Located at Ruddington, which lies five miles to the South of Nottingham.
It is also home to the ‘Great Central Railway-Nottingham’.
A large site which houses an extensive collection of vintage buses as well as standard gauge and miniature railway vehicles and artefacts.
Originally a station on the ‘Great Central Railway’ extension line that linked Sheffield with London via Nottingham and Leicester.
We are all used to seeing immaculately restored veteran and vintage vehicles but
it’s not often we get to see what the restorers have to work on.
Here is just a sample.
WAL 782 ‘Barton Transport’ No. 782.
Leyland Tiger PS1/B / Willowbrook
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New registered CWH 262 new in 1948 as a Leyland Tiger PS1 with a Strachans coach body to ‘Knowles’, Bolton.
Rebuilt by Willowbrook in 1957 with this lowbridge body.
Coming towards the end of what looks to be an excellent re-paint.
KNN 254 ‘Barton Transport’ No. 580.
Leyland PD1A / Duple /1 of 2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
KNN 254 ‘Barton Transport’ No. 580.
Leyland PD1A / Duple /2 of 2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
VVO 735 ‘Barton Transport’ No. 735.
Leyland Tiger BTS/1 / Willowbrook
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New registered KAL 380 a Leyland PS1/1 with a Duple coach body.
Rebuilt by Willowbrook in 1957 with this lowbridge body.
VO 8846 ‘South Notts’ No. 17.
Leyland Lion LT5 / Willowbrook
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New in 1932.
MAL 310 ‘South Notts’ No. 310.
Leyland Royal Tiger / Duple Roadmaster
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New in 1951.
I wonder how many of us had one or more of the Dinky Toys model in our collections back in the 1950’s?
I have still got 3 in a variety of liveries.
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