tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68498034311961207452024-03-27T23:55:05.165+00:00Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and RunwaysDennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096008070594301638noreply@blogger.comBlogger1393125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849803431196120745.post-19295228423068800212023-12-18T20:41:00.002+00:002023-12-18T20:41:53.509+00:00'Scene' in Birmingham again 1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px;">Regular readers/viewers of the blog may remember a series of blogs earlier this year that featured the buses of Birmingham.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;">Friend Peter Rose was so taken with the ‘Scene’ in that great city, that he went back for more.</p>
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<p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">This batch of images came out of that visit and are posted here with his consent and my thanks.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I think that is a nice touch because people of all ages will be happy to ride on ‘their’ bus.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>BX13 JWE ‘WEST MIDLANDS TRAVEL LTD’. No. 4905, national express West Midlands, Tiah Joy, PRIDE.</b></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>Alexander Dennis Ltd. E40D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 </b></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 17px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Based at Birmingham Central.</p><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53405897486_f797509f43.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="332" data-original-width="500" height="332" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53405897486_f797509f43.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096008070594301638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849803431196120745.post-6293785179039784112023-12-01T19:03:00.001+00:002023-12-01T19:03:57.241+00:00‘Scene’ at Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum.
‘The East Yorkshire Connection’
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">A recent day out took friend Peter Rose and myself into pastures new when the transport delights of ‘<strong>Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum’</strong> were explored</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">As we have done before, we have combined all the images we gathered on the day. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'OKH 337 ‘Kingston upon Hull Corporation Transport’ No. 337. AEC Regent 3 / Weymann /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53368997101"><img title="OKH 337 ‘Kingston upon Hull Corporation Transport’ No. 337. AEC Regent 3 / Weymann /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53368997101_9fb53b29c2.jpg" alt="OKH 337 ‘Kingston upon Hull Corporation Transport’ No. 337. AEC Regent 3 / Weymann /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="464" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'TKH 270H ‘Kingston upon Hull Corporation Transport’ No. 270. Leyland Atlantean / Roe on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53369307434"><img title="TKH 270H ‘Kingston upon Hull Corporation Transport’ No. 270. Leyland Atlantean / Roe on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53369307434_c9c14a0e3f.jpg" alt="TKH 270H ‘Kingston upon Hull Corporation Transport’ No. 270. Leyland Atlantean / Roe on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="495" height="500" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>C537 DAT ‘East Yorkshire’ No. 537.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>on Dennis Basford’s </strong><a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk"><strong>railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</strong></a><strong>’</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>WKH 526X ‘East Yorkshire’ No. 526.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Originally ordered by <strong>‘Yorkshire Traction’.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 17px;">The second of two sets of images from friend Peter, featuring Bakewell, for which I thank him.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The first was posted on (14/10/2023).</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Whilst respecting Peter’s liking for images within their environment. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I decided to get as much information as I could out of them to include, which in some cases go’s way beyond being merely bus images.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I hope you enjoy them.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>YX12 DHN ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No</strong>. <strong>8.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>’Newport Bus’ </strong>No. 313.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It is a quarter past ten in the morning, (check the church clock) and the bus is about to pull into the passenger stands that are being blocked by the white Ford Transit.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">In front of the ‘Rutland Arms Hotel’ is Bakewell’s war memorial which still has many wreaths on display from last years armistice day parade and service.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The memorial, constructed from sandstone ashlar is a Grade 2 listed structure and is situated on a roundabout at the junction of the A6 and A619.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Dedicated to the fallen of the 1914-1918 war.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">By going left at the junction, you will pass through Matlock on your way to Derby and then London. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">To your right will eventually see you in Buxton and then Manchester.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The Rutland Arms Hotel was constructed in 1804 and the history quotes:</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">“was built to meet the needs of the aristocracy, gentry and other wealthy folk”.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">That lets me (and I suspect Peter) out then!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Still, that being so, it continues to be a busy and popular hostelry.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The church is dedicated to ‘All Saints’ and has its origins from before the Norman conquest with much of its construction being from the 12th. century.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It really is a lovely church and well worth a visit.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'YX12 DHN ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 8. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53364830888"><img title="YX12 DHN ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 8. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53364830888_347af57938.jpg" alt="YX12 DHN ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 8. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="375" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The bus was originally registered T20 JLS and was new to <strong>‘Leasks of Lerwick’</strong> in Shetland i but on this occasion is inbound from Chesterfield and about to cross the bridge over the River Wye, before entering the town.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The road behind Peter leads up a hill to the site of the <strong>‘Midland Railway’ </strong>built station.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">In earlier days you would have been able to get as far as Matlock, Derby, London and Manchester by train and it would have been a much quicker journey from Bakewell than it is today!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The water fountain in the road is ‘Cross’s Folly’.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It was built in 1876 to celebrate the arrival of piped water in the town.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Its construction was funded by a group of businessmen in the town led by Mr. Robert Cross.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'SW64 XAR ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 11. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53363742622"><img title="SW64 XAR ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 11. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53363742622_d6e2bca06e.jpg" alt="SW64 XAR ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 11. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="347" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Bought new in 2021 to celebrate <strong>‘Hulleys’</strong> centenary.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The registration translates as, <strong>Y</strong>ear <strong>100 H</strong>ulleys<strong> O</strong>f<strong> B</strong>aslow.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I have ridden on this bus several times and it is a very smooth performer</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Pictured about to pass the Castle Inn which is on Bath Street in the centre of the town and only a few yards away from the River Wye.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">A Grade 2 listed building that dates back to the 16th. century.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'Y100 HOB ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 21. Volvo B8RLE / MCV EVORA /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53363742617"><img title="Y100 HOB ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 21. Volvo B8RLE / MCV EVORA /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53363742617_059c883026.jpg" alt="Y100 HOB ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 21. Volvo B8RLE / MCV EVORA /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="318" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Y100 HOB</strong> <strong>‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No</strong>.<strong> 21.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Volvo B8RLE / MCV E</strong><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: normal;"><strong>V</strong></span><strong>OR</strong><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 21px; line-height: normal;"><strong>A </strong></span><strong>/2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Pictured coming over the bridge with the River Wye passing beneath.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Having worked service 257 that links Bakewell to Sheffield via the scenic Ladybower reservoir.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The road is the A619 which starts in Bakewell and leads via Chesterfield to Worksop in Nottinghamshire.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The bridge is a Grade1 listed stone arch structure which is also a scheduled monument.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It dates back to the 14th. Century and was constructed of ashlar gritstone</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">carried on five arches with cutwaters.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Widened in the 19th. century, the narrow footpath has refuges built into the bridge to allow pedestrians some shelter from passing traffic.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'Y100 HOB ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 21. Volvo B8RLE / MCV EVORA /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53364946624"><img title="Y100 HOB ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 21. Volvo B8RLE / MCV EVORA /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53364946624_18d9b784ff.jpg" alt="Y100 HOB ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 21. Volvo B8RLE / MCV EVORA /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="374" border="0" /></a></p>Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096008070594301638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849803431196120745.post-8358303038663339282023-11-27T16:16:00.001+00:002023-11-28T09:59:08.396+00:00‘Scene’ at Crich Tramway Village, Derbyshire 2
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I live only a few miles away from Crich. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">A direct bus service to Crich runs past the end of the road where I live.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Yet I have never before posted a blog from there.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It was only when I received these images from friend Peter Rose that I realised what a gem on my doorstep I have been missing.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Posted with Peter’s consent and my thanks to him, there will be more from Crich in future.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">For some years, the trams in Sheffield were a big part of my life.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">As a child, I lived a five minute walk away from the Queens Road depot where the body of this tram was built.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I went to school by tram, I visited my grandparents by tram, I went to work by tram.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">They were a part of Sheffield’s urban scene that were just taken for granted. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Then in October 1960, 63 years ago almost to the day at the time of writing, they were gone.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Sheffield was a smoky, dirty city in those days but the cream and azure blue trams and buses were always kept clean.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">In 1953 an attempt was made to reduce the cost of cleaning by painting buses and trams a dark green.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">There was uproar in the city.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The citizens of Sheffield were proud of ‘their’ buses and trams.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The few vehicles that were green were rapidly repainted.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Today, Sheffield has a modern tramway system where one of the new trams was painted in an approximation of the traditional livery.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">They are efficient, smart and do a good job but to Sheffielders of my and earlier generations they are merely a substitute for what went before.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The livery lived on with the buses until. <strong>‘Sheffield Corporation Transport’ </strong>became part of <strong>‘South Yorkshire Passenger Transport’ </strong>in 1974.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It is still much missed.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New in 1937.</p>
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<p><a title="View '264 ‘Sheffield Corporation Transport’. Peckham P22 / ‘Sheffield Corporation Transport’. on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53358790027"><img title="264 ‘Sheffield Corporation Transport’. Peckham P22 / ‘Sheffield Corporation Transport’. on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53358790027_0670f0c075.jpg" alt="264 ‘Sheffield Corporation Transport’. Peckham P22 / ‘Sheffield Corporation Transport’. on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="386" height="500" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>ACEC B-3 (PCC Type) / La Brugeoise, Bruge, Belgium</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Not obvious in this image is the fact that is only single ended, unlike most trams which have driving positions at both ends.</p>
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<p><a title="View '1147 Den Haag Tramways (The Hague), Holland. ACEC B-3 (PCC Type) / La Brugeoise, Bruge, Belgium on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53359887748"><img title="1147 Den Haag Tramways (The Hague), Holland. ACEC B-3 (PCC Type) / La Brugeoise, Bruge, Belgium on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53359887748_43765ab4a7.jpg" alt="1147 Den Haag Tramways (The Hague), Holland. ACEC B-3 (PCC Type) / La Brugeoise, Bruge, Belgium on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="415" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New in 1925, withdrawn in 1951 but kept in use as the depot shunter at Kirkstall depot where it was built.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Preserved by <strong>‘Leeds Transport Historical Society’ </strong>in 1959, coming to Crich the same year.</p>
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<p><a title="View '399 ‘Leeds City Transport’. Peckham P22 / ‘Leeds City Transport’ on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53360127205"><img title="399 ‘Leeds City Transport’. Peckham P22 / ‘Leeds City Transport’ on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53360127205_dea1a05646.jpg" alt="399 ‘Leeds City Transport’. Peckham P22 / ‘Leeds City Transport’ on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="475" height="500" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New in 1931, withdrawn in 1957.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Refurbished prior to being preserved and came to Crich in late 1959 or early 1960.</p>
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<p><a title="View '180 ‘Leeds City Transport’. Peckham P35 / Brush Electrical Engineering Company, Loughborough /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53359671551"><img title="180 ‘Leeds City Transport’. Peckham P35 / Brush Electrical Engineering Company, Loughborough /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53359671551_24c5e70574.jpg" alt="180 ‘Leeds City Transport’. Peckham P35 / Brush Electrical Engineering Company, Loughborough /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="375" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The driver’s view prior to moving over the crossover and starting the next journey.<a title="View '180 ‘Leeds City Transport’. Peckham P35 / Brush Electrical Engineering Company, Loughborough /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53359887743"><img title="180 ‘Leeds City Transport’. Peckham P35 / Brush Electrical Engineering Company, Loughborough /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53359887743_1c3158d9e4.jpg" alt="180 ‘Leeds City Transport’. Peckham P35 / Brush Electrical Engineering Company, Loughborough /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="375" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>35 ‘Edinburgh Corporation Transport’.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Peckham P22 / ‘Edinburgh Corporation Transport’</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New in 1948, withdrawn in 1956.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Having spent some years in store, It came to Crich in 1989 having taken the long way round via Blackpool.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The livery it carries is not all that different to the buses in Edinburgh's <strong>‘Lothian Buses’ </strong>fleet of today.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The cream having been replaced by off white.</p>
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<p><a title="View '35 ‘Edinburgh Corporation Transport’. Peckham P22 / ‘Edinburgh Corporation Transport’ on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53359887783"><img title="35 ‘Edinburgh Corporation Transport’. Peckham P22 / ‘Edinburgh Corporation Transport’ on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53359887783_1fde5b2309.jpg" alt="35 ‘Edinburgh Corporation Transport’. Peckham P22 / ‘Edinburgh Corporation Transport’ on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="337" height="500" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><strong>HE 12 ‘T</strong></span><strong style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">HE</strong><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><strong> B</strong></span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><strong>ARNSLEY</strong></span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><strong>&</strong></span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><strong> D</strong></span><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal;"><strong>I</strong></span><strong style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">STRICT</strong><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><strong>E</strong></span><strong style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">LECTRIC</strong><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><strong>T</strong></span><strong style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">RACTION</strong><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><strong> C</strong></span><strong style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">O.</strong><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal;"><strong> L</strong></span><strong style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 11px;">TD’.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 17px;">Used by ‘TB&DETCL’ for services to parts of Barnsley not covered by the tramway network.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The history of this bus is well worth reading. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It covers amongst other things the time it spent as part of a house in Newark!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Go to the museum website and search for HE 12.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'HE 12 ‘THE BARNSLEY & DISTRICT ELECTRIC TRACTION CO. LTD’. Leyland / Brush Electrical Engineering Company, Loughborough on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53360127235"><img title="HE 12 ‘THE BARNSLEY & DISTRICT ELECTRIC TRACTION CO. LTD’. Leyland / Brush Electrical Engineering Company, Loughborough on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53360127235_4c8a1d8836.jpg" alt="HE 12 ‘THE BARNSLEY & DISTRICT ELECTRIC TRACTION CO. LTD’. Leyland / Brush Electrical Engineering Company, Loughborough on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="475" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>8 CHESTERFIELD TRAMWAYS COMPANY.<br /> Trunnion / GF Milnes & Co.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New in 1899 and one of the last two horse trams built for the operator.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It became redundant in 1905 when the Chesterfield system was electrified, sold off and converted into a garden summerhouse.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Rescued in the 1980s and restored coming to Crich in 1982.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><a title="View '8 CHESTERFIELD TRAMWAYS COMPANY.Trunnion / GF Milnes & Co. on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53359995044"><img title="8 CHESTERFIELD TRAMWAYS COMPANY.Trunnion / GF Milnes & Co. on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53359995044_071a1418a6.jpg" alt="8 CHESTERFIELD TRAMWAYS COMPANY.Trunnion / GF Milnes & Co. on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="351" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p> </p>Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096008070594301638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849803431196120745.post-76680008068943138772023-11-25T07:20:00.001+00:002023-11-25T07:20:44.590+00:00‘Scene’ since the Seventies
Class 43 HST Power Cars (HST) once more
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I believe that the word ‘Iconic’ has become much overused in our language,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">being trotted out daily in the media to mark some insignificant event.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I think for something to be truly iconic, it should be meaningful and lasting.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The HST as been just that.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Born out of the necessity for finding something to replace the Advanced Passenger Train which was years before its time. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Now approaching their final days, the class 43s have stood the test of time.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I think that it will live in the collective memory like Sir Nigel Gresley’s A4 or Sir William Stanier’s Black Five before it.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Friend Peter Rose and I have been photographing HSTs for many years and this short series of blogs are our joint tribute to it.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>43139 ‘First Great Western’ Driver Stan Martin.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Pictured at Exeter St. Davids.</p>
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<p><a title="View '43139 ‘First Great Western’ Driver Stan Martin. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53354568553"><img title="43139 ‘First Great Western’ Driver Stan Martin. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53354568553_1cc9b82cfa.jpg" alt="43139 ‘First Great Western’ Driver Stan Martin. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="340" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>43014 ‘Network Rail’ The Railway Observer & 43062 John Armitt.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car</strong></p>
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<p><a title="View '43014 ‘Network Rail’ The Railway Observer & 43062 John Armitt. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53353471557"><img title="43014 ‘Network Rail’ The Railway Observer & 43062 John Armitt. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53353471557_ab22e745f6.jpg" alt="43014 ‘Network Rail’ The Railway Observer & 43062 John Armitt. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="321" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Pictured at Trowell Junction.</p>
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<p><a title="View '42076 ‘East Midland Railway’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53354568538"><img title="42076 ‘East Midland Railway’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53354568538_156f6a004e.jpg" alt="42076 ‘East Midland Railway’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="347" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>43239 ‘Virgin’.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View '43239 ‘Virgin’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53354796500"><img title="43239 ‘Virgin’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53354796500_a08849658d.jpg" alt="43239 ‘Virgin’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="325" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>43154 ‘Great Western Railway’. Compton Castle.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View '43154 ‘Great Western Railway’. Compton Castle. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53353471547"><img title="43154 ‘Great Western Railway’. Compton Castle. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53353471547_8b1ce2f910.jpg" alt="43154 ‘Great Western Railway’. Compton Castle. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="310" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>43274 ‘East Midland Railway’.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car</strong></p>
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<p><a title="View '43274 ‘East Midland Railway’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53354568533"><img title="43274 ‘East Midland Railway’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53354568533_e22cce4122.jpg" alt="43274 ‘East Midland Railway’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="245" border="0" /></a></p>Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096008070594301638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849803431196120745.post-82422508857855730182023-11-23T14:53:00.001+00:002023-11-23T14:53:09.225+00:00‘Scene’ at the ‘Great Central Railway’, Leicestershire 3
“What sort of bus was it? It was a green one”
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">It is two years since friend Peter Rose and I last visited the GCR.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">A good selection of trains both steam and diesel were running. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">However, our main purpose, now as then, was to see and photograph the entrants in the bus rally held at Quorn & Woodhouse station.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>DFE 963D ‘Lincolnshire Road Car Co. Ltd’. No. 2537</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Bristol FS5G Lodekka / Eastern Coach Works</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Please forgive the slight intrusion of shadows at the front, caused by the trees that line the eastern side of the site.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'DFE 963D ‘Lincolnshire Road Car Co. Ltd’. No. 2537 Bristol FS5G Lodekka / Eastern Coach Works on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53350014217"><img title="DFE 963D ‘Lincolnshire Road Car Co. Ltd’. No. 2537 Bristol FS5G Lodekka / Eastern Coach Works on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53350014217_1a2f1acc8a.jpg" alt="DFE 963D ‘Lincolnshire Road Car Co. Ltd’. No. 2537 Bristol FS5G Lodekka / Eastern Coach Works on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="442" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>MLL 817 ‘London Transport’ No. RF280</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>AEC Regal IV / Metro-Cammell /1</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'MLL 817 ‘London Transport’ No. RF280 AEC Regal IV / Metro-Cammell /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53350888541"><img title="MLL 817 ‘London Transport’ No. RF280 AEC Regal IV / Metro-Cammell /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53350888541_096cc7feb0.jpg" alt="MLL 817 ‘London Transport’ No. RF280 AEC Regal IV / Metro-Cammell /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="375" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>MLL 817 ‘London Transport’ No. RF280</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>AEC Regal IV / Metro-Cammell /2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'MLL 817 ‘London Transport’ No. RF280 AEC Regal IV / Metro-Cammell /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53351209639"><img title="MLL 817 ‘London Transport’ No. RF280 AEC Regal IV / Metro-Cammell /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53351209639_8d46b8e3c5.jpg" alt="MLL 817 ‘London Transport’ No. RF280 AEC Regal IV / Metro-Cammell /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="324" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>MRT 9P ‘Ipswich Borough Transport’ No.9, PHILLIPA JAYNE.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Leyland AN68 Atlantean / Roe</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Converted to open top in January 1985.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'MRT 9P ‘Ipswich Borough Transport’ No.9, PHILLIPA JAYNE. Leyland AN68 Atlantean / Roe on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53350014192"><img title="MRT 9P ‘Ipswich Borough Transport’ No.9, PHILLIPA JAYNE. Leyland AN68 Atlantean / Roe on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53350014192_27333b24c8.jpg" alt="MRT 9P ‘Ipswich Borough Transport’ No.9, PHILLIPA JAYNE. Leyland AN68 Atlantean / Roe on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="379" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>FRP 692 ‘UNITED COUNTIES’ No. 692.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Bristol KS6B / </strong><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Eastern Coach Works</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'FRP 692 ‘UNITED COUNTIES’ No. 692. Bristol KS6B / Eastern Coach Works on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53351112688"><img title="FRP 692 ‘UNITED COUNTIES’ No. 692. Bristol KS6B / Eastern Coach Works on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53351112688_0e85128d84.jpg" alt="FRP 692 ‘UNITED COUNTIES’ No. 692. Bristol KS6B / Eastern Coach Works on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="454" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>EKA 220Y ‘Merseyside Transport’.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Leyland Tiger / Duple Dominant</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'EKA 220Y ‘Merseyside Transport’. Leyland Tiger / Duple Dominant on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53351209654"><img title="EKA 220Y ‘Merseyside Transport’. Leyland Tiger / Duple Dominant on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53351209654_f710935828.jpg" alt="EKA 220Y ‘Merseyside Transport’. Leyland Tiger / Duple Dominant on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="282" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>264 ERY ‘GUIDE FRIDAY’ No. 264.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Leyland PD3A / Park Royal</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New in 1963 to <strong>‘LEICESTER CITY TRANSPORT’ </strong>who converted it to open top in 1978.</p>
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<p><a title="View '264 ERY ‘GUIDE FRIDAY’ No. 264. Leyland PD3A / Park Royal on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53351124628"><img title="264 ERY ‘GUIDE FRIDAY’ No. 264. Leyland PD3A / Park Royal on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53351124628_72f0e6cdc2.jpg" alt="264 ERY ‘GUIDE FRIDAY’ No. 264. Leyland PD3A / Park Royal on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="480" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>PJX 43 ‘HALIFAX CORPORATION TRANSPORT’ No. 43.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Leyland PD2 / Weymann</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The livery was ‘borrowed’ from <strong>‘Glasgow Corporation Transport’ </strong>by Mr. Geoffrey Hillditch who managed ‘HCT’ at the time.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Asked why, he said, “because I like it”.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I can’t think of a better reason!!</p>
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On the road
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">A Father’s Day outing courtesy of son Andrew saw us both at the Show and Museum for the first time in many years.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Apart from aeroplanes, airshows also attract buses and coaches!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>PO16 HTK ‘Holmeswood Coaches’, Holmeswood, Lancs.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>MAN 19.360 / Barbi Galileo</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">At the time, (2016) <strong>’Holmeswood’,</strong> were the UK distributors for this model.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Built in Italy, they were good solid dependable vehicles that for some reason didn’t click in the UK.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">My wife and I had a holiday in Italy where our transport was another of its kind.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Comfortable and powerful, it never missed a beat all week.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I think that this is only the third or fourth I have seen in the UK.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'PO16 HTK ‘Holmeswood Coaches’, Holmeswood, Lancs. MAN 19.360 / Barbi Galileo on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53347323575"><img title="PO16 HTK ‘Holmeswood Coaches’, Holmeswood, Lancs. MAN 19.360 / Barbi Galileo on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53347323575_c257131483.jpg" alt="PO16 HTK ‘Holmeswood Coaches’, Holmeswood, Lancs. MAN 19.360 / Barbi Galileo on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="376" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BX64 JZU ‘C A Bruce Travel’, Goole, East Yorks.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Mercedes-Benz Tourismo</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">There was a time when Mercedes-Benz struggled to sell any buses or coaches in the UK.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I suspect that the Tourismo is probably the most popular coach purchased at the moment.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'BX64 JZU ‘C A Bruce Travel’, Goole, East Yorks. Mercedes-Benz Tourismo on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53346874856"><img title="BX64 JZU ‘C A Bruce Travel’, Goole, East Yorks. Mercedes-Benz Tourismo on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53346874856_c44ef72765.jpg" alt="BX64 JZU ‘C A Bruce Travel’, Goole, East Yorks. Mercedes-Benz Tourismo on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="409" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>T21 VDL ‘Tamar Coaches’ Diamond Class’, Plymouth.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p><a title="View 'T21 VDL ‘Tamar Coaches’ Diamond Class’, Plymouth. VDL FHD2-129 / VDL on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53345998262"><img title="T21 VDL ‘Tamar Coaches’ Diamond Class’, Plymouth. VDL FHD2-129 / VDL on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53345998262_cd59ec95b0.jpg" alt="T21 VDL ‘Tamar Coaches’ Diamond Class’, Plymouth. VDL FHD2-129 / VDL on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="296" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'WJ17 EYU ‘Berrys’. Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset. VDL FHD-2 129 / VDL on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53347323605"><img title="WJ17 EYU ‘Berrys’. Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset. VDL FHD-2 129 / VDL on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53347323605_57f847de64.jpg" alt="WJ17 EYU ‘Berrys’. Norton Fitzwarren, Somerset. VDL FHD-2 129 / VDL on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="330" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>542 HWT ‘Hollywood Travel Coach Holidays’, Birmingham.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View '542 HWT ‘Hollywood Travel Coach Holidays’, Birmingham. Mercedes-Benz Atego / Noone Turas 900 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53345998267"><img title="542 HWT ‘Hollywood Travel Coach Holidays’, Birmingham. Mercedes-Benz Atego / Noone Turas 900 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53345998267_8f460e0659.jpg" alt="542 HWT ‘Hollywood Travel Coach Holidays’, Birmingham. Mercedes-Benz Atego / Noone Turas 900 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="343" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>YJ23 ACX ‘YORK PULLMAN’</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">In bus terms, Chesterfield never lets me down.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">There is always something of interest to be found.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">There was a time that the only place that guaranteed a <strong>‘Hulleys of Baslow’</strong> presence was Bakewell.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">These days, with HoB running services in this part of Derbyshire as well as into the Peak District, In Chesterfield there is always a steady throughput of members of their fleet.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>LK09 EKP</strong> <strong>‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 5.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Alexander Dennis Ltd. Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 /1</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">So fresh from the paint shop they have not as yet had time to put the fleetnames on.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Metroline’,</strong> London No. TE935.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'LK09 EKP ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 5. Alexander Dennis Ltd. Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53340591617"><img title="LK09 EKP ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 5. Alexander Dennis Ltd. Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53340591617_8578af4ced.jpg" alt="LK09 EKP ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 5. Alexander Dennis Ltd. Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="426" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>LK09 EKP</strong> <strong>‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 5.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Alexander Dennis Ltd. Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 /2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'LK09 EKP ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 5. Alexander Dennis Ltd. Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53341699093"><img title="LK09 EKP ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 5. Alexander Dennis Ltd. Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53341699093_4f51a50a43.jpg" alt="LK09 EKP ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 5. Alexander Dennis Ltd. Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="364" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>MK63 XAU</strong> <strong>‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 15.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 /1</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I had been hunting for this bus all summer with no luck, until TODAY!!</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">HoB are renowned for painting members of their own fleet in the liveries of former operators in the Peak District.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">This being an approximation of the coaching livery of the former <strong>‘North Western Road Car Company’.</strong></p>
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<p><a title="View 'MK63 XAU ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 15. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53341699113"><img title="MK63 XAU ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 15. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53341699113_a896457a35.jpg" alt="MK63 XAU ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 15. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="333" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 /2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p><a title="View 'MK63 XAU ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 15. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53340591612"><img title="MK63 XAU ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 15. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53340591612_158bbb1916.jpg" alt="MK63 XAU ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 15. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="413" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>MX11 CZM</strong> <strong>‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 17.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It has appeared before in a blog but in an earlier livery than this.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'MX11 CZM ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 17. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53341806609"><img title="MX11 CZM ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 17. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53341806609_a1a484a7e6.jpg" alt="MX11 CZM ‘Hulleys of Baslow’ No. 17. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="246" border="0" /></a></p>Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096008070594301638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849803431196120745.post-60368368826973266492023-11-16T19:43:00.001+00:002023-11-16T19:43:40.738+00:00‘Scene’ in South Wingfield, Derbyshire 2
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Part 1 was posted on 06/11/2023.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The village of South Wingfield lies to the West of the town of Alfreton on </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">B6179 linking Derby with Chesterfield and to the East of the village of Crich of ‘Tramway Village’<strong> </strong>fame.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">In 1840, it lay on the new <strong>‘North Midland Railway’</strong> line that linked Derby with Rotherham and eventually Leeds.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The station building, designed by Francis Thompson, is the only one of the thirteen original stations standing in the form in which it was built.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">As such, it is a Grade ll listed building.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It should be made clear that the station is not rail connected nor from what I have seen will ever be.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It is currently available to rent to an outside organisation which will provide an income for the buildings upkeep.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I would think that if Francis Thompson were alive today, he would be pleased with the outcome nearly 200 years after he designed the building.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>South Wingfield station /1</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">A number of railway artefacts provide a connection to the building’s history.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">One of which is this barrow which, from its design, I would think would have been used for moving goods between the train and the goods shed.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Sensibly, in my view, it is chained to a substantial looking fence.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'South Wingfield station /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53336215106"><img title="South Wingfield station /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53336215106_a03bf0c2de.jpg" alt="South Wingfield station /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="368" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Two artefacts located indoors are a porter’s trolley at the back of two very substantial benches.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I suspect that these offer a level of comfort greater than would be available on a train in the 1840s.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'South Wingfield station /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53336679620"><img title="South Wingfield station /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53336679620_8419ec914d.jpg" alt="South Wingfield station /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="375" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>South Wingfield station /3</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The porter’s room where, on a cold winters day a bit like today, a roaring coal fire would keep them warm whist waiting for the next train.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The mantlepiece displays two hand lamps of the time.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The poster to the right is worth a read.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'South Wingfield station /3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53335340962"><img title="South Wingfield station /3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53335340962_ec3e2d0aca.jpg" alt="South Wingfield station /3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="430" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>South Wingfield station /4</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Coal fires will not be required by whoever takes the station on. </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">A modern heating system which supplies underfloor heating has been installed.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'South Wingfield station /4 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53336679580"><img title="South Wingfield station /4 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53336679580_fcf732ee9a.jpg" alt="South Wingfield station /4 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="375" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>South Wingfield station /5</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Another mantlepiece holds a model of a train that would have been operated by the NMR in the 1840s.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Set in front of a background showing todays station, it is interesting to compare how things were with how that are today.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'South Wingfield station /5 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53336556624"><img title="South Wingfield station /5 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53336556624_fcf732ee9a.jpg" alt="South Wingfield station /5 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="289" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>South Wingfield station /6</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The conditions for the men crewing the 2-2-2 locomotive must have been appalling.</p>
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‘Transdev’
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">An Interchange because of the passenger’s ability to access buses and the tram network that links directly into Manchester.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">A French owned group which operates widely across Yorkshire and Lancashire using many company names and local route brands.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BD11 CEA ‘Transdev’ No. 2421, trax, PRIDE OF THE NORTH.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Yorkshire Coastliner’ </strong>No. 421.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'BD11 CEA ‘Transdev’ No. 2421, trax, PRIDE OF THE NORTH. Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53331878711"><img title="BD11 CEA ‘Transdev’ No. 2421, trax, PRIDE OF THE NORTH. Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53331878711_27e4c3e64e.jpg" alt="BD11 CEA ‘Transdev’ No. 2421, trax, PRIDE OF THE NORTH. Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="349" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BD11 CEJ ‘Transdev’ No. 2423, GET THE APP.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Yorkshire Coastliner’ </strong>No. 423.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'BD11 CEJ ‘Transdev’ No. 2423, GET THE APP. Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53332218724"><img title="BD11 CEJ ‘Transdev’ No. 2423, GET THE APP. Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53332218724_670e80686a.jpg" alt="BD11 CEJ ‘Transdev’ No. 2423, GET THE APP. Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="300" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>YJ07 PBO ‘Transdev’ No. 1727, Irwell line.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Lancashire United’</strong> No.1822.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'YJ07 PBO ‘Transdev’ No. 1727, Irwell line. Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53331002957"><img title="YJ07 PBO ‘Transdev’ No. 1727, Irwell line. Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53331002957_c34aebe109.jpg" alt="YJ07 PBO ‘Transdev’ No. 1727, Irwell line. Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="308" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>WP21 FVJ ‘Transdev’ No. 79, ROSSO.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Mercedes-Benz 516CDI Sprinter / Mellor Strata</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to ‘<strong>Rossendale’.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><a title="View 'WP21 FVJ ‘Transdev’ No. 79, ROSSO. Mercedes-Benz 516CDI Sprinter / Mellor Strata on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53331878701"><img title="WP21 FVJ ‘Transdev’ No. 79, ROSSO. Mercedes-Benz 516CDI Sprinter / Mellor Strata on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53331878701_5eaef8bda1.jpg" alt="WP21 FVJ ‘Transdev’ No. 79, ROSSO. Mercedes-Benz 516CDI Sprinter / Mellor Strata on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="291" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>SK67 FNC ‘ROSSO’ No. 618, Tottington</strong>line<strong>.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Wright Streeteck D/F</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><a title="View 'SK67 FNC ‘ROSSO’ No. 618, Tottingtonline. Wright Streeteck D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53332104438"><img title="SK67 FNC ‘ROSSO’ No. 618, Tottingtonline. Wright Streeteck D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53332104438_3976a190aa.jpg" alt="SK67 FNC ‘ROSSO’ No. 618, Tottingtonline. Wright Streeteck D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="313" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>SN64 CSU ‘Transdev’ No. 601, trax to BURY & ROCHDALE.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Wright Streeteck D/F</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Burnley & Pendle’.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><a title="View 'SN64 CSU ‘Transdev’ No. 601, trax to BURY & ROCHDALE. Wright Streeteck D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53331002952"><img title="SN64 CSU ‘Transdev’ No. 601, trax to BURY & ROCHDALE. Wright Streeteck D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53331002952_db88cac5aa.jpg" alt="SN64 CSU ‘Transdev’ No. 601, trax to BURY & ROCHDALE. Wright Streeteck D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="252" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>WX09 TGU ‘Transdev’ No. 737, Bury Bolts.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Alexander Dennis Ltd. E200 / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Jim Stones’ </strong>Leigh, Lancs.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'WX09 TGU ‘Transdev’ No. 737, Bury Bolts. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E200 / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53332218709"><img title="WX09 TGU ‘Transdev’ No. 737, Bury Bolts. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E200 / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53332218709_76d50041c4.jpg" alt="WX09 TGU ‘Transdev’ No. 737, Bury Bolts. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E200 / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="315" border="0" /></a></p>Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096008070594301638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849803431196120745.post-16616529801157017062023-11-12T16:04:00.001+00:002023-11-12T16:04:57.029+00:00‘Scene’ In and Around West Bromwich Bus Station
‘Diamond Bus West Midlands’
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">A day out train and tram riding in the West Midlands took friend Peter Rose and myself into pastures new when the transport delights of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and West Bromwich were explored.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">As we have done before, we have combined all the images we gathered on the day. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">The credits being joint D.Basford/P.M.Rose.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">The bus station in West Bromwich is located across the road from a tram stop on the<strong> ‘West Midlands Metro’ </strong>(Tramway) and is easily accessible from either Birmingham or Wolverhampton.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>BN23 YSC ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32261.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Wright Streetlite D/F /1</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'BN23 YSC ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32261. Wright Streetlite D/F /1 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53326963166"><img title="BN23 YSC ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32261. Wright Streetlite D/F /1 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53326963166_42fcd68da5.jpg" alt="BN23 YSC ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32261. Wright Streetlite D/F /1 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="302" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Wright Streetlite D/F /2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'BN23 YSC ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32261. Wright Streetlite D/F /2 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53326092072"><img title="BN23 YSC ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32261. Wright Streetlite D/F /2 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53326092072_6bfc222902.jpg" alt="BN23 YSC ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32261. Wright Streetlite D/F /2 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="345" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>LS68 FOU ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 21213.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Mercedes-Benz 516CDI Mellor Strata</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'LS68 FOU ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 21213. Mercedes-Benz 516CDI Mellor Strata on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53327421700"><img title="LS68 FOU ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 21213. Mercedes-Benz 516CDI Mellor Strata on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53327421700_259c59092f.jpg" alt="LS68 FOU ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 21213. Mercedes-Benz 516CDI Mellor Strata on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="320" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>LS68 FON ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 21210.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Mercedes-Benz 516CDI Mellor Strata</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'LS68 FON ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 21210. Mercedes-Benz 516CDI Mellor Strata on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53326963181"><img title="LS68 FON ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 21210. Mercedes-Benz 516CDI Mellor Strata on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53326963181_af2ee62f8b.jpg" alt="LS68 FON ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 21210. Mercedes-Benz 516CDI Mellor Strata on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="351" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BD20 OCP ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32318.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Wright Streetlite D/F</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'BD20 OCP ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32318. Wright Streetlite D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53327309149"><img title="BD20 OCP ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32318. Wright Streetlite D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53327309149_1bb4c0e7d0.jpg" alt="BD20 OCP ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32318. Wright Streetlite D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="374" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>YJ10 EYU ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 20739.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Optare Solo M880 S/L</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Webberbus’</strong>, Bridgewater, Somerset.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'YJ10 EYU ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 20739. Optare Solo M880 S/L on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53326967131"><img title="YJ10 EYU ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 20739. Optare Solo M880 S/L on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53326967131_297f68d74f.jpg" alt="YJ10 EYU ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 20739. Optare Solo M880 S/L on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="324" border="0" /></a></p>Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096008070594301638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849803431196120745.post-16420410748074893652023-11-10T17:06:00.001+00:002023-11-10T17:06:23.130+00:00‘Scene’ at Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum.
‘The Lincolnshire Connection’
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">A recent day out took friend Peter Rose and myself into pastures new when the transport delights of ‘<strong>Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum’</strong> were explored</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">As we have done before, we have combined all the images we gathered on the day. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">One of the elements of going to somewhere like a museum where you have an idea what you are going to see is that it is always interesting to see what else just turns up.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>AEC Bridgemaster / Park Royal /1</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I was amazed to see this turn up, I had no idea that it had survived.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'NJV 995 ‘Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport’ No. 133, Lady Jane. AEC Bridgemaster / Park Royal /1 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53323005979"><img title="NJV 995 ‘Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport’ No. 133, Lady Jane. AEC Bridgemaster / Park Royal /1 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53323005979_66fa38f8fe.jpg" alt="NJV 995 ‘Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport’ No. 133, Lady Jane. AEC Bridgemaster / Park Royal /1 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="351" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>AEC Bridgemaster / Park Royal /2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'NJV 995 ‘Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport’ No. 133, Lady Jane. AEC Bridgemaster / Park Royal /2 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53321786807"><img title="NJV 995 ‘Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport’ No. 133, Lady Jane. AEC Bridgemaster / Park Royal /2 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53321786807_ff6858671c.jpg" alt="NJV 995 ‘Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport’ No. 133, Lady Jane. AEC Bridgemaster / Park Royal /2 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="452" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>CX04 CVF ‘CLEETHORPES TRANSPORT’ No. 33.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to ‘<strong>Jones’</strong> Bontnewydd, Wales.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'CX04 CVF ‘CLEETHORPES TRANSPORT’ No. 33. Transbus Dart / Plaxton Mini Pointer on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53322890078"><img title="CX04 CVF ‘CLEETHORPES TRANSPORT’ No. 33. Transbus Dart / Plaxton Mini Pointer on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53322890078_5c6b0a81a5.jpg" alt="CX04 CVF ‘CLEETHORPES TRANSPORT’ No. 33. Transbus Dart / Plaxton Mini Pointer on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk" width="500" height="380" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>JV 9901 ‘Grimsby Corporation Transport’ No. 81.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>AEC Regent 3 / Roe /1</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'JV 9901 ‘Grimsby Corporation Transport’ No. 81. AEC Regent 3 / Roe /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53323119180"><img title="JV 9901 ‘Grimsby Corporation Transport’ No. 81. AEC Regent 3 / Roe /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53323119180_9336013a33.jpg" alt="JV 9901 ‘Grimsby Corporation Transport’ No. 81. AEC Regent 3 / Roe /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="418" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>AEC Regent 3 / Roe /2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'JV 9901 ‘Grimsby Corporation Transport’ No. 81. AEC Regent 3 / Roe /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53323006029"><img title="JV 9901 ‘Grimsby Corporation Transport’ No. 81. AEC Regent 3 / Roe /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53323006029_7e28df7cee.jpg" alt="JV 9901 ‘Grimsby Corporation Transport’ No. 81. AEC Regent 3 / Roe /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="328" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>JV 9901 ‘Grimsby Corporation Transport’ No. 81.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>AEC Regent 3 / Roe /3</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'JV 9901 ‘Grimsby Corporation Transport’ No. 81. AEC Regent 3 / Roe /3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53321786842"><img title="JV 9901 ‘Grimsby Corporation Transport’ No. 81. AEC Regent 3 / Roe /3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53321786842_99f3567976.jpg" alt="JV 9901 ‘Grimsby Corporation Transport’ No. 81. AEC Regent 3 / Roe /3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="475" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Yeates were always known for the amount of chrome trim they could get onto a coach.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It must have added considerably to the all up weight.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">This, by their normal standards, was quite restrained.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>‘Fowlers’ </strong>is a company that, when I last looked, is still with us.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'VBT 191 ‘W. H. Fowler’, Holbeach Drove, Lincolnshire. AEC Reliance / Yeates Europa /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53322659381"><img title="VBT 191 ‘W. H. Fowler’, Holbeach Drove, Lincolnshire. AEC Reliance / Yeates Europa /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53322659381_e83c4fd7b0.jpg" alt="VBT 191 ‘W. H. Fowler’, Holbeach Drove, Lincolnshire. AEC Reliance / Yeates Europa /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="335" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">It is two years since friend Peter Rose and I last visited the GCR.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">A good selection of trains both steam and diesel were running. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">However, our main purpose, now as then, was to see and photograph the entrants in the bus rally held at Quorn & Woodhouse station.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">A fine day initially that turned to rain later did not deter us from having an interesting and enjoyable day.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">The station has ample close by car parking which at £3 per car was cheap.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">The buses gathered in the station yard from where a steady stream of excursions to Loughborough, Leicester and other places of interest ran at no extra cost.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">The Loughborough excursion allowing for visits to both the GCR’s station and Network Rail’s mainline station.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #141414; background-color: #ffffff;">As we have done before, we have combined all the images we gathered on the day. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #141414; background-color: #ffffff;">The credits being joint D.Basford/P.M.Rose.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>FNV 557 ‘ROYAL BLUE TRANSPORT COMPANY LTD.’, Kettering, Northants.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Leyland PS2/3 / Whitson /1</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #094fd1; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #000000;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #094fd1;">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</span></a>’</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">New in 1950.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'FNV 557 ‘ROYAL BLUE TRANSPORT COMPANY LTD.’, Kettering, Northants. Leyland PS2/3 / Whitson /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53318328620"><img title="FNV 557 ‘ROYAL BLUE TRANSPORT COMPANY LTD.’, Kettering, Northants. Leyland PS2/3 / Whitson /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53318328620_96acddf59f.jpg" alt="FNV 557 ‘ROYAL BLUE TRANSPORT COMPANY LTD.’, Kettering, Northants. Leyland PS2/3 / Whitson /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="324" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>FNV 557 ‘ROYAL BLUE TRANSPORT COMPANY LTD.’, Kettering, Northants.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Leyland PS2/3 / Whitson /2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #094fd1; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #000000;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #094fd1;">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</span></a>’</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #094fd1; background-color: #ffffff;"><a title="View 'FNV 557 ‘ROYAL BLUE TRANSPORT COMPANY LTD.’, Kettering, Northants. Leyland PS2/3 / Whitson /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53316993312"><img title="FNV 557 ‘ROYAL BLUE TRANSPORT COMPANY LTD.’, Kettering, Northants. Leyland PS2/3 / Whitson /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53316993312_2efa7f0c02.jpg" alt="FNV 557 ‘ROYAL BLUE TRANSPORT COMPANY LTD.’, Kettering, Northants. Leyland PS2/3 / Whitson /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="335" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>FNV 557 ‘ROYAL BLUE TRANSPORT COMPANY LTD.’, Kettering, Northants.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Leyland PS2/3 / Whitson /3</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #094fd1; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #000000;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #094fd1;">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</span></a>’ </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #094fd1; background-color: #ffffff;"><a title="View 'FNV 557 ‘ROYAL BLUE TRANSPORT COMPANY LTD.’, Kettering, Northants. Leyland PS2/3 / Whitson /3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53317859711"><img title="FNV 557 ‘ROYAL BLUE TRANSPORT COMPANY LTD.’, Kettering, Northants. Leyland PS2/3 / Whitson /3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53317859711_cd9d86e5f3.jpg" alt="FNV 557 ‘ROYAL BLUE TRANSPORT COMPANY LTD.’, Kettering, Northants. Leyland PS2/3 / Whitson /3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="437" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>FNV 557 ‘ROYAL BLUE TRANSPORT COMPANY LTD.’, Kettering, Northants.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Leyland PS2/3 / Whitson /4</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #094fd1; background-color: #ffffff;"><span style="color: #000000;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: #094fd1;">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</span></a>’</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">This image taken through a window shows the style of coach seating (33 of them) fitted.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">The casting supporting the seat has the letter W worked into it no doubt to underline who the coach builder was.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;"><a title="View 'FNV 557 ‘ROYAL BLUE TRANSPORT COMPANY LTD.’, Kettering, Northants. Leyland PS2/3 / Whitson /4 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53317859716"><img title="FNV 557 ‘ROYAL BLUE TRANSPORT COMPANY LTD.’, Kettering, Northants. Leyland PS2/3 / Whitson /4 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53317859716_d4a82515d3.jpg" alt="FNV 557 ‘ROYAL BLUE TRANSPORT COMPANY LTD.’, Kettering, Northants. Leyland PS2/3 / Whitson /4 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="476" border="0" /></a></p>
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on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The village of South Wingfield lies to the West of the town of Alfreton on </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">B6179 linking Derby with Chesterfield and to the East of the village of Crich of ‘Tramway Village’<strong> </strong>fame.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">In 1840, it lay on the new <strong>‘North Midland Railway’</strong> line that linked Derby with Rotherham and eventually Leeds.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The station building, designed by Francis Thompson, is the only one of the thirteen original stations standing in the form in which it was built.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">As such, it is a Grade ll listed building.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I have a small link with the station.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">In the early 1960s, I travelled on the line for some years, usually on a Friday evening on a stopping train from Sheffield to Derby.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Although it stopped at South Wingfield, in all that time I cannot remember anyone alighting from or getting on the train.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I was not at all surprised when it was eventually closed.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Having been closed since 1967, the building has suffered from a combination of the ravages of time and neglect which led to it becoming subject of a compulsory purchase order by ‘Amber Valley District Council’ in 2018.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">In 2019, now owned by ‘Derbyshire Heritage Buildings Trust’, it was announced that it was to be restored with a view to finding new uses for it.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Funding being provided by ‘The National Lottery’.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">So, after over 50 years since it was closed, on Saturday 28th. of October 2023 it was re-opened, and I attended the re-opening event.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>South Wingfield station /1</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Circa 1840.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'South Wingfield station /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53312957332"><img title="South Wingfield station /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53312957332_57f549a3f2.jpg" alt="South Wingfield station /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="374" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>South Wingfield station /2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">An image showing how dilapidated it had become.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'South Wingfield station /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53314297910"><img title="South Wingfield station /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53314297910_e5195d7f0d.jpg" alt="South Wingfield station /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="401" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">This is the first view the intending passenger gets of the ‘refurbished’ station building.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The separate small building on the right was the goods shed.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'South Wingfield station /3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk'' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53314067903"><img title="South Wingfield station /3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk'" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53314067903_7d0f268dd9.jpg" alt="South Wingfield station /3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk'" width="500" height="375" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>South Wingfield station /4</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The restoration has been completed to a very high standard.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'South Wingfield station /4 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53314181289"><img title="South Wingfield station /4 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53314181289_ed777d6a0f.jpg" alt="South Wingfield station /4 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="324" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>South Wingfield station /5</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a> </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I am standing in what was the cattle dock showing the proximity of the rails which are part of the <strong>‘Midland Mainline’</strong>.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">There is no provision for trains to stop, instead they flash past in a few seconds.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The building to my left was the goods shed.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'South Wingfield station /5 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53314297890"><img title="South Wingfield station /5 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53314297890_ea183637df.jpg" alt="South Wingfield station /5 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk" width="500" height="387" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>South Wingfield station /6</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Although the station approach has been covered in a layer of gravel, the setts, which presumably are the original covering, put in an appearance.</p>
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“What sort of bus was it? It was a red one” /1
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">It is two years since friend Peter Rose and I last visited the GCR.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">A good selection of trains both steam and diesel were running. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">However, our main purpose, now as then, was to see and photograph the entrants in the bus rally held at Quorn & Woodhouse station.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">At one time <strong>‘trentbarton’</strong>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.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">The subtitle was a comment from another friend who didn’t know much about buses.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;">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.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>AHE 163 ‘Yorkshire Traction’ No. 725.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Leyland PD1 / Roe /1</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">To anyone connected with public transport in South Yorkshire, ‘YT’ was always, ‘the tracky’ .</p>
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<p><a title="View 'AHE 163 ‘Yorkshire Traction’ No. 725. Leyland PD1 / Roe /1 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53309276830"><img title="AHE 163 ‘Yorkshire Traction’ No. 725. Leyland PD1 / Roe /1 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53309276830_a1a5b9b658.jpg" alt="AHE 163 ‘Yorkshire Traction’ No. 725. Leyland PD1 / Roe /1 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="458" height="500" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>AHE 163 ‘Yorkshire Traction’ No. 725.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Leyland PD1 / Roe /2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>EPW 516K ‘Eastern Counties’ No. RL516.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Bristol RELL6G / Eastern Coach Works</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'EPW 516K ‘Eastern Counties’ No. RL516. Bristol RELL6G / Eastern Coach Works on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53309160224"><img title="EPW 516K ‘Eastern Counties’ No. RL516. Bristol RELL6G / Eastern Coach Works on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53309160224_9939f59947.jpg" alt="EPW 516K ‘Eastern Counties’ No. RL516. Bristol RELL6G / Eastern Coach Works on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="318" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BRM 596 ‘Cumberland Motor Services’ No. 596.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Leyland TD4 / Eastern Coach Works</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The chassis dates from 1934, whilst its original Massey body was replaced with this elegant lowbridge ECW body in 1950.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I think the body sits very well on the Leyland chassis because the radiator is set at a slight angle and not vertical.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">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. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It was only sometime later that I saw the radiator and realised it was a Leyland.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Superbly preserved.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'BRM 596 ‘Cumberland Motor Services’ No. 596. Leyland TD4 / Eastern Coach Works on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53309276815"><img title="BRM 596 ‘Cumberland Motor Services’ No. 596. Leyland TD4 / Eastern Coach Works on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53309276815_fc6172b70e.jpg" alt="BRM 596 ‘Cumberland Motor Services’ No. 596. Leyland TD4 / Eastern Coach Works on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="423" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>E647 DAU ‘Barton Transport’ No. 647.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>DAF MB230 / Plaxton Paramount 4</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I have seen this coach several times over the years and I am always struck by how modern the body looks.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Take the numberplate away and you would never guess that it is 35 years old. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It would not look out of place in any modern fleet.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'E647 DAU ‘Barton Transport’ No. 647. DAF MB230 / Plaxton Paramount 4 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53309051918"><img title="E647 DAU ‘Barton Transport’ No. 647. DAF MB230 / Plaxton Paramount 4 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53309051918_af002e89be.jpg" alt="E647 DAU ‘Barton Transport’ No. 647. DAF MB230 / Plaxton Paramount 4 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="335" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>KGU 284 ‘Barton Transport’ No. 1049.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Leyland 7RT / Park Royal</strong></p>
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<p><a title="View 'KGU 284 ‘Barton Transport’ No. 1049. Leyland 7RT / Park Royal on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53309051928"><img title="KGU 284 ‘Barton Transport’ No. 1049. Leyland 7RT / Park Royal on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53309051928_748d1cb0a1.jpg" alt="KGU 284 ‘Barton Transport’ No. 1049. Leyland 7RT / Park Royal on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="440" border="0" /></a></p>
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‘Go North West’
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>‘Go North West’</strong> is a relatively new company, coming about in 2019 when the <strong>‘Go-Ahead’</strong> group purchased <strong>‘First’</strong> group’s Queens Road depot in Manchester, the services operated from there and the buses operating them.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BG66 MKD ‘Go North West’ No. 3062, MCR.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Volvo B5LH / MCV</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘London Central’</strong> No. MHV36.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'BG66 MKD ‘Go North West’ No. 3062, MCR. Volvo B5LH / MCV on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53304967811"><img title="BG66 MKD ‘Go North West’ No. 3062, MCR. Volvo B5LH / MCV on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53304967811_eaa9faf9a9.jpg" alt="BG66 MKD ‘Go North West’ No. 3062, MCR. Volvo B5LH / MCV on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="383" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Alexander Dennis Ltd. E40D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘First Games Transport’ </strong>No. 33488.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">An organisation set up to operate buses for the Olympic Games of 2012 and the Commonwealth Games of 2014. </p>
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<p><a title="View 'SN14 TTX ‘Go North West’ No. 3106, MCR. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E40D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53304967826"><img title="SN14 TTX ‘Go North West’ No. 3106, MCR. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E40D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53304967826_674e866a9b.jpg" alt="SN14 TTX ‘Go North West’ No. 3106, MCR. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E40D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="405" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>MX58 DXD ‘Go North West’ No. 3241, MCR.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'MX58 DXD ‘Go North West’ No. 3241, MCR. Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53305447920"><img title="MX58 DXD ‘Go North West’ No. 3241, MCR. Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53305447920_1cfcc6b314.jpg" alt="MX58 DXD ‘Go North West’ No. 3241, MCR. Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="368" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BN64 CNV ‘Go North West’ No. 6168, MCR, cross city.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban 2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Go South Coast’ </strong>No. 2291.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'BN64 CNV ‘Go North West’ No. 6168, MCR, cross city. Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53304967806"><img title="BN64 CNV ‘Go North West’ No. 6168, MCR, cross city. Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53304967806_a84b307938.jpg" alt="BN64 CNV ‘Go North West’ No. 6168, MCR, cross city. Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="309" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>SN14 DXJ ‘Go North West’ No. 6001, MCR.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Wright Streetlite D/F</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘First Manchester’</strong> No. 63156.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'SN14 DXJ ‘Go North West’ No. 6001, MCR. Wright Streetlite D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53305214308"><img title="SN14 DXJ ‘Go North West’ No. 6001, MCR. Wright Streetlite D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53305214308_d9197179e0.jpg" alt="SN14 DXJ ‘Go North West’ No. 6001, MCR. Wright Streetlite D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="288" border="0" /></a></p>Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096008070594301638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849803431196120745.post-45558930210961404252023-10-31T19:41:00.001+00:002023-10-31T19:41:52.187+00:00‘Scene’ at Crich Tramway Village, Derbyshire 1
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>40 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Preston McGuire equal wheel bogies / ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The last tram built for Blackpool to what was seen as an old fashioned design but which was urgently required to bolster an ailing, elderly fleet.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New in 1926.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 17px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The sign to the right reads ‘ALL CARS INWARDS STOP HERE’.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 17px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The reason for that is, at this point, all tram crews are required to get passengers to vacate the tram as that particular journey is complete.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The tram then runs to the end of the line, the trolley pole is reversed, the tram loads, then departs over the crossover to the up line where the next journey begins.</p>
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<p><a title="View '40 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’. Preston McGuire equal wheel bogies / ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’ on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53300893268"><img title="40 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’. Preston McGuire equal wheel bogies / ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’ on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53300893268_59ac4f2965.jpg" alt="40 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’. Preston McGuire equal wheel bogies / ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’ on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="372" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>630 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>EMB Hornless equal bogies / Brush & Co. /1</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Most tramway systems opened towards the end of the nineteenth century or the early years of the twentieth.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">By the mid 1930s they were at least looking old fashioned or worse, were worn out.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Many operators gave up tramways for buses both diesel and electric.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Blackpool however elected to modernise and when Walter Luff arrived as general manager in 1933, with the decision already made, he set about updating the fleet and commissioned new single and double deck trams from English Electric.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The streamlined ‘Railcoach’ generation, although the single deck open toppers were known as ‘Boats’.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Pictured on an inbound journey.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New in 1937</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The sign to the right of the tram reads ‘DOWN CARS STOP HERE’. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It is interesting to note that at the top of the information panel, the letters cast into it read ‘SHEFFIELD TRANSPORT DEPT.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Nothing gets wasted at Crich.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The bandstand to the left is often graced by a brass band in summertime.</p>
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<p><a title="View '630 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’. EMB Hornless equal bogies / Brush & Co. /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53301020224"><img title="630 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’. EMB Hornless equal bogies / Brush & Co. /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53301020224_0cf883af33.jpg" alt="630 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’. EMB Hornless equal bogies / Brush & Co. /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="368" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>630 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>EMB Hornless equal bogies / Brush & Co. /2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Now running back up the line.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">To the far right of the image and further up the track stands the Bowes Lyon bridge.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Like much at Crich, it has a history prior to coming here, having once stood at Stagenhoe Park in Hertfordshire.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The width is insufficient for trams to pass side by side so the tracks are interlaced effectively making it briefly single line working.</p>
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<p><a title="View '630 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’. EMB Hornless equal bogies / Brush & Co. /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53299789102"><img title="630 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’. EMB Hornless equal bogies / Brush & Co. /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53299789102_59bfbe195e.jpg" alt="630 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’. EMB Hornless equal bogies / Brush & Co. /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="325" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>236 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>English Electric / English Electric</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">One of the ‘Boats’ new in 1934.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Pictured just entering the depot area. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The running line lies beyond the gates.</p>
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<p><a title="View '236 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’. English Electric / English Electric on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53301127850"><img title="236 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’. English Electric / English Electric on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53301127850_cb556973fb.jpg" alt="236 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’. English Electric / English Electric on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="320" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>249</strong> <strong>‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>English Electric / English Electric</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Another type that appeared in the 1930s.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Known as ‘Balloons’ they seated 94 passengers which was extraordinary for the times.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 17px;"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I have seen them in summertime service when two conductors were required (1 downstairs and the other upstairs) to cope with the numbers of passengers being carried.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Originally built as an open topper, its roof was added in 1941/2 as a result of wartime service in wintertime which required closed top rather than open top trams.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New in 1934.</p>
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<p><a title="View '249 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’. English Electric / English Electric on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53299789132"><img title="249 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’. English Electric / English Electric on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53299789132_fcfd4764ab.jpg" alt="249 ‘Blackpool Corporation Transport’. English Electric / English Electric on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="402" height="500" border="0" /></a></p>Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096008070594301638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849803431196120745.post-76251848717515794902023-10-29T12:25:00.001+00:002023-10-29T12:25:10.368+00:00‘Scene’ Coaching in Derby Bus Station
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">An early start from Derby allowed me a few minutes to catch up with the early departures of the day.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>L29 URG ‘Linburg Touring Sales Ltd.’, Derby, No. 29, megabus.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Working a <strong>‘Stagecoach megabus’</strong> departure on service m45 to London and turned out in the full megabus livery.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">It must be a long lease to justify the cost of the re-paint.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><a title="View 'L29 URG ‘Linburg Touring Sales Ltd.’, Derby, No. 29, megabus. Van Hool TX17 Astron /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53294605744"><img title="L29 URG ‘Linburg Touring Sales Ltd.’, Derby, No. 29, megabus. Van Hool TX17 Astron /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53294605744_fe838e2b5c.jpg" alt="L29 URG ‘Linburg Touring Sales Ltd.’, Derby, No. 29, megabus. Van Hool TX17 Astron /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="349" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>L29 URG ‘Linburg Touring Sales Ltd.’, Derby, No. 29, megabus.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Van Hool TX17 Astron /2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'L29 URG ‘Linburg Touring Sales Ltd.’, Derby, No. 29, megabus. Van Hool TX17 Astron /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53294699200"><img title="L29 URG ‘Linburg Touring Sales Ltd.’, Derby, No. 29, megabus. Van Hool TX17 Astron /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53294699200_5979b615e9.jpg" alt="L29 URG ‘Linburg Touring Sales Ltd.’, Derby, No. 29, megabus. Van Hool TX17 Astron /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="294" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>NH09 SRH ‘Harpurs Coaches’, Derby.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>SETRA Ka S415GT-HD /1</strong> </p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘National Holidays’</strong> who were part of the old <strong>‘Shearings’</strong> group who unfortunately were an early casualty of the Coronavirus pandemic in 2020.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'NH09 SRH ‘Harpurs Coaches’, Derby. SETRA Ka S415GT-HD /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53294231826"><img title="NH09 SRH ‘Harpurs Coaches’, Derby. SETRA Ka S415GT-HD /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53294231826_32968bb45b.jpg" alt="NH09 SRH ‘Harpurs Coaches’, Derby. SETRA Ka S415GT-HD /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="347" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>NH09 SRH ‘Harpurs Coaches’, Derby.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'NH09 SRH ‘Harpurs Coaches’, Derby. SETRA Ka S415GT-HD /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53294231851"><img title="NH09 SRH ‘Harpurs Coaches’, Derby. SETRA Ka S415GT-HD /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53294231851_336afc52e1.jpg" alt="NH09 SRH ‘Harpurs Coaches’, Derby. SETRA Ka S415GT-HD /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="295" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>SIL 9543 ‘Skills Coaches’, Nottingham, the Optimum Experience.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'SIL 9543 ‘Skills Coaches’, Nottingham, the Optimum Experience. VDL FHD2-139 Futura on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53294231806"><img title="SIL 9543 ‘Skills Coaches’, Nottingham, the Optimum Experience. VDL FHD2-139 Futura on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53294231806_a4145d8325.jpg" alt="SIL 9543 ‘Skills Coaches’, Nottingham, the Optimum Experience. VDL FHD2-139 Futura on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="297" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BU18 YTT ‘national express’, Transport Solutions.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'BU18 YTT ‘national express’, Transport Solutions. Mercedes-Benz Tourismo on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53294481378"><img title="BU18 YTT ‘national express’, Transport Solutions. Mercedes-Benz Tourismo on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53294481378_57124741ca.jpg" alt="BU18 YTT ‘national express’, Transport Solutions. Mercedes-Benz Tourismo on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="371" border="0" /></a></p>Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096008070594301638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849803431196120745.post-74115601327204370612023-10-27T19:10:00.001+01:002023-10-27T19:10:58.610+01:00‘Scene’ in Edinburgh Once More 1
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Friend Peter Rose’s love of the Scottish capital continues unabated.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The benefit to the rest of us is a steady supply of interesting images for me to reproduce here where we can all enjoy them.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Of course, they are posted with his consent and my thanks.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>SJ19 OYO ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 1111, Lothiancity </strong><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><strong>1919</strong></span><strong> 100 years </strong><span style="font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal;"><strong>2019.</strong></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Volvo B8L / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400XLB</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a><strong>’</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">These 100 seat buses proved extremely useful during the recent Covid 19 pandemic in keeping passengers socially distanced.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'SJ19 OYO ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 1111, Lothiancity 1919 100 years 2019. Volvo B8L / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400XLB on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53289264792"><img title="SJ19 OYO ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 1111, Lothiancity 1919 100 years 2019. Volvo B8L / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400XLB on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53289264792_9900d3e21e.jpg" alt="SJ19 OYO ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 1111, Lothiancity 1919 100 years 2019. Volvo B8L / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400XLB on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="374" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>SA16 VUN ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 562, poppyscotland.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Volvo B5LH / Wright Eclipse Gemini 3</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'SA16 VUN ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 562, poppyscotland. Volvo B5LH / Wright Eclipse Gemini 3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53290616430"><img title="SA16 VUN ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 562, poppyscotland. Volvo B5LH / Wright Eclipse Gemini 3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53290616430_f8b130a7e6.jpg" alt="SA16 VUN ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 562, poppyscotland. Volvo B5LH / Wright Eclipse Gemini 3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="345" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>SN13 BDF ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 5.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'SN13 BDF ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 5. Volvo 7900 Hybrid / Volvo on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53290519294"><img title="SN13 BDF ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 5. Volvo 7900 Hybrid / Volvo on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53290519294_61139493fd.jpg" alt="SN13 BDF ‘Lothian Buses’ No. 5. Volvo 7900 Hybrid / Volvo on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="360" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>YN68 BBV ‘Borders Buses’ No.11619, The Great Tapestry of Scotland.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Scania N250UD / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400MMC</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Behind the bus, the gentleman sitting astride his horse is the Duke of Wellington.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The horse, named Copenhagen, was his mount at The Battle of Waterloo.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'YN68 BBV ‘Borders Buses’ No.11619, The Great Tapestry of Scotland. Scania N250UD / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400MMC on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53290616425"><img title="YN68 BBV ‘Borders Buses’ No.11619, The Great Tapestry of Scotland. Scania N250UD / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400MMC on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53290616425_62b228b410.jpg" alt="YN68 BBV ‘Borders Buses’ No.11619, The Great Tapestry of Scotland. Scania N250UD / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400MMC on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="315" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Something I mention from time to time, for the benefit of new readers/viewers.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Is that if you were to single click on any image in these blogs, it will take you to my ‘Flickr’ page where the image you have clicked is available to view in a larger format enabling details to be viewed more clearly.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">A visit to the EMA at Castle Donington on the borders of Derbyshire and Leicestershire to see the freight aircraft come and go, has become one of mine and friend John Beastall’s (who, incidentally, supplied all the aircraft details) little pleasures in life.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I like freighters. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">They are often older former passenger airliners that have been converted when their passenger flying days are done.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">That said, there are numbers of new build aircraft joining the ranks.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">If there is a downside, it is the knowledge that much of the freight they bring into the country are goods and products that in years gone by we would have, as a nation, produced for ourselves. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Anyone seeking further details of the aircraft are advised to type the second line details of type and c/n into Google and go to the ‘planespotters.net’ entry.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Luxair’</strong> in February 1992 registered LX-LGF having first flown on 30/01/1992.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'G-NPTX ‘West Atlantic’. Boeing 737-4C9F c/n 25429 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53286404032"><img title="G-NPTX ‘West Atlantic’. Boeing 737-4C9F c/n 25429 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53286404032_818b866525.jpg" alt="G-NPTX ‘West Atlantic’. Boeing 737-4C9F c/n 25429 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="340" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Hapag-Lloyd’</strong> in May 1989 as D-AHLO.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'G-JMCV ‘West Atlantic’. Boeing 737-4K5F c/n 24128 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53287292576"><img title="G-JMCV ‘West Atlantic’. Boeing 737-4K5F c/n 24128 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53287292576_f646c26cbf.jpg" alt="G-JMCV ‘West Atlantic’. Boeing 737-4K5F c/n 24128 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="285" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><a title="View 'N334UP ‘UPS Airlines’ (United Parcel Service). Boeing 767-34AF c/n 34844 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53287759775"><img title="N334UP ‘UPS Airlines’ (United Parcel Service). Boeing 767-34AF c/n 34844 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53287759775_f5e69f9710.jpg" alt="N334UP ‘UPS Airlines’ (United Parcel Service). Boeing 767-34AF c/n 34844 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="282" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><a title="View 'G-OHJK ‘ASL Airlines’. Boeing 737-82RF c/n 35701 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53287292571"><img title="G-OHJK ‘ASL Airlines’. Boeing 737-82RF c/n 35701 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53287292571_4832b3e775.jpg" alt="G-OHJK ‘ASL Airlines’. Boeing 737-82RF c/n 35701 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="262" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">In its ‘<strong>Britannia Airways’ </strong>days, I flew in this aircraft on a return flight from Corfu.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'OY-SRH ‘Maersk Air Cargo / Star Air’ (Denmark). Boeing 767-204ERF c/n 24457 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53286404012"><img title="OY-SRH ‘Maersk Air Cargo / Star Air’ (Denmark). Boeing 767-204ERF c/n 24457 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53286404012_a213b2475e.jpg" alt="OY-SRH ‘Maersk Air Cargo / Star Air’ (Denmark). Boeing 767-204ERF c/n 24457 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="265" border="0" /></a></p>
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‘Diamond Bus West Midlands’ 1
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">A day out train and tram riding in the West Midlands took friend Peter Rose and myself into pastures new recently when the transport delights of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and West Bromwich were explored.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">The bus station in West Bromwich is located across the road from a tram stop on the<strong> ‘West Midlands Metro’ </strong>(Tramway) and is easily accessible from either Birmingham or Wolverhampton.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">In 2016 <strong>‘West Midlands Passenger Transport Executive’</strong> which had controlled transport in the area since 1969 was dissolved following the establishment of the <strong>‘West Midlands Combined Authority’.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">In the fullness of time, their transport arm was established under the name of <strong>‘Transport for West Midlands’.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">This body introduced its own livery using two shades of red with a cream highlight.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">The plan, as I understood it, was to re-paint all the buses into this new livery <strong>no matter who the operator might be </strong>although allowing different operators to use their own fleet names.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">Whilst there are many buses working in this livery, there are also many others working in other liveries.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>BX52 FDC ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 30526, 42 43, West Bromwich | Great Bridge | Tipton.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Flights Hallmark’ </strong>who are a part of<strong> ‘Diamond Bus’.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse /2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'BX52 FDC ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 30526, 42 43, West Bromwich | Great Bridge | Tipton. Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53283123758"><img title="BX52 FDC ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 30526, 42 43, West Bromwich | Great Bridge | Tipton. Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53283123758_3962b4177e.jpg" alt="BX52 FDC ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 30526, 42 43, West Bromwich | Great Bridge | Tipton. Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="285" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>YJ14 CCE ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32136, West Midlands Bus.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>VDL SB200 / Wright Pulsar</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Claribel Coaches’ </strong>whose bus operations became part of <strong>‘Diamond Bus’ </strong>in 2022.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'YJ14 CCE ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32136, West Midlands Bus. VDL SB200 / Wright Pulsar on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53282842611"><img title="YJ14 CCE ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32136, West Midlands Bus. VDL SB200 / Wright Pulsar on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53282842611_c3cd5f9748.jpg" alt="YJ14 CCE ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32136, West Midlands Bus. VDL SB200 / Wright Pulsar on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="330" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BX62 FEU ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 30525, West Midlands Bus.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban 2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Flights Hallmark’ </strong>who are a part of<strong> ‘Diamond Bus’.</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><a title="View 'BX62 FEU ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 30525, West Midlands Bus. Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53283123748"><img title="BX62 FEU ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 30525, West Midlands Bus. Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53283123748_6545b96d0c.jpg" alt="BX62 FEU ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 30525, West Midlands Bus. Volvo B7RLE / Wright Eclipse Urban 2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="296" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>SK17 HHL ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32238, West Midlands Bus.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Wright Streetlite D/F</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Wright’</strong>s as a demonstrator.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'SK17 HHL ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32238, West Midlands Bus. Wright Streetlite D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53283195154"><img title="SK17 HHL ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32238, West Midlands Bus. Wright Streetlite D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53283195154_18e3121369.jpg" alt="SK17 HHL ‘Diamond Bus’ No. 32238, West Midlands Bus. Wright Streetlite D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="340" border="0" /></a></p>Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096008070594301638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849803431196120745.post-46802801032362412392023-10-22T18:47:00.001+01:002023-10-25T08:02:47.964+01:00‘Scene’ since the Seventies
Class 43 HST Power Cars (HST) again
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I believe that the word ‘Iconic’ has become much overused in our language,</p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">being trotted out daily in the media to mark some insignificant event.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I think for something to be truly iconic, it should be meaningful and lasting.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The HST as been just that.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Born out of the necessity for finding something to replace the Advanced Passenger Train which was years before its time. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Now approaching their final days, the class 43s have stood the test of time.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I think that it will live in the collective memory like Sir Nigel Gresley’s A4 or Sir William Stanier’s Black Five before it.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Friend Peter Rose and I have been photographing HSTs for many years and this short series of blogs are our joint tribute to it.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>43144 ‘First Great Western’, BUILDING A GREATER WEST.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Pictured approaching Dawlish station on a London bound service.</p>
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<p><a title="View '43144 ‘First Great Western’, BUILDING A GREATER WEST. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53277781220"><img title="43144 ‘First Great Western’, BUILDING A GREATER WEST. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53277781220_044d92815b.jpg" alt="43144 ‘First Great Western’, BUILDING A GREATER WEST. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="289" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>43307 ‘East Midland Railway’.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Pictured travelling south, approaching Trowell Cross Junction, Derbyshire.</p>
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<p><a title="View '43307 ‘East Midland Railway’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53277599753"><img title="43307 ‘East Midland Railway’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53277599753_bde0338aff.jpg" alt="43307 ‘East Midland Railway’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="311" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>43303 ‘Cross Country’.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Pictured entering Derby station.</p>
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<p><a title="View '16265 43303 ‘Cross Country’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53277781190"><img title="16265 43303 ‘Cross Country’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53277781190_37593d699d.jpg" alt="16265 43303 ‘Cross Country’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="259" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>43185 ‘Great Western Railway’, InterCity.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Pictured entering Westbury station.</p>
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<p><a title="View '43185 ‘Great Western Railway’, InterCity. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53276426502"><img title="43185 ‘Great Western Railway’, InterCity. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53276426502_b1a07cdc58.jpg" alt="43185 ‘Great Western Railway’, InterCity. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="328" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>43194 ‘Great Western Railway’.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The coaches it is hauling are painted in the old <strong>‘First Great Western’ </strong>Dynamic Lights livery.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Pictured entering Newton Abbot station.</p>
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<p><a title="View '43194 ‘Great Western Railway’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53276426507"><img title="43194 ‘Great Western Railway’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53276426507_6f0d2d8957.jpg" alt="43194 ‘Great Western Railway’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk" width="500" height="324" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>43052 ‘EAST MIDLANDS TRAINS’.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Pictured in Nottingham station.</p>
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<p><a title="View '43052 ‘EAST MIDLANDS TRAINS’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53277599748"><img title="43052 ‘EAST MIDLANDS TRAINS’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53277599748_3fafab10e0.jpg" alt="43052 ‘EAST MIDLANDS TRAINS’. BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk" width="500" height="330" border="0" /></a></p>Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096008070594301638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849803431196120745.post-22145434878802887792023-10-20T14:30:00.001+01:002023-10-20T14:36:06.180+01:00‘Scene’ Out and About Once More
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Most of my blogs have some sort of theme or purpose. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">There are, however, times when something just happens to turn up that does not fit any category. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Collectively they are just ‘Bits & Pieces’. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Individually they can be interesting.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">See if there is anything out of these that you like.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>H9 GWY ‘Gwynfor Coaches’, Llangefni, North Wales.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Alexander Dennis Ltd. Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New registered LK08 DXU to <strong>‘Metroline’ </strong>No. TE882.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Image, courtesy friend Stephen Walters.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'H9 GWY ‘Gwynfor Coaches’, Llangefni, North Wales. Alexander Dennis Ltd. Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53272203614"><img title="H9 GWY ‘Gwynfor Coaches’, Llangefni, North Wales. Alexander Dennis Ltd. Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53272203614_9f88fe49b3.jpg" alt="H9 GWY ‘Gwynfor Coaches’, Llangefni, North Wales. Alexander Dennis Ltd. Trident / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro400 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="389" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>FXZ 8495 ‘Henshaws’, Ironville, Derbyshire.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>VDL FHD2-122.365 / VDL</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Quinn’</strong>, Newry, Northern Ireland.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Pictured at <strong>‘Henshaws’</strong> depot at Jacksdale, Notts.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'FXZ 8495 ‘Henshaws’, Ironville, Derbyshire. VDL FHD2-122.365 / VDL on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53272316720"><img title="FXZ 8495 ‘Henshaws’, Ironville, Derbyshire. VDL FHD2-122.365 / VDL on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53272316720_44efbc69bb.jpg" alt="FXZ 8495 ‘Henshaws’, Ironville, Derbyshire. VDL FHD2-122.365 / VDL on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="351" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>SC54 GAS ‘Cawthornes Travel’.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Scania K124EB6 / Irizar Century</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Strafford’</strong>, Coedpoeth, Wrexham, Wales.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The ROTHERHAM OWLS sticker in the windscreen could indicate a <strong>‘Sheffield Wednesday FC’</strong> connection.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Maybe not.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Pictured in Ripley, Derbyshire.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'SC54 GAS ‘Cawthornes Travel’. Scania K124EB6 / Irizar Century on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53272316725"><img title="SC54 GAS ‘Cawthornes Travel’. Scania K124EB6 / Irizar Century on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53272316725_4195b4dee6.jpg" alt="SC54 GAS ‘Cawthornes Travel’. Scania K124EB6 / Irizar Century on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="305" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>AGZ 9365 ‘Littles Travel’, Ilkeston, Derbyshire.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Displaying its then new livery whilst waiting for custom on Ripley Market Place, Derbyshire.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'AGZ 9365 ‘Littles Travel’, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53272316715"><img title="AGZ 9365 ‘Littles Travel’, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53272316715_e6acb6ffa5.jpg" alt="AGZ 9365 ‘Littles Travel’, Ilkeston, Derbyshire. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="283" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>YD63 VDT ‘TMTravel’ No. 833.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Optare Versa V1110</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Pictured departing Bakewell, Derbyshire.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'YD63 VDT ‘TMTravel’ No. 833. Optare Versa V1110 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53272316710"><img title="YD63 VDT ‘TMTravel’ No. 833. Optare Versa V1110 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53272316710_099711741b.jpg" alt="YD63 VDT ‘TMTravel’ No. 833. Optare Versa V1110 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="341" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>MA07 BUS ‘DERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT (TRADING) LTD.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Optare Solo M710SE</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Mott’</strong>, Aylesbury. Bucks.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>‘Star Travel’ </strong>the operator who’s livery this bus wears is also located in Aylesbury and the branding is for their route No.5 in that town.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">The devil as always is in the detail, the legal titling showing that despite the branding it is now based in Ripley, Derbyshire, where this image was taken.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'MA07 BUS ‘DERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT (TRADING) LTD. Optare Solo M710SE on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53272131188"><img title="MA07 BUS ‘DERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT (TRADING) LTD. Optare Solo M710SE on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53272131188_c283b7882f.jpg" alt="MA07 BUS ‘DERBYSHIRE COMMUNITY TRANSPORT (TRADING) LTD. Optare Solo M710SE on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="350" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>EDR 793 ‘Hornsby’s, Barbara.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Bedford OB / Duple Vista</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">A pity somebody left the door open!</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New in 1949 to <strong>‘Pridham’</strong>, Lamerton, Tavistock, Devon.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'EDR 793 ‘Hornsby’s, Barbara. Bedford OB / Duple Vista on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53271845676"><img title="EDR 793 ‘Hornsby’s, Barbara. Bedford OB / Duple Vista on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53271845676_123b98b060.jpg" alt="EDR 793 ‘Hornsby’s, Barbara. Bedford OB / Duple Vista on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="333" border="0" /></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"> </p>Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096008070594301638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849803431196120745.post-52030234770092894462023-10-18T16:57:00.001+01:002023-10-18T16:57:58.053+01:00‘Scene’ at Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum.
‘The South Yorkshire Connection’
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">A day out took friend Peter Rose and myself into pastures new when the transport delights of ‘<strong>Sandtoft Trolleybus Museum’</strong> were explored</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">As we have done before, we have combined all the images we gathered on the day. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">The credits being joint D.Basford/P.M.Rose.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">One of the elements of going to somewhere like a museum where you have an idea what you are going to see is that it is always interesting to see what else just turns up.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>WU02 KVV ‘MAINLINE GROUP LIMITED’ No. 2717, MAINLINE 30th. ANNIVERSARY.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Volvo B7TL / Alexander ALX400 /1</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'WU02 KVV ‘MAINLINE GROUP LIMITED’ No. 2717, MAINLINE 30th. ANNIVERSARY. Volvo B7TL / Alexander ALX400 /1 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53268119900"><img title="WU02 KVV ‘MAINLINE GROUP LIMITED’ No. 2717, MAINLINE 30th. ANNIVERSARY. Volvo B7TL / Alexander ALX400 /1 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53268119900_cf34369bb6.jpg" alt="WU02 KVV ‘MAINLINE GROUP LIMITED’ No. 2717, MAINLINE 30th. ANNIVERSARY. Volvo B7TL / Alexander ALX400 /1 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="401" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Volvo B7TL / Alexander ALX400 /2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><a title="View 'WU02 KVV ‘MAINLINE GROUP LIMITED’ No. 2717, MAINLINE 30th. ANNIVERSARY. Volvo B7TL / Alexander ALX400 /2 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53268119875"><img title="WU02 KVV ‘MAINLINE GROUP LIMITED’ No. 2717, MAINLINE 30th. ANNIVERSARY. Volvo B7TL / Alexander ALX400 /2 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53268119875_f5811bb61d.jpg" alt="WU02 KVV ‘MAINLINE GROUP LIMITED’ No. 2717, MAINLINE 30th. ANNIVERSARY. Volvo B7TL / Alexander ALX400 /2 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="462" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>MDT 222 ‘Doncaster Corporation Transport’ No. 22.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>AEC Regal 3 / Roe /1</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">Peter and I did a local tour on this bus.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'MDT 222 ‘Doncaster Corporation Transport’ No. 22. AEC Regal 3 / Roe /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53267936813"><img title="MDT 222 ‘Doncaster Corporation Transport’ No. 22. AEC Regal 3 / Roe /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53267936813_304448f384.jpg" alt="MDT 222 ‘Doncaster Corporation Transport’ No. 22. AEC Regal 3 / Roe /1 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="352" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>MDT 222 ‘Doncaster Corporation Transport’. No. 22.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>AEC Regal 3 / Roe /2</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'MDT 222 ‘Doncaster Corporation Transport’. No. 22. AEC Regal 3 / Roe /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53268119905"><img title="MDT 222 ‘Doncaster Corporation Transport’. No. 22. AEC Regal 3 / Roe /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53268119905_86434801cc.jpg" alt="MDT 222 ‘Doncaster Corporation Transport’. No. 22. AEC Regal 3 / Roe /2 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="334" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>MDT 222 ‘Doncaster Corporation Transport’. No. 22.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>AEC Regal 3 / Roe /3</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'MDT 222 ‘Doncaster Corporation Transport’. No. 22. AEC Regal 3 / Roe /3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53268119880"><img title="MDT 222 ‘Doncaster Corporation Transport’. No. 22. AEC Regal 3 / Roe /3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53268119880_f4efd99b83.jpg" alt="MDT 222 ‘Doncaster Corporation Transport’. No. 22. AEC Regal 3 / Roe /3 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="347" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>433 MDT ‘Doncaster Transport’ No. 33.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Leyland Tiger Cub / Roe</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p><a title="View '433 MDT ‘Doncaster Transport’ No. 33. Leyland Tiger Cub / Roe on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53268015749"><img title="433 MDT ‘Doncaster Transport’ No. 33. Leyland Tiger Cub / Roe on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53268015749_2b583620bb.jpg" alt="433 MDT ‘Doncaster Transport’ No. 33. Leyland Tiger Cub / Roe on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="379" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>UDT 455F ‘Doncaster Transport’ No. 55.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Leyland Royal Tiger Cub / Roe</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'UDT 455F ‘Doncaster Transport’ No. 55. Leyland Royal Tiger Cub / Roe on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53266770392"><img title="UDT 455F ‘Doncaster Transport’ No. 55. Leyland Royal Tiger Cub / Roe on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53266770392_78a0614e63.jpg" alt="UDT 455F ‘Doncaster Transport’ No. 55. Leyland Royal Tiger Cub / Roe on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="308" border="0" /></a></p>Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096008070594301638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6849803431196120745.post-73844229738147696812023-10-16T16:23:00.001+01:002023-10-16T16:23:57.485+01:00‘Scene’ in Wolverhampton
‘Other Operators’.
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’ <p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">A day out train and tram riding in the West Midlands took friend Peter Rose and myself into pastures new recently when the transport delights of Birmingham, Wolverhampton and West Bromwich were explored.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">As we have done before, we have combined all the images we gathered on the day. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;">The credits being joint D.Basford/P.M.Rose.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>YJ60 LTV ‘Banga Buses’, Wolverhampton.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>Optare Solo M880</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">I don’t know if Banga’s choice of livery has always been blue and yellow but it could, seeing as it is the same colours as the Ukrainian flag, be seen as support for the Ukraine in its current problems with Russia. </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Hatch Green Coaches’</strong>, Hatch Green, Somerset.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'YJ60 LTV ‘Banga Buses’, Wolverhampton. Optare Solo M880 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53263039630"><img title="YJ60 LTV ‘Banga Buses’, Wolverhampton. Optare Solo M880 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53263039630_0d15005bca.jpg" alt="YJ60 LTV ‘Banga Buses’, Wolverhampton. Optare Solo M880 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="293" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica; color: #1a1a1a; background-color: #ffffff;"><strong>YX60 FUE ‘Banga Buses’, Wolverhampton.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s<a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘First Capital’</strong> as No. DMS44424 and then with <strong>‘Go-Ahead London’ </strong>as No. SEN4.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'YX60 FUE ‘Banga Buses’, Wolverhampton. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53262562436"><img title="YX60 FUE ‘Banga Buses’, Wolverhampton. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53262562436_f12aef5b5f.jpg" alt="YX60 FUE ‘Banga Buses’, Wolverhampton. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="383" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>YX61 BYC ‘Banga Buses’, Wolverhampton.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Alexander Dennis Ltd. Dart / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Edwards’</strong>, Llantwit Fardre, Wales.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'YX61 BYC ‘Banga Buses’, Wolverhampton. Alexander Dennis Ltd. Dart / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53263039640"><img title="YX61 BYC ‘Banga Buses’, Wolverhampton. Alexander Dennis Ltd. Dart / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53263039640_443ce4020a.jpg" alt="YX61 BYC ‘Banga Buses’, Wolverhampton. Alexander Dennis Ltd. Dart / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="368" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>EU08 FHD ‘TRAVEL EXPRESS LTD’, Lets Go!.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Alexander Dennis Ltd. Dart / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Olympus’</strong>, Harlow, Essex.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'EU08 FHD ‘TRAVEL EXPRESS LTD’, Lets Go!. Alexander Dennis Ltd. Dart / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53262910909"><img title="EU08 FHD ‘TRAVEL EXPRESS LTD’, Lets Go!. Alexander Dennis Ltd. Dart / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53262910909_671f4b528a.jpg" alt="EU08 FHD ‘TRAVEL EXPRESS LTD’, Lets Go!. Alexander Dennis Ltd. Dart / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="322" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>YX64 VOM ‘TRAVEL EXPRESS LTD’, Lets Go!.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Bevan’</strong> Lydney, Gloucs.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'YX64 VOM ‘TRAVEL EXPRESS LTD’, Lets Go!. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53262854303"><img title="YX64 VOM ‘TRAVEL EXPRESS LTD’, Lets Go!. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53262854303_7d93c153d3.jpg" alt="YX64 VOM ‘TRAVEL EXPRESS LTD’, Lets Go!. Alexander Dennis Ltd. E20D / Alexander Dennis Ltd. Enviro200 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="324" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>SN68 AHT ‘Diamond’ No. 32231.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Wright Streetlite D/F</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’</p>
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<p><a title="View 'SN68 AHT ‘Diamond’ No. 32231. Wright Streetlite D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53263039660"><img title="SN68 AHT ‘Diamond’ No. 32231. Wright Streetlite D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53263039660_0f5f766d03.jpg" alt="SN68 AHT ‘Diamond’ No. 32231. Wright Streetlite D/F on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="299" border="0" /></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>YJ12 PLO ‘arriva’ No. 3698.</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><strong>Optare Versa V1170</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">on Dennis Basford’s <a href="http://railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk">railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk</a>’ </p>
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<p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;">New to <strong>‘Arriva Midlands North’</strong>.</p>
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<p><a title="View 'YJ12 PLO ‘arriva’ No. 3698. Optare Versa V1170 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’' on Flickr.com" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/98620506@N05/53261681797"><img title="YJ12 PLO ‘arriva’ No. 3698. Optare Versa V1170 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/53261681797_05d60e073c.jpg" alt="YJ12 PLO ‘arriva’ No. 3698. Optare Versa V1170 on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’" width="500" height="262" border="0" /></a></p>Dennis Basford's Rails, Roads and Runwayshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07096008070594301638noreply@blogger.com0