When I first got into transport blogging eight years ago, I travelled around my local cities and towns within a 30 mile radius from home gathering images to write and post about.
Bakewell featured in a number of early posts but for whatever reason has not done so in recent times.
A busy town and an important agricultural centre that has developed as a tourist attraction in its own right.
Many of those tourists arrive by bus and coach.
There are terminating services from Derby, Chesterfield and Sheffield. A through service from Buxton to Derby and a wide variety of routes serving local villages.
Coaches come from far and wide.
My favourite spot is just outside the ‘Rutland Arms Hotel’ with buses and coaches coming from three directions. Brilliant!
TM Travel provide the only direct service (No. 218) from Sheffield to Bakewell on a half hourly basis for most of the day.
Alternate buses travel via Chatsworth House.
TM52 BUS ‘TM Travel’ No. 1170. Volvo B7L / East Lancs Nordic
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New registered SA52 DWC to ‘First Glasgow’ as No. VT9
Pictured following YJ14 BTX a ‘trentbarton’ Optare Versa on the ‘6’s service to Derby.
Incidentaly, both buses are owned by the ‘Wellglade’ group of which both ‘TMT’ and ‘tb’ are members.
YN06 JYO ‘TM Travel’ No. 1175. Scania N94UD / East Lancs Omnidekka /1 of 2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘Metrobus’ as No. 927
YN06 JYO ‘TM Travel’ No. 1175. Scania N94UD / East Lancs Omnidekka /2 of 2
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk
FJ03 VWY ‘TM Travel’ No. 631. Scania L94UB/ Wright Solar
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘trentbarton.
FN04 HSZ ‘TM Travel’ No. 653. Scania L94UB/ Wright Solar
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘trentbarton.
FJ55 AAV ‘TM Travel’ No. 676. Scania L94UB/ Wright Solar
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
New to ‘trentbarton.
