‘Scene’ at the RAF Cosford Air Show & Museum 3 On the road on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

A Father’s Day outing courtesy of son Andrew saw us both at the Show and Museum for the first time in many years.

 

Apart from aeroplanes, airshows also attract buses and coaches!

 

PFR 727 ‘Leach Classic Collection’.

Commer/Karrier BFD / Plaxton Venturer /1

on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

Whether it was in the air or on the ground, this was my pick of the day, lovely.

 

A 14 seater, new to ‘Abbott’, Blackpool in 1959 making it 64 years old.

 

 

 

 

PFR 727 ‘Leach Classic Collection’.

Commer/Karrier BFD / Plaxton Venturer /2

on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

9155 VC ‘Voel Coaches’, Dyserth, N.Wales.

Scania K410EB6 / Irizar i6

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

 

 

LE68 EON ‘LEONS’ Coaches, Stafford.

VDL FHD2-129/370 / VDL

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

 

 

CR13 RAM ‘RAMBLER’, Hastings, East Sussex.

Irizar i6 / Irizar

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

New registered EN13 EHD to ‘Clarke’, Lower Sydenham. SE London.

 

 

 

 

 

 

YT19 DYB ‘JOHNSONS’ QUALITY COACH TRAVEL’, JOHNSONS, Henley-in-Arden

Scania K410EB4 / Scania

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

 

 

YP23 NCO ‘Amport & District’, Thruxton, Hampshire.

Irizar i6s / Irizar

on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

‘Scene’ in Norfolk

This is the concluding part of series of blogs that came out of a weeks stay on the Norfolk coast.

They have included the buses in Cromer, Sheringham, Norwich (twice) and trains from the North Norfolk and Bure Valley Railways.

This blog essentially tidies up the items that did not feature in any of the above.

Norfolk is a beautiful county with a vast array of transport interest to offer in addition to all the other attractions.

I would not hesitate to recommend Norfolk to anyone, give it a try. You will not be disappointed.

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A Scania K400EB6 with Irizar i6 bodywork seen at the Aylsham terminus of the ‘Bure Valley Railway’ (see blog dated 12th. Dec 2015). 

 

Seen in the livery of ‘Glenton Select’ who call themselves “the wee big Scottish coach operator”.

 

SP06 FBF

 

A Bova FHD12-340 Futura seen at the Aylsham terminus of the ‘Bure Valley Railway’ (see blog dated 12th. Dec 2015). 

 

Seen in the fleet of ‘Kingdom’s Coaches’ from Tiverton in Devon.

BD64 NCZ

 

A Mercedes-Benz Tourismo coach working for ‘Hamilton-Gray' (HG) but with a ‘Majestic’ sticker in the windscreen. 

 

Pictured just after crossing the bridge in Wroxham. ‘HG’ are based in Exeter.

 

A very brief visit to Great Yarmouth produced the following from the ‘Anglian Bus Ltd’. fleet

 

AU61 AVK

 

A Scania K230UB with OmniLink bodywork on route 7 which works in from Norwich.

 

WX62 HHF

An unusual MAN Ecocity gas powered bus in ‘ABL’s fleet. The bodywork is by Caetano. Working  service 7 from Great Yarmouth.

 

X229 WRA

 

An Optare Excel that at one time worked in the East Midlands for ‘trentbarton’.

 

 ‘First’ group (the major local operator’) produced

 

AU58 EDJ

 

A Volvo B9TL with Wright Eclipse Gemini bodywork. Working in the branded livery for route X1 which runs from Peterborough to Lowestoft.

 

The distance according to Google maps being 108 miles.

 

AU05 AUM

 

A Dennis Dart SLF with Plaxton Pointer 2 bodywork seen in our old friend the ‘Barbie’ livery.

 

How much longer can it last !!!!

 

 

Wells next the Sea (what a lovely name) had these two Optare products on view

 

YJ09 LBG

 

An Optare Solo of ‘Norfolk Green (NG) in the dedicated ‘Coasthopper' livery. This route links Kings Lynn with Cromer.

 

The small number 47908 on the front dash panel identifies the bus as being part of ‘Stagecoach’s fleet. ‘NG having been taken over by them in 2013.

 

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An Optare Versa in ‘NG’ standard fleet livery although at the time of writing buses are being repainted into ‘Stagecoach’ livery.