A Stevenson's Leyland PD3 far from home!

It was strange seeing this Leyland PD3 running around Plymouth in Stevensons yellow when CityBus bought it for driver training.

Smiths of Reading

A keen AEC operator I fondly remember Smiths of Readings distinctive red and blue livery as seen on this Plaxton Panorame bodied Reliance seen outside the Station.

Have I No Pride!

No I don't care if it is PINK when I'm taking buses and girls. The pastel shades chosen by the First Group for some of it's special liveries might not be very subtle but they make a pleasant change from all that grey. These Mercedes minibuses are getting quite rare now but they are still popular in South West England where rugged small buses are useful. Seen at Plymouth S529RWP started life on First's Worcester City Services which it inherited with Midland Red West.

Duple 425 Coach

Sadly not very many Duple 425 coaches were built but they got high profile treatment with Alder Valley who operated them on it's Londonlink services.

Most of the older Swiss Post Garages were like this consisting of a row of garage units with a workshop-wash and accomodation above. Even those green frosted glass in the door panels were normal, but at some garages if one couldn't see anything through a cracked pane or two they sometimes like at Scoul kindly painted the bus it belonged to on the wall. As you would expect there are no oil leaks on the ground or rubbish here just white snow. They had run Mercedes-Benz buses here since the mid-Seventies but immaculate but time-expired Saurer RH P25829 had found it's way here from Bullach as the garage spare.

Buses & Girls: A Dangerous Sport

When I look back at the things I got away with taking street photography I'm surprised I only had one nasty incident when I got my camera stamped on. Also it happens when one least expects it. I wasn't being too cheeky here as the girl was wearing shorts.

Tiverton & District

It would be interesting to see how a Leyland National looks in the pre-NBC colours of some BET Gtoup members like PMT or Yorkshire Traction. Well you couldn't do much better than take a look at this former London Transport Leyland National in service with the Tiverton and District operation of Red Bus in Devon. Red Bus in turn was a subsidiary of the privitised Southern National hence the former SN Bristol VR in the background and cast metal fleet numbers were carried too, a practice that had gone on since before the Second World War with Southern and Western National. Even if one wasn't aware that Tiverton and District was part of a larger group the high fleet-number of 2811 was a bit of a give-away as there were no more than 12-15 buses parked in a yard here.