It is two years since friend Peter Rose and I last visited the GCR.
A good selection of trains both steam and diesel were running.
However, our main purpose, now as then, was to see and photograph the entrants in the bus rally held at Quorn & Woodhouse station.
DFE 963D ‘Lincolnshire Road Car Co. Ltd’. No. 2537
Bristol FS5G Lodekka / Eastern Coach Works
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Please forgive the slight intrusion of shadows at the front, caused by the trees that line the eastern side of the site.
MLL 817 ‘London Transport’ No. RF280
AEC Regal IV / Metro-Cammell /1
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
MLL 817 ‘London Transport’ No. RF280
AEC Regal IV / Metro-Cammell /2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
MRT 9P ‘Ipswich Borough Transport’ No.9, PHILLIPA JAYNE.
Leyland AN68 Atlantean / Roe
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Converted to open top in January 1985.
FRP 692 ‘UNITED COUNTIES’ No. 692.
Bristol KS6B / Eastern Coach Works
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New in 1950.
EKA 220Y ‘Merseyside Transport’.
Leyland Tiger / Duple Dominant
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
264 ERY ‘GUIDE FRIDAY’ No. 264.
Leyland PD3A / Park Royal
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New in 1963 to ‘LEICESTER CITY TRANSPORT’ who converted it to open top in 1978.
PJX 43 ‘HALIFAX CORPORATION TRANSPORT’ No. 43.
Leyland PD2 / Weymann
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
The livery was ‘borrowed’ from ‘Glasgow Corporation Transport’ by Mr. Geoffrey Hillditch who managed ‘HCT’ at the time.
Asked why, he said, “because I like it”.
I can’t think of a better reason!!
New in 1962.
