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How about 530 BPG, the sole Dennis Pelican (with Duple Midland B44(?)F bodywork). Built in 1956 as a competitor to the Leyland Tiger Cub. AEC Reliance, and Guy Arab LUF, it was launched too late against an established competition and didn't attract a single order. The one demonstrator built was...

Maidstone & District SO68 (RKE 540), was the only SARO integral built. And then there was LJW 336, the only example of this SARO body style to built on anything other than a Leyland Tiger Cub chassis - it was built on a "lightweight Guy Arab UF" chassis, a prototype for the Guy Arab LUF (so...

How about the six Gloster-Gardners built by the Gloucester Railway & Carriage Works between 1932-34 - six for Red & White, two for Neath & Cardiff? I was going to suggest the GNR Gardners built by the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) at its Dundalk works between 1937-52, but there were 95 of...

So the purpose of this forum, rather than to discuss things factually and objectively, is to "take a pop" at whatever any of us don't like for whatever reason and use whatever spurious grounds we can contrive to do that? I would have thought that removed any value at all from the forum.

Perhaps the answer can be found in Michael Yelton's Venture Publications "Super Prestige" volume (number 44 in the series) about the operator - Chester, (May 2023).

Was Keighley owned by Keighley & District or leased by them? Keighley bus station, bus depot, and the old tram depot on South Street (latterly used as a store) were owned by Keigley-West Yorkshire Services Ltd until the NBC purchased Keighley corporation's 50% share in November 1973, as part of...

London Northern was the smallest London Buses company, with 320 vehicles. 1100 staff, and an annual scheduled mileage of 10M (next in line was Metroline with 370, 1150, and 11M respectively). However, its annual turnover of £36m was larger than that of Metroline at £33M (these two companies...

My understanding is that when the Interchange was built the bus carriageways were supposed to be sealed by a high-tech membrane to prevent water ingress into the bus garage below, but that the membrane was severely damaged during the surfacing of the carriageways (by movement of...

"Kia Ora" was a Morecambe-based coach operator, whose Huddersfield-Morecambe express passed to Hansons in the 1950s. I've often wondered about the name, which was also the name of an orange mineral drink - seemingly its a Maori expression meaning "have life" (probably where the mineral takes its...

The Ulster Transport Authority was very much anti-railway, having been born out of the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board, and would dearly have liked to close its railway system, but the Benson Report it commissioned in the early 1960s recommended retention of what essentailly became...

Errr . . . to signal a change in culture/draw a line under the past? and specifically in the case of Stagecoach, which of all the post-privatisation groupings was most closely linked with specific individuals in terms of ownership, emphasise that things have moved on.

Belfast Transport Hub, now formally renamed Grand Central, replacing Great Victoria Sreet railway station and Europa Buscentre, is on target for 2025 completion and will also see the closure of Laganside Buscentre (formerly Oxford Street bus station). It will be interesting to see if it remains...

Quite a number here in what is now West Yorkshire. Leeds had two: Leeds City Tramways, and Yorkshire (West Riding) Electric Tramways - which ran in from Wakefield and also shared the Leeds-Rothwell service with Leeds. Bradford enjoyed the services of both the Bradford Tramways & Omnibus Company...

I read - round about the time the contract passed to Transdev - that the airport would not allow double-deckers on site, and that this had been the case when Yorkshire Tiger won the contract . . . no explanation was given, just that the airport authorities had prohibited double-deckers...

Overcrowding can be a problem if a previous service has missed. On several occasions when I've been travelling towards the Airport the bus has been full at the City Square stop, with no room for those wishing to board at the Crowne Plaza or opposite the IBIS/Holiday Inn Express on Kirkstall Road.

John McGinlay, Gortahork, run two services between Co Donegal and Dublin, one of which - the 932 Dublin-Annagry - runs via Aughnacloy, Ballygawley, and Omagh (by-pass), between Monaghan and Lifford, and carries passengers between Northern Ireland and the south. When I used the service from...

Drawlane Ltd was indeed a subsidiary of a company involved in the cleaning business, Salisbury-based Endless Holdings Ltd, but I don't think there was any connection between that privately-owned company and FTSE100-listed Rentokil-Initial PLC. Drawlane Ltd acquired four companies in the NBC...

You don't have to go far from Halifax to find the same sort of thing in Pudsey bus station, and there may still be similar changes in Bradford Interchange.

There were no through trains from Belfast to Bundoran, there were for many years - and revived post WWII - through coaches which were attached to the Dublin-Bundoran Bundoran Express at Clones.

First West Yorkshire X63 Bradford-Huddersfield service pretty much duplicates the old Lancashire & Yorkshire Pickle Bridge line between Halifax and Huddersfield, and follows route of the latter quite closely between Bradford and Brighouse. Transdev Keighley 64 Ilkley-Skipton parallels the old...