DSCF4550 Trent Barton (trentbarton) 630 (FJ03 VWW) in Calverton - 11 Sep 2018

Tuesday 11 September 2018 (1239) – Wellglade owned Trent Barton (trentbarton) 630 (FJ03 VWW), a Wright Solar bodied Scania L94UB new in August 2003, seen near St. Wilfred’s Church in Calverton working the ‘Calverton Connection’ service. This service runs every 15 minutes to/from Nottingham operating as an anti-clockwise circular route around the village. Different messages are carried on the rear panels of the buses, this one ‘the friendliest drivers around’.

Until the 1930s Calverton was a small forest village with an economy based on agriculture. In 1937 the first shaft of what would become Calverton Colliery was sunk but it was in the early 1950s that the colliery opened on a much larger scale bringing an expansion of the population as miners and their families came to live in newly built homes. The mine closed in 1999 and Calverton primarily became a commuter village to the city of Nottingham about 7 miles distant. There are pockets of industry around the village including the premises of clothing conglomerate VF Northern Europe Limited.