tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739101691621668323.post3359179361901849959..comments2024-01-20T00:37:19.914-08:00Comments on Busworld Photography: My Mis-Spent Youth: A Head Full of Buseschristopherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16558136434796233937noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739101691621668323.post-19173171791435951232018-04-02T03:04:51.784-07:002018-04-02T03:04:51.784-07:00Sorry I missed this reply Philip, but I'll see...Sorry I missed this reply Philip, but I'll see if I can find you a Wilts and Dorset if you are still watching.christopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16558136434796233937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739101691621668323.post-4692265412199364092017-03-01T03:58:06.512-08:002017-03-01T03:58:06.512-08:00According to PSV Circle H&D Fleet History PK 7...According to PSV Circle H&D Fleet History PK 781 Bristol K5Gs 1115/1116 (FRU 826/7) were withdrawn from passenger service 10/64 and 12/63 respectively. They were converted to driver training vehicles retaining original fleet numbers in 11/64 and 10/64 respectively - 1114 (FRU 825 had been so converted earlier in 1/61. They were sold for scrap in 8/70 (1114), and 5/72 (1115/6). The Dec 1965 Ian Allan ABC probably did not list trainers.<br /><br />Route 106 was a high summer seasonal service between Poole and Swanage. It would have been worked by a Poole depot vehicle with black on blue fleet number plate. <br /><br />Hope your treatment goes well. Maybe we can look forward to a Wilts & Dorset picture? Philipnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739101691621668323.post-28828506166221866512017-02-28T08:17:32.272-08:002017-02-28T08:17:32.272-08:00Hi Philip thanks for your comments. you sound like...Hi Philip thanks for your comments. you sound like a H&D expert so I wonder if you could answer a couple of questions as I noted down No.1115 and also I think 1116 stored at Bournemouth in early 1967 when both had already gone by Dec 1965 according to my Ian Allan ABC.<br /><br />I have a good collection of EFE's from that era and I have the H&D downgraded coach and the other thing I want to ask is should YEL 226 be doing the 106 from Bournemouth to Swanage if it carries a black on orange Lymington plate but I expect it was just EFE not bothering to get the details right as usual if it was not LT.<br /><br />Thankschristopherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16558136434796233937noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1739101691621668323.post-90423272154528014122017-02-27T01:48:52.893-08:002017-02-27T01:48:52.893-08:00Assume your pic was taken at a recent Alton Runnin...Assume your pic was taken at a recent Alton Running Day. Traditional 'green-liveried' Hants & Dorset bus services never reached Alton in Hampshire. H&D first got to Alton in 1972 when, under NBC auspices, it fully absorbed Wilts & Dorset and thus reached Alton on former W&D route 107 from Basingstoke. H&D's livery was changed to NBC Poppy Red at this time. BET company Aldershot & District was the dominant operator around Alton and had a garage there - A&D morphed into Alder Valley in 1972 under NBC. Southdown served Alton from 1955 with lengthy route 38 from Portsmouth which covered BR's withdrawal of the Alton - Fareham train service. The 38 was abruptly withdrawn in 1973 due to unsustainable subsidy costs. Alton was the only place where Southdown and Wilts & Dorset bus routes met up and both operators outstationed a bus at the A&D garage. Independent Warrens Coaches (Altonian) ran a few local country routes. Nowadays bus services around Alton are largely in the hands of Stagecoach South. Philipnoreply@blogger.com