The Seventies and here the Eighties is far enough away for us now to feel nostalgia for the NBC and even it's ubiquitous Leyland National. That applies even more so to them when they were nicely turned out in suitable surroundings like Midland Red 626 here in Banbury where they were still pleasingly using the old 'BMMO' B for 'Banbury Town Service' prefix.
Surprisingly - or possibly even amazingly - the B-prefix is still used for Banbury locals by Stagecoach today.
ReplyDeleteBanbury is no longer Midland Red, though; in historic terms it's arguably now Bristol Omnibus (!) as it comes under Stagecoach West (formerly Cheltenham & Gloucester Omnibus, the hived-off northern bit of BOC) which took over the Oxfordshire bit of Stagecoach (Thames Transit, so a dereg-era newbie) fairly recently.
Nice to see you back, Christopher, and I look forward to seeing many more photos and having many more memories reawoken.
Ross very nice to hear from you too, yes as the blog is still intact I thought I might as well keep it going as it's very easy to do posts. As you illustrate so well the bus industry has a very complicated recent past, my aim perhaps is a more informal approach. I find the more I write I get wrong!
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