Located at Ruddington, which lies five miles to the South of Nottingham.
It is also home to the ‘Great Central Railway-Nottingham’.
A large site which houses an extensive collection of vintage buses as well as standard gauge and miniature railway vehicles and artefacts.
Originally a station on the ‘Great Central Railway’ extension line that linked Sheffield with London via Nottingham and Leicester.
OVL 473 ‘Lincolnshire Road Car Company Ltd’. No. 2378.
Bristol FS6G Lodekka / Eastern Coach Works
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New in 1960.
334 CRW ‘Coventry Transport’ No. 334.
Daimler CVG6DD / Metro-Cammell
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New in 1963.
When you look at the beautiful Coventry and Birmngham liveries shown in this and the next image you wonder why they had to be lost when the companies became part of ‘West Midlands PTE’.
MOF 90 ‘Birmingham City Transport’ No. 3090.
Guy Arab 4 / Metro-Cammell
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New in 1954.
82 SVO ‘SOUTH NOTTS’ No. 82, Gotham.
Albion Lowlander LR3 / Northern Counties
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New in 1964.
A very rare type.
‘East Midland Motor Services’ had some Alexander bodied Lowlanders which had a more curvaceous body that I used to ride on regularly.
The fibreglass front carrying the LEYLAND legend was developed for that companies PD3 model.
The Albion badge is mounted above the ‘SOUTH NOTTS’ name plate.
‘SOUTH NOTTS’ were eventually taken over by ‘Nottingham City Transport’ with whom they operated as a separate, stand alone unit until as recently as 2021.
SSL 806 ‘London Transport’ No. RM121.
AEC Routemaster / Park Royal
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New registered VLT 121 in 1960.
Now used for promotional work with a company in Nottingham.
