Busworld Photography

BUSWORLD PHOTOGRAPHY

I AM CHRISTOPHER LEACH THE ARTIST. I started this blog so that I can share with everyone my vast collection of transport photographs showing a personal and nostalgic view of the industry with images that span some 45 years taking in the U.K and some of Europe. I have no darkroom and so rather than being the perfectionist after tidying them up I upload the images warts and all, and even those that won't scan squarely or are scratched. In a way it adds age and character. You are all free to download these for your personal use but please remember I still own them and you are not just free to use them without prior permission for any knd of publishing. Click on images to enlarge them and if you want to see more leave your comments or visit my website for the mother-site with galleries including those Buses & Girls: PICTUREWORLD

Saturday, 7 August 2010

Maidstone & District in Penshurst

Maidstone & District S303 a 1960 Weymann bodied AEC Reliance passed through Penshurst on the 93 Tunbridge Wells circular to Edenbridge one damp Saturday in September 1967. Despite being in bus livery this batch of buses in fact had dual-purpose coach seating for forty.

Friday, 6 August 2010

The bus to Herlev

It might be grainy but I love this view taken at Hillerod to the north of Copenhagen of a very attractive Carson/VBK bodied Volvo dating from the Sixties seen in 1979.

Big and small at Frauenfeld

Even Switzerland has to find ways of saving money and dial-a-ride minibuses become a useful tool for the Post Office. A VW stands alongside one of the Mercedes-Benz 0405 buses that formed most of the local PTT Garage allocation at Frauenfelt in the early Nineties.

Thursday, 5 August 2010

Arriva in Tamworth

The Arriva depot at Tamworth seems to be well blessed with new buses like this 2008 Unibus bodied Scania about to work the old Midland Red 765 route to Lichfield. When I was a schoolboy it ran all the way to Nuneaton and Coventry and took about two and a half hours to make the trip.

Lancashire United Transport

Preserved buses tend to have a rather artificial 'rosy grow' so it was nice to see this pre-war Leyland Tiger of Lancashire United Transport at the 'Trans Lancs' Heaton Park Rally last year looking slightly worse for wear as it would have been during the long war years

Monday, 2 August 2010

Duple 320 and 340 at Bretonside

Wilfreda of Adwick-le-Street had a pair of these Scania coaches with Duple 320 bodies delivered in 1989. No.37 G21 HKY was parked alongside a re-registered Leyland Tiger of Mayne's F55 HNC at Plymouth Bretonside showing us a comparison between it and the bigger Duple 340.

The Optare Delta: A modern Classic

I don't think many modern buses will be remembered as being classics but the attractive and pleasant to drive Optare Delta was perhaps an exception. PMT tried ten alongside unsuccessful Leyland Lynx buses but neither got a big order as the operator went for more smaller buses like the ubiquitous Dennis Dart Plaxton Pointer combination. The regulars on the trunk service to Stafford from Hanley which at one time even reached Leek to the north-east included SAD 802, H802 GRE .