Northern Bus departed from it's normal livery to paint this former Maidstone and District Bristol VR in Sheffield into Tilling Green. I'm not sure what Bradfield Bus meant but I am left with a feeling that a lot of the enthusiast led 'hobby' operators were doomed to fail eventually. Not because they ran the business badly but it's hard to mix business with pleasure when there are hard-nosed competitors snapping at their heels trying to trip them up or take them out.
Google suggests that Bradfield is an parish north-west of Sheffield on the edge of the moors. I guess "Bradfield Bus" was branding for a service for that area.
ReplyDeleteNorthern were an interesting operator who carved themselves a niche in between the big operators covering services the big boys didn't seem interested in at the time. Whether they had any long term future is anyone's guess because post-deregulation operators came and went rapidly regardless of ownership, culture or funding levels!
Thanks Ross for checking. Yes Warstone Green Bus did very much the same and lasted a good few years running out to the rural villages on the Staffordshire Shropshire border.
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