JPL 171K London Country in St Albans

Garston Allocated Leyland Atlantean PDR1 AN71 meets a Staines depot Duple bodied AEC Reliance RB 52 as they pass through St Albans in the Eighties. Despite it's high running number 94 Staines Garage only had an allocation of 27 or less so maybe it was a 34.

The Wait is Over but the 828 was on time

There is something about going for a walk and taking a camera with you. The sun came out and the lady wearing a bright red coat made it a good potential picture. Arriva wants to cut the recently introduced 828 Stafford to Brereton service but the contract is meant to run till Spring. Normally it is 55-Plate Plaxton Darts but newer spare VDL's feature as well like 3757. Note the concrete bus stop post a reminder of the old pre-NBC Midland Red as is the 800 series route numbers they used for out of town services in the Stafford area.

Optare Metro Shuttle in Manchester

The centre of Manchester not only looks but feels completely different to how it was in the Sixties but still just as scruffy little pockets of it still remain such as the area around Oldham Street and Withy Grove where a modern Optare works the Metro Shuttle but I well remember a similar inner circle service which used smart new Leyland Tiger Cubs in blue airport livery before they were replaced by the Park Royal Panther Cubs.

Maidstone & District EKL 456K

At Lincoln a Marshall bodied Leyland Leopard in Maidstone and District colours makes the first steps on the homeward journey after the museum open day.

Reynard Bustler FOD 94!Y

Still in Reynard's livery was this Bedford with quite rare Plaxton Bustler bodywork seen in York but now as can be judged by the high fleet number part of the former West Yorks PTE which had extended itself beyond the former industrial municipal operations heartland of West Yorkshire when it took over York from the former BTC and later NBC West Yorkshire.

Swiss PTT Mercedes-Benz Post Buses at Brugg

Rather like in Britain the northern Germanic area of Switzerland has a number of quite decent sized small towns that one has never heard of and they often seem much larger as they are also usually busy railway centres like Brugg which is also an important post bus hub.

Crosville Lodekka Trainer in Chester

By the time I took this outside London half-cabs in service were becoming rare but thankfully we could still see a few on the streets working as trainers like former DFG 235 in Chester.