‘Scene’ at the ‘Great Central Railway’, Leicestershire “What sort of bus was it? It was a red one” /1 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’

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.

 

At one time ‘trentbarton’s red arrow service from Chesterfield to Nottingham via Derby was worked by at least three different types of coach and during the course of a day, any of them could turn up.

 

The subtitle was a comment from another friend who didn’t know much about buses.

 

One day when he returned home from a trip to Derby, I asked him what type of bus he had travelled on and that was his answer.

 

AHE 163 ‘Yorkshire Traction’ No. 725.

Leyland PD1 / Roe /1

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To anyone connected with public transport in South Yorkshire, ‘YT’ was always, ‘the tracky’ .

 

New in 1946.

 

 

 

 

AHE 163 ‘Yorkshire Traction’ No. 725.

Leyland PD1 / Roe /2

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EPW 516K ‘Eastern Counties’ No. RL516.

Bristol RELL6G / Eastern Coach Works

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BRM 596 ‘Cumberland Motor Services’ No. 596.

Leyland TD4 / Eastern Coach Works

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The chassis dates from 1934, whilst its original Massey body was replaced with this elegant lowbridge ECW body in 1950.

 

I think the body sits very well on the Leyland chassis because the radiator is set at a slight angle and not vertical.

 

I saw the bus drive onto the site and from the style of the body I thought it was built on a Bristol K5G chassis. 

 

It was only sometime later that I saw the radiator and realised it was a Leyland.

 

Superbly preserved.

 

 

 

 

E647 DAU ‘Barton Transport’ No. 647.

DAF  MB230 / Plaxton Paramount 4

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New in 1988.

 

I have seen this coach several times over the years and I am always struck by how modern the body looks.

 

Take the numberplate away and you would never guess that it is 35 years old. 

 

It would not look out of place in any modern fleet.

 

 

 

 

KGU 284 ‘Barton Transport’ No. 1049.

Leyland 7RT / Park Royal

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New to ‘London Transport’ No. RTL326.