youtube.com/watch?v=f39oKd9_oVk
Go-Coach 7533 YX74 ODP is seen here on Pembury Road about the join the A21 on the outskirts of Tonbridge whilst working route 208. Friday 11th April 2025.
Alexander Dennis E20D - Alexander Dennis Enviro 200 MMC (Ex-Hulleys of Baslow - previously registered YX24 OVK)
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Hill's, Tredegar (GT)
F597 BTG Leyland TRCL10/3ARZM / Plaxton Paramount 3500 Mk III C51FT 3/89
Globus Gateway lettering;
reregistered to JSK 328 9/93 (after sale), F679 OVK 3/95, MIL 9580 10/96;
later with Northern National (DM) 7048 6/92 to 5/95 then Brighton & Hove (ES) 510 to 11/99
Grasmere 07/08/91
A lovely old 760 GLE in stunning condition. Current owner since March 1997. The cushion in the back window to me shouts elderly owner.
An unidentified Alexander Atlantean may be from the OVK-M batch? and driver trainer DT629 at Slatyford depot autumn 1981.
SVK629G Ld PDR1/1 803158 Ar J10/666/28 H44/26D 4/1969 Newcastle 629
The building of the Metro required that a considerable number of PTE vehicles were required to operate the rail replacement services around the North Tyneside loop. These were generally older vehicles which were due to be replaced, the PTE tending only to keep buses for few years. One such vehicle was OVK 139M which was based at Whitley Bay depot and operated by United. It is seen at the end of shift awaiting refuelling.
Stagecoach East Midlands 10742 SN66 VXK, 10745 SN66 VXO, 27879 FT13 OVK, 10744 SN66 VXM, 10741 SN66 VXJ & 10748 SN66 VXS seen at Hull Interchange
- Fleet: —-
- Reg: OVK 902 (SF07 YTR)
- Operator: Snowdons Coaches
- Route: Megabus
- Depot: Peterlee
- Livery: Snowdons
- Type: Volvo B12BT
- Bodywork: Plaxton Panther
- Livery New In: CityLink
- New to/ Year: Parks of Hamilton / 2007
- Location: Market Street, Newcastle
DSC_4236 - OVK 902 - Volvo B12BT/Plaxton Panther - Snowdon Coaches (On Hire To Megabus.com; Ex-Park's/N.A.T. Group H5 KFJ/LSK 873/SF07 YTR) - Victoria, Bulleid Way 21/09/17
The building of the Metro required that a considerable number of PTE vehicles were required to operate the rail replacement services around the North Tyneside loop. These were generally older vehicles which were due to be replaced, the PTE tending only to keep buses for few years. One such vehicle was OVK 153M which is seen on service R5 outside Tynemouth Station on a service to Central Station shortly after buses had replaced the train service between Newcastle and Tynemouth via Wallsend
DSC_1428 - OVK 902 - Volvo B12BT/Plaxton Panther - Snowdon Coaches (On Hire To Megabus.com; Ex-Park's/N.A.T. Group H5 KFJ/LSK 873/SF07 YTR) - Victoria, Buckingham Palace Road 23/09/17
One of my favourite liveries on the classic Alexander AL bodywork, Tyne & Wear Atlantean 340 (OVK 140M), is seen leaving Tynemouth Metro station on a Metro-Link service.
It had been delivered to Tyneside PTE in 1973, the year before the enlarged operation became Tyne & Wear after local government changes
Snowdon Coaches Neoplan coach, reg. no. OVK 902, seen here in Elizabeth Street, London near Victoria Coach Station. This coach was on hire to Stagecoach Megabus and was the coach that took us to London from Cwmbran, South Wales.
The picture was taken on 14 August 2014.
One half of OK Travel's exhibits at the Busways Festival Of Transport at St James's Park ,Newcastle on May 28th 1995 were ex Tyne & Wear PTE Alexander bodied Atlanteans OVK 138M and SCN 269S (The other half was ex VFM Buses Atlantean MBR 448T and the odd rear engined Tiger Q723 GHG)
Wearing South Shields Busways livery, Alexander bodied Atlantean 243 was another ex TWPTE bus caught on film during my visit to the North East in 1991. This bus has a more conventional internal layout, with the stairs built into the offside of the bus behind the driver's cab, unlike Fleetlines 814 and 835, posted earlier.
The location is Fowler Street, South Shields, 23rd August 1991.