Friday, 21 September 2018
Hereford a Midland Red Wanderward Bus in the rain
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2 comments:
The 'Wandaward' name was inherited by Midland Red West from Midland Red OC, it's one of the MAP names (like Chaserider) but by the time the MAP team got to Hereford depot they were clearly running out of inspiration!
Kidderminster's 'Wendaway' and Wellington's 'Tellus' perhaps worked as they at least sounded like words, but 'Wandaward'? Nope.
Midland Red West clearly felt the names didn't work as they soon dropped them, which means your photo must have been taken between the splitting of MROC in 1981 and MRW dropping the area names around 1983. I'd go for later in that period as the bus is showing service number 107 on a Hereford City service, which under Midland Red OC would have been service H7.
Yes Ross I sometimes spend a lot of time trying to look at the evidence and guess the date. A classic example occured when on eBay the other day I saw a BMMO D5B in Stafford bearing for the first time on a web photo S98 which went passed my house in Hyde Lea. I couldn't ever remember seeing 3863 here though so I looked it up and indeed it was never there accord to the official record. It spent most of it's life at Tamworth with a short period at Sutton. Later in life it spent time as an engineering floater but only for the eastern division. Unusually for Stafford the main top blind is not in use only the local via blind so I expect it was on a very short visit perhaps sent in a hurry by Carlyle Works on loan. As for the photo itself there is just a Ford Pilot coming passed which doesn't help, no people either to help date it either, but at least there are double-yellow lines in the street and The Top of the world making it The Sixties!
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