For the past year or so, I have been writing articles for a community magazine based in the Derbyshire village of Kilburn. The magazine called 'all Things Local' is distributed free to 9,000 homes in Belper and Ripley. Apart from advertisements it carries all manner of general interest articles and information. It is widely read and indeed, copies of it can be hard to come by if you do not live in the two towns.
My contribution is to describe a variety of days out more or less locally that can be undertaken by anybody of any age. The purpose is to get folks out and about to enjoy the beautiful part of England in which they live.
I have provided a link from the articles to illustrations of the vehicles used that can be found here on by blog. So here goes !!
A Day out with Dennis to Derby
The major local bus operator is ‘trentbarton’ (tb) which covers a large area of the East Midlands. Here we see a Swedish built Scania chassis carrying a Spanish built body by Irizar operating a ‘red arrow’ service in Derby bus station.
Another Scania chassis this time with a Wright built body again in Derby bus station.
The body this time coming from Wright’s factory at Ballymena in Northern Ireland.
The ‘sixes’ service another ‘tb’ route links many towns along the A6 corridor going as far North as Bakewell, East to Ripley and West to Wirksworth.
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