Yorkshire Coastliner 481 (C481 YWY) in Scarborough – 12 Aug 1994 (235-31)

Friday 12 August 1994 (approx. 0820) - Blazefield owned Yorkshire Coastliner Limited 481 (C481 YWY) travelling out of service along Royal Albert Drive in Scarborough heading to Peasholm Park to work the 0855 service 843 to Leeds. The bus had worked in on the 0720 service from Malton arriving near the Railway Station about 0810. I suspect the bus had deposited all its passengers upon arrival in town and the driver was filling in the layover time with a bit of sightseeing along the seafront!

It was an Eastern Coachworks bodied Leyland Olympian fitted with higher backed semi-coach seating that was new in October 1985 to the West Yorkshire Road Car Company. In September 1987 WYRCC was privatised and the services from Leeds to the Yorkshire Coast that had been branded were branded ‘Yorkshire Coastliner’ passed to a new company with that name - a name and a company which went from strength to strength after privatisation.

From its base in Malton the company continues to operate services from Leeds via Tadcaster, York and Malton to the coastal resorts of Scarborough, Whitby, Filey and Bridlington.

The sea was very choppy here today with the waves crashing in. This part of the seafront is quite notorious for such weather. In the late 1800s the North Bay Pier was built close to this spot but a heavy storm in January 1905 destroyed the whole structure and the pier was not rebuilt.
Later this day a lady had drowned here as she tried to rescue her dog from the sea. The sad irony was that the dog got out of the water alive but after being recovered from the sea by a RAF helicopter the lady had died when they reached the hospital.