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 Oxford, High Wycombe, The Chilterns & surrounding areas

 Issue 216
Monday 16th September 2002

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Welcome to issue 216 with bumper contributions from you, the readers.

This week I heard that one of Oxford's main street had been voted among the worst in the country. It seems that Cornmarket is less than popular in its new pedestrian guise. This is very sad for such a beautiful city and one hopes that something can be done to recover the situation. I work in Staines where the high Street has just been pedestrianised and can say with experience how very attractive it has been made. It would be nice to see Oxford's Cornmarket receive the same treatment which would, I am sure, result in a very different vote. Of course one must not forget the cost of such projects and money may be short for such things in Oxford. I mention the foregoing because Oxford relies on visitors to make much of its revenue and the bus services are also affected. I am sure it must not be easy being a councillor and having such weighty problems on the agenda.

Geoff Cunliffe, a regular correspondent from Lytham St. Annes wrote of his visit last Friday to Oxford. He says "the following day, Friday 13th, we saw one of the Lynx driver trainers at Burcot south of Abingdon. But, on that day of ill-omen, there was, as you probably know, chaos in the city centre about 4pm. My version of events is that an artic burst its front offside tyre manoeuvring in Worcester Street. Someone said it caught something which caused the tyre to puncture. Anyway, there it stayed, completely blocking the road. It necessitated some rapid and imaginative re-routing using Park End Street, High Bridge Street and Beaumont Street. Initially it appeared that Gloucester Green was cut off but a way was found round that with inbound expresses using St.Aldates, Oxpens, High Bridge Street, Beaumont Street, round the back of the church into Magdalen Street East and down George Street. Some inbound services from the north did the loop around Magdalen Street East and re-loaded in front of Debenhams for outward journeys. 2 and 300 used Beaumont Street, High Bridge Street, Park End Street, New Road in both directions. At one stage, George Street, Castle Street and New Road were quite congested, as can be imagined, but mobile controllers and intensive use of the radios by both companies seemed to keep things moving on the whole. I had to leave the situation by 4.30 but it was expected that the artic would not be moved until 5.30. Another complication was that the fire alarm went off in County Hall three times that day, once during the above chaos, necessitating the attendance of at least two appliances. Friday was also a very hot day.

I suppose when its Friday 13th one must expect something to happen. however the use of radios by Controllers of the two main companies always seems to keep things moving somehow.

I have received an interesting article from Niz of Oxfordshire Playbus. You may remember he wrote some weeks ago about their brand new double deck playbus. Well here it is.

Niz writes:

Oxfordshire Playbus
Reg. Charity No: 1076728

Oxfordshire Playbus works with disadvantaged children and families across Oxfordshire.
We are proud to have one of the very few Playbuses built on a new vehicle – a ‘51’ reg. Plaxton’s President, Dennis with a Cummins engine.

Converted by MASS Engineering of Sheffield, it boasts a huge play space on the Upper Deck and a computer suite,
messy play area, loo, sinks, generator on the lower deck.  With storage in every available space it is ideally suited to our work.

For more information about our work, or to visit the bus please contact Niz on 01865 256809 email: oxonplaybus@aol.com
or visit the bus at Showbus International on 22nd September.

The local paper in high Wycombe is full of problems with bus services to The Wasps matches at Adams Park. Traffic congestion seems to have resulted in cancelled or non running bus services but an additional problem was the attendance by more than 1000 extra people. The Wycombe DC web site says

Wycombe Wanderers & Wasps Travel Plan gets moving

Wycombe District Council's Development Control Committee is hoping that it will hear that a legal agreement has been signed by Wycombe Wanderers Football Club accepting the measures, targets and sanctions contained in the Travel Plan when it meets on September 18th. The legally binding travel plan is a requirement of the planning approval for the groundshare at Adams Park with London Wasps Rugby Club.

The plan encourages fans to find greener ways of getting to the ground such as car sharing, public transport and park and ride. Together with more parking controls the aim is to help minimise the problems to local residents caused by congestion and parking.

A report for the 18 September Development Control Committee will reflect the positive outcomes of several meetings with the club about the Travel Plan, and that the specific details of the plan have now been agreed. However, the accompanying legal agreements that make the plan enforceable still need to be signed and the report will recommend that enforcement action could be taken preventing Wasps matches being played if the agreements are not signed by the September deadline.

The Club has confirmed that all of the agreed measures relating to the Wasps ground share are either in place, or are on target. Although there were teething problems at their first match last week Wasps are confident these will be ironed out in time for their next game. Measures include a free shuttle bus for Wasps fans from the rail and bus stations and a 20% discount for match ticket holders on Chiltern railways.

It will be interesting to see how things pan out in the future.

Trevor Wilson wrote to say "Went to Wasps first match at Adams Park on Sunday 8 Sept.  Two Motts E reg Metrobuss and two Arriva Olympians were in use after the match - for details of the services see 

http://www.wasps.co.uk/Sub_newsdisplay.ink?nid=4270

but lots of complaints that the buses did not meet the trains.  Hpefully better for the next match. 

See also this link re cheaper trains and free bus transfer. 

http://www.wasps.co.uk/Sub_newsdisplay.ink?nid=4272

The news from our area follows.................

News of the local companies - 16th September 2002

Route 280 - operated over the years by COMS, Motts, Aylesbury Bus and now Arriva.

Following comments by Steve Warwick last week I received several responses and am including them all here for the sake of clarity.


Oxford Bus and L&D Olympians meet in Thame in April 1995, shortly before the through service transferred to L&D.

Newman Morgan writes a very informative piece which includes details of operating bases. He says "I write with regard to Steve Warwick's enquiry over the Oxford Bus Co operating the 280 through to Aylesbury.

Way back in time (i.e. the 60s!) the Oxford-Thame-Haddenham-Aylesbury road was COMS service 82. At that time COMS operated a small fleet of buses out of Aylesbury and I believe they were garaged at the United Counties depot in Buckingham Street, Aylesbury. I will have to do some research in my loft but I don't think Aylesbury duties featured on the 82.

During the mid-70s (possibly 1977) the route was revised to become the 280/1/2/3 with a half hourly service running Aylesbury-Haddenham-Thame-Oxford-Kidlington. Additional journeys ran from Risinghurst and a stop then known as Sandhills Turn  but now better known as Thornhill P&R making the section from the Green Road roundabout Headington through to Kidlington a 15 min frequency service.

Additional Oxford city services ran on 580/1/2/3 from Barton East/Barton West through to Cutteslowe and to Oxford Ring Road (Harbord Road) which together with 280/1/2/3 provided a frequency every 4 or 5 minutes. Again, I would need to research in my loft as to when the Kidlington section was abandoned in favour of transferring it to the 20 group of city services which later became the 2 group. I am pretty sure however that COMS was running the 280 in its shortened Aylesbury-Oxford form.

After the formation of Thames Transit, a competitor service 82 was run by TT for a few months between Oxford and Aylesbury. It didn't last long and so couldn't have been successful, like their P&R No. 9 service between Redbridge & Pear Tree.

After the arrival of Thames Transit and their purchase of the South Midland company, the 280 road was probably the last major country service operated by COMS. I don't recall why it was given up but was probably to do with COMS' desire to concentrate on competing with TT within Oxford City. The route passed to Arriva at Aylesbury.

Extra short workings on the 280 road between Aylesbury and Thame were moved some years ago from COMS to Luton & District's Aylesbury depot. In days of old COMS also worked the 260/261 road between Aylesbury and Thame via the villages and these did feature Aylesbury based buses. Similarly COMS worked a 230 road between Oxford and Thame which served Stanton St John, Wheatley and places like Shabbington. The service between Wheatley and Thame became irregular. My 1977 COMS timetable shows only peak hour and limited shopping journeys on this section.

My 1977 timetable also shows that the 260/261 continued beyond Thame Town Hall to Churchill Crescent and Cotmore Gardens on the Chiltern Vale Estate. The 261 variant served Lower Winchendon between Cuddington and Chearsley and it was in those days a 100% COMS service. This service was eventually transferred wholly to Luton & District, the predecessor of Arriva in Aylesbury.

More recently, assumedly with council money, Arriva have worked the 260 through from Aylesbury to Oxford via the villages but omitting Stanton St John and Forest Hill, to a greatly enhanced timetable.

Other services operated by COMS in the Thame area in 1977 included a joint service with Alder Valley 32 between Thame and High Wycombe (COMS 232) and the Tuesdays only 211 between Stadhampton and Thame. I believe the 232 was operated by Stokenchurch along with a very few journeys on 239 between Stokenchurch and High Wycombe. In 1977 there was also a 10.36pm 231 from Oxford to Stokenchurch via Stanton St John, Forest Hill, Wheatley, The Miltons, The Hazeleys, A40.

To the best of my recollection, Luton & District never made it to Oxford from Aylesbury.

Way back in time United Counties, as predecessor to Luton & District, and COMS also ran a limited stop service between Oxford and Luton Airport which went via Bicester, Aylesbury and Dunstable. Regrettably it didn't last too long."

Alan Gelson writes "In answer to the question posed by Steve Warwick about the 280 service, Oxford to Aylesbury. When I started working for C.O.M.S in 1982 I started on 2 road, which had just started to operate the 280 service from Cowley Road Garage as the Aylesbury garage had closed and the 3 remaining buses and drivers where housed in the United Counties garage. Aylesbury garage did and hourly service between Thame and Aylesbury and Cowley road garage did an hourly service between Oxford and Aylesbury, which gave the Thame/Aylesbury route a half hourly service. This carried on until about 1995 when the service was taken over by Arriva. Mostly the service was operated by single door R registered Bristols VRs and as these where withdrawn the W reg double door VRs were used and then the G reg Leyland Olympians.

I have sent a photo taken in February 1983, in Wheatley The Avenue, waiting to go back to Oxford. I took it because it was my last day on the buses, only to find that i would return a month later and i have now been there for 20 years. The bus is number 500 Bristol VR.

Regarding the query by Steve Warwick about the 280 service. In March 1982 Oxford garage took over the 280 from Aylesbury garage as Aylesbury's buses were reduced to 3 which were parked in the United Counties garage, the service operated hourly through the day from Oxford. We also did some of the 260's which went via Long Crendon, Chearsley and Cuddington. Aylesbury garage operated an hourly service to Thame which with the Oxford service, gave a half hourly service between Thame and Aylesbury but there was only an hourly service between Thame and Oxford.

Neil Gow then wrote. He says "Here's a little potted history on the 280 for Steve's benefit!!

It was always a City of Oxford route (at least since 1977).  At that time and until after 1982 it was a half-hourly service, and as the policy at that time was for country routes to work onto city services, it used to continue to Cutteslowe.  Usual vehicles were single door Bristol VRs.  During that period COMS had an outstation at Aylesbury (in the United Counties depot) and also ran Aylesbury-Thame via villages services 260/1 and Aylesbury town service 262.  Fleetlines were normal on the 260/1 and a single decker (Reliance or Bristol RE) on the town service.  Both types guested on the 280 occasionally.

By 1987, after deregulation, the through service was hourly by COMS, using the two-door VRs such as 507, and then Olympians from 1992(ish) onwards.  Luton and District (now Arriva serving nobody) ran the 260/1 and extra workings of 280 between Thame and Aylesbury.  After that things get a bit messy.  Thames Transit ran a competing service with MB minibuses sometime around 1990 but thankfully that didn't last.  Then Motts Travel (Yellow Buses) won some county council contracts in September 1991 to provide infill journeys (some via Holton and some as 260s via Worminghall) to Wheatley and many of these continued commercially to Aylesbury, plus they got the entire Sunday service.  In July 1995 Luton & District took over Motts bus operations and the 260/280 was recast, with L&D taking over the through hourly service in addition to the extra half-hourly journeys between Thame and Aylesbury.  Good old OBC were left with just an hourly service between Oxford and Thame (some as 260s via Worminghall and some as 280s extended to Haddenham).  Later in 1995, under Go-Ahead management, COMS gave up the route as they were abandoning country routes wholesale to concentrate on city services in the latest bus war with Thames Transit (the one that finally forced what was left of Transit Holdings to sell out to Stagecoach).  LDT (The Shires), as they had now become, recast the service during 1996 into the pattern we have today - and then of course the awful Arriva took over.

Here are some other traditional COMS routes Steve may not have known about, all abandoned during the 1990s.

201 Oxford-Watlington (now Thames Travel 101)

203 Oxford-Great Milton (now Thames Travel 103)

5 Oxford-Reading (joint with Alder Valley then Beeline then Reading Buses) (now Thames Travel 105 to Wallingford only)

290 Oxford-Wycombe-London (now Arriva Shires 275 to Wycombe only)

390 Oxford-Thames valley-Heathrow-London (now Thames Travel X39 to Henley only)

And going back a little further, there were all the Witney, Wantage, Bicester routes that went to South Midland prior to deregulation and ended up with arch-rival Thames Transit, plus other long-gone routes such as X50 Oxford-Stratford, X59 Oxford-Banbury-Coventry, 380 Oxford-Bristol-Weston-S-M, 312 Oxford-Newbury, 338 Oxford-Northampton and 131 Oxford-Bedford. Those were the days - when a City of Oxford day out ticket could actually get you somewhere further than Didcot! 


AEC Reliance 53 on the Aylesbury town service in October 1978.


Aylesbury based Bristol VR 449 on route to Cutteslowe in July 1981.

 Finally Newman morgan wrote again saying "I made it to my loft today and found 5 boxes of 1960s bus timetables. Some of the gems included a L T Central Area timetable, others for long gone operators such as Midland General, Lancashire United and Manchester Corporation Transport.

Anyway, I brought a few out of the loft including City of Oxford Motor Services timetable edition No. 175 dated 3rd June 1962 until further notice. The cover
price was 9d (that's old pence of course!).

There's too much comment on in one e-mail, but Oxford City Services seemed to have a reduced service Thursdays which was probably Early Closing Day.

Route 1 was extended with the introduction of this timetable from the Airfield Estate at Cowley over 'the new bridge over the Eastern By-Pass' to serve Blackbird Leys. Was this the first service to Blackbird Leys? It seems that Route 1 made it to Blackbird Leys once every 20 minutes. A far cry from today!

To refer to Steve Warwick's question of last week, the following services were operated by COMS in the Aylesbury, Thame and Watlington areas in 1962:

75   Oxford - Wheatley - Tetsworth - Postcombe - Stokenchurch - H Wycombe
76   Oxford - Cowley Swan - Stadhampton - Watlington
76E Watlington via 76 to Garsington Road then Oxford Stadium.
77   Postcombe - Tetsworth - Gt Hazeley or Gt Milton - Stadhampton - Pressed Steel Works (this was the 60s name for what became BL then Rover and
       now BMW)
78   Oxford - Waterperry - Worminghall - Shabbington - Long Crendon - Thame.
79   Thame - Long Crendon - Easington - Chilton - Brill - Oakley
80   Stokenchurch - Kingston Blount - Chinnor - Towersey - Thame (some jnys from High Wycombe on Fris and Sats as 75 Reliefs to Stokenchurch).
81   Thame - Long Crendon - Chearsley - Cuddington - Stone - Aylesbury (some        journeys via Lower Winchendon)
       And: Thame Market Place - Churchill Crescent - Thame Market Place
82   Oxford - Wheatley - Thame - Haddenham - Aylesbury (fore runner of today's Arriva 280 - it had a frequency of every 45-50 minutes).
82E As Route 82 but 5 Limited Stop journeys in each direction on Easter Saturday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Whit Saturday, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, then every Saturday and Sunday until last Sunday in September. Also ran August Bank Holiday Monday which in 1962 was the first Monday in August not the last. The variable date Whitsun Holiday was of course replaced by the fixed date Spring Bank Holiday at the end of May. This service had a minimum fare of 1/- (one shilling = 5 pence in today's money)
83   Aylesbury - Bishopstone - Marsh - Kimble Wick.
84   Aylesbury - Waddesdon - Quainton - Botolph Claydon - Steeple Claydon.  On Saturdays one journey Aylesbury - Bicester which after Botolph Claydon
       served East Claydon, Middle Claydon, Charndon, Twyford, Poundon, Launton.
85   Aylesbury - Waddesdon - Upper Winchendon - Ashendon - Wootton Station - Dorton - Woodsiding - Brill.
87   Aylesbury - Ford.
88   Watlington - Lewknor - Kingston Blount - Chinnor - Bledlow - Princes Risborough.
89   Thame - Great Milton - The Hazeleys - Little Milton - Stadhampton.
90   Bicester - Ambrosden - Arncott - Piddington (Oxon) - Boarstall - Oakley - Long Crendon - Thame.
91   Thame - Kingsey - Longwick - Princes Risborough.
98   Aylesbury - Waddesdon - Quainton (some journeys only) - Westcott Turn - Grendon Underwood - Edgcott - Marsh Gibbon - Launton - Bicester.
106 Aylesbury - Waddesdon - Westcott Village - Ashendon - Wootton Station - Dorton Turn - Ludgershall - Piddington - Blackthorn - Bicester.

As for frequencies, the 75, 76, 81, 82, 98 were Daily including Sundays, 77 was a works service, 78 ran Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays only with no service Tuesdays between Oxford and Waterperry, 79 and 80 ran Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, 83 ran Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays making Kimble Wick only on Fridays, 84 ran Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays with a shopping journey on Saturdays only from and to Bicester, 85 ran Wednesdays and Saturdays to and from Brill and on Fridays to and from Ashendon only, 87 ran Fridays only, 88 ran every day except Sundays, 89, 90, 91 ran Tuesdays for Thame Market, 106 ran Wednesdays and Saturdays mainly between Aylesbury and Ludgershall.

The 76E was one of a number of 'E' suffixed services that ran Thursday evenings to and from Oxford Speedway Stadium during the Speedway season.

Don't forget also that, in 1962, there was a regular train service in the 'west of Aylesbury' area on the Oxford - Cambridge route and on the Great Central
Marylebone - Midlands - North route. 

The Aylesbury terminus was, like United Counties and Thames Valley in those days, Kingsbury Square.

On a completely different note: the Bristol Omnibus Company country services timetable dated July 1st 1962 includes the Oxford-Swindon service jointly with City of Oxford where COMS showed route 66 and Bristol showed route 74. This service connected at Faringdon with BOC's 187 Faringdon to Cirencester via Lechlade and Fairford.

Most interesting is BOC Service 171 which was NOT joint with COMS and ran Oxford - Eynsham - Witney - Burford - Northleach - Andoversford - Cheltenham on a daily timetable, 5 departures from Oxford except Sundays when there were 2.

Better sign off before I start on Thames Valley........, strewth North Dean and Speen every hour...how times change!

Well thanks to you all, I am sure there is a lot to interest the serious enthusiast but I hope you will all find something of note.

How times have changed.
Arriva serving The Shires & Essex



Arriva's Volvo B6 3116 not mentioned in the latest edition of British bus fleet for this area,
works a late afternoon 305 service in Old Beaconsfield. The lack of destination equipment and the paper sticker are of note.


Olympian 5110 seems to have worked to Southsea last Saturday.

Trevor Wilkson writes "Arriva Wycombe ex Oxford Marshall SLF darts, formerly at the Wycombe Bus Bus Station depot are now appearing on a former Arriva Cressex Amersham outstation depot route.

In Chalfont St Peter at 10.20 this morning (Saturday 14 September), I saw: - N522MJO working the 353 Berkhamstead - Slough showing the correct '353 Slough' display on the front manual blind but showing '353 Berkhamstead' on the digital display behind the entrance door  - P525YJO working the 353 Slough - Berkhamstead.  This route has previously been worked by the Northern Counties Volvo B6s (e.g. 3127 with the defective front destination display) and Alexander Darts.  Before that Lynxs, before those Greenway Nationals and before those short Nationals. At one point Mercedes minibuses were used on some working along side the Lynxs.

This follows up on my previous note of a P reg ex Oxford SLF Dart.  This is recent and appears to have been in the last few weeks - I do not recall it happening during most of August and did not happen before the depot mergers."

Carousel Buses, High Wycombe.

A visit to the depot last Sunday caught up on developments with this operator. BYX283V (5364) is now repainted in red and work continues on EYE336V (5366). A Sullivan Bus Leyland Titan T66, was in the yard have been recovered locally after a problem..


 

City of Oxford Motor Services - The Oxford Bus Company.


A somewhat different view of 2 road this week. Taken from Cafe Uno on Saturday during my lunch break.


For the second time in just a few days, one of the new Volvo B12Bs operated an X70 departure.
This time it is nr 30 on the 1430hrs from Oxford on Monday 16th September. On the previous
Friday nr 31 operated the 0730 to Heathrow.

Recent weeks have seen the Olympians leaving for new and temporary homes. 220 sold to Worth's, 214 and 224 to Metrobus at Crawley and now somewhat unexpectedly 223 to Thames Travel. This leaves 208 delicensed and 221 and 222 in service.

I was delighted to receive the following photo from Paul Green.

Brian Matthews wrote to enclose a delightful photo. He says "Gloucester Green in the 1960's - AEC Swift f/n 628, AEC Regent V f/n H985 and 'Stratford Blue'  Leyland Titan f/n 33. With the fine liveries of the two companies it would be perfect if it had been a colour shot !

Guide Friday - Tappins Didcot

City Sightseeing, etc.
Only 1 bus now comes in from Didcot, the rest are operational from Oxford. Not sure if it has been mentioned but BFS39L is operated in new Guide Friday Oxford livery. This was a Classic white bus at Cambridge (ex Lothian)

 Horseman - Chiltern Queens.

Stagecoach in South Midlands & in Oxford


Steve Annells sent this delightful shot of an ex Blackbird flyer now in Devon. It has also been converted to single door.

Steve says "Got most of my holiday snaps of Teignmouth back, including several former Thames Transit Dennis Darts newly transferred to Stagecoach Devon from London.  I saw all of them during the week, also fleetingly R801YUD, one of the Alexander Darts, near Newton Abbot.  Teignmouth's main service is the 85/85A, worked by a motley collection of Darts, Ivecos and Mercs.


Tube 48 leaves the M40 for the Lewknor stop. This stop is growing in popularity as witnessed by
the number of cars parked all around the area.

Thames Travel

Developments at this company and its recent take over of Chiltern Queens routes see the following changes. CQ I route is sub contracted to TT until October 1st when it will become the 142 out and 143 inbound. Route C will become 145 and route G 146. H1, H2 and H3 services in Henley will become 151, 152 and 153.  There will be a slight timing change on the 136 Nuffield-Reading service.

Following County contract changes from 28th October, services 18 and 19 in Oxford and Witney will cease to be operated by TT and will revert to Stagecoach.

Following an unfortunate accident earlier last week, involving Dart 501, Oxford Bus have loaned Olympian 223 to cover whilst the problem is sorted out. The bus normally works the 1645 X39 from Oxford to Wallingford. I managed a shot of the bus crossing Shillingford Bridge, having just made a very fast run from Oxford. It seems the Thames Travel drivers are most impressed by this double decker. It is also the first time for many years that an Oxford olympian has worked regularly into Wallingford. i wonder when 223 last worked the 5 as it was.

Rob Williams wrote to say "In an interesting twist today (Wed) ex CQ W992BDP was being operated on the I, but still no clearer on what is going on. W992 still has all of the CQ jazzy stuff on its purple livery unlike the Y-reg one that I reported on Monday so it didn't look out of place at all!

Just had an update about TT, they are operating service I but technically its on hire to CQ until the end of September. Horseman are using Dart KP51SXU on a school contract as they have a driver (ex CQ ???) who only has an automatic licence. Presumably the Dart is on hire to them not TT or CQ, but it will eventually pass to TT.

Also, very interesting - TT have an Olympian on hire from Oxford Bus following a severe accident involving 501, the ex Oxford Dart...
The exCQ vehicle without the jazzy stuff is indeed Y313 KDP. I have attached a photo of it operating the I today, Saturday. It is seen passing Solo X383 VVY, although it is now possible to see three TT vehicles in Reading at the one time because V270 was at the stop behind me as I took this shot!

I also confirmed last week that a TT vehicle for the 144 is still garaged at the Reading Buses premises over night. I noted an unidentified MPD there at about 7.15pm with 144 on the blinds in a long line of RB vehicles."

Whites 

Roland Cox says "On the TAN Website Western N & P (N &P 2198)  Whites license will be revoked from 23-59 hrs on the 31st MARCH 2003"

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Surprise arrival in Gloucester Green last Saturday was this tour coach from Berlin which seemed to have lost its way.


The above company provided me with my first "52" sighting of a PCV this month.


Seen at Gatwick Airport last Saturday was this brand new Volvo/plaxton YR52MBV.


KP51UEY leaves Gloucester Green on the 310 last Saturday. Anyone know who the owner is?


A welcome development on National Express coaches is an increased information board like this one.
I have now seen this on several services.

I welcome your photos for inclusion on this page. Please send them to me at
 malcolmhc@aol.com

This is a most interesting site I do recommend

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