Southdown: An old friend emerges from it's leafy green sleep

Following the break up of the National Bus Company at the end of the Eighties Southdown's return to something like it was before Nationalisation felt quite heartening. The fact that it only went so far in recreating the old magic of what was once one our favourite operator's can quickly be dismissed with sorrow for almost in the blink of an eye it was gone again. This time the apple-green and cream on Nationals like 104 would be smothered in those much derided Stagecoach stripes.