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Sunday 19 April 2015 (0935) - Hardy Street, Worksop alongside the Stagecoach (East Midland) bus garage. 34688 (PX05 EKY), a Plaxton Pointer style Dennis Dart SLF built by Alexander Dennis new May 2005, had just left the garage by the exit on Central Avenue (the road across the background) and run round the block to load in Hardy Street as the 0938 service 21 to Doncaster. The building opened in July 1957 when East Midland Motor Services was owned by British Electric Traction and it acted as both a garage and bus arrival/departure station but In more recent years this activity has been moved to the surrounding streets although in the near future a new bus station will open at Watson Road/Newcastle Street.

Friday 22 July 2016 (1202) – Whippet Coaches WD435 (LK54 LFE), a Wright Eclipse Gemini bodied Volvo B7TL new to Centrewest (London) in September 2004, seen in Newmarket bus station.

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (1159) – Mulleys Motorways CN56 FDU seen passing through Moulton when working the 1120 service 312 from Bury St. Edmunds to Newmarket. It is an Optare Solo new to Bebb Travel of Llantwit Fadre, South Wales in October 2006,

Friday 7 March 2020 (1115) – Andrews Coaches (Miller Brothers Coaches Limited) of Foxton near Cambridge V122 LGC parked in Newmarket bus station. It is an Alexander bodied Volvo B7TL that had been new to London Central (AVL22) in January 2000. The legal lettering reads Millers with an ‘s’.

Thursday 22 April 1993 (0943) - Cedric Garages (Wivenhoe) Limited near Colchester HIL 2644, an Ikarus Blue Danube bodied Volvo B10M, crossing Piccadilly at Piccadilly Circus, London.

May/June 1988 – Brande Buslinier ApS is a company based in central Jutland, Denmark which is now related to the Herning Turist Group. Setra S215HD coach DT 98 883 was seen at the border crossing between Rosenkrantz, Germany and Rudbøl, Denmark. It was new in May 1985.

Sunday 10 February 1991 (approx. 1135) – Three lady passengers are deep in conversation on board Gentle’s Coaches of Ashwell BLJ 715Y as it travelled eastbound on the A11 Barton Mills by-pass. It is a Plaxton Paramount 3200 bodied Ford R1115 new to Excelsior of Bournemouth in April 1983. Chalk Hill forms the backcloth and Red Lodge is over the horizon. Some snow remains here and there in the adjacent fields.

Friday 18 March 1994 - TCRB (Boulogne-sur-Mer, France) 47 (6872 PD 62) seen at the company garage. It was probably a Renault SC10 which had an open rear area in the same style as a small number of Paris buses. (TCRB – Société des Transports en Commune Region Boulonnaise)

Saturday 31 March 2012 (1855) – The last departure from Bury St Edmunds bus station by First Eastern Counties was the 1832 service 81 to the Mildenhall Road and Howard Estates which was worked by Plaxton Pointer bodied Dennis Dart 43435 (P435 NEX) seen here passing West Suffolk College followed by former Eastern Counties Omnibus Company Eastern Coachworks bodied Bristol LL718 (KNG 718) dating from August 1950. The Eastern Counties Road Car Company Limited, an ancestor of FEC, established a base in Bury St Edmunds sometime in the 1920s and the closure ended a presence by the company and its predecessors spanning more than 80 years.

Tuesday 28 August 2012 (1234) – First Eastern Counties Buses 66343 (MV02 VCW), a Wright bodied Volvo B7L new in May 2002 to First Manchester as their 717, seen crossing the bridge over the River Bure between Hoveton and Wroxham bound for Norwich on service 12A. The two communities are set in the heart of the Norfolk Broads where there are several boat building and pleasure craft hire boatyards associated with the leisure trade.

Tuesday 5 June 2012 (1056) - DRM Coaches (D.R. Morris) of Bromyard UK09 DRM, a tri-axle Scania Omnilink new in December 2009 as YR09 GXP, seen at Ledbury (Market House) having arrived on the 1020 service 476 from Hereford. Quite a striking vehicle indeed. The Market House is presumed to have been designed and built in 1617 during the reign of James I by John Abel who was known as the 'Kings Carpenter'.

Wednesday 25 July 2007 – During the busy summer months traffic in the old walled town of Tenby is restricted and Pembrokeshire County Council sponsors two free ‘Park and Ride’ bus services using vehicles. In the summer of 2007 these were operated by the erstwhile Silcox Motor Coach Company which went out of business in 2016. Mercedes-Benz Sprinter S862 BHR was working on ‘Blue route 2’ when seen near Tenby Harbour.

Wednesday 5 May 2004 - Ulsterbus 1616 (JAZ 1616), a 1996 Plaxton Première 320 bodied Volvo B10M-62, was the coach which brought me from the Belfast Ferry terminal to the Europa Buscentre the previous evening and this was the only daylight photo I managed to get of it! This is the view from the end of the Ulsterbus parcels building (vehicles enter the property from the right) which shows the access to Glengall Street bus garage. This is a totally private site bordered by the Northern Ireland Railways line (a train set can just be seen to the right). I think much of the bus station (behind me) had been built on what were once railway tracks and the Boyne Bridge built to carry road traffic over the site. Buses can use a private roadway (busway) to reach Westlink and the M1 Motorway and thus avoid some traffic delays. The height clearance under the bridge to the garage is about 3 feet higher than that for the busway and this has unfortunately resulted in the decapitation of a small number of double deckers in recent times.

Wednesday 5 May 2004 (0955) - Citybus 3102 (DCZ 3102), a Mercedes-Benz 0405GN artic new in March 2000, in Donegall Square West, Belfast by the City Hall.

Wednesday 5 May 2004 - Pausing to let its ‘Trafalgar Tours’ party view Belfast City Hall, was PN02 TJV, a Spanish built Sunsundegui Sideral bodied Volvo operated by John Shaw of Silverdale, Lancashire, England. (Travellers Choice).

Friday 7 October 2016 (1123) – Unō (University of Hertfordshire) Mercedes-Benz Citaro 309 (BV57 VHH) seen by the Church of St. Paul in Bedford. Services C1, C10 and C11 which travel via Cranfield are branded the ‘Cranfield Connect’. New in October 2007.

Friday 19 May 1998 (approx. 1630) - C W Sworder and Sons Limited latterly operated a fleet of mainly school and contract vehicles from its base in the Hertfordshire village of Walkern. Duple Dominant bus bodied Bedford YMT XTW 856S was seen about to enter the Walkern garage after completing a school run. It was new to Runwell Hospital, Wickford, Essex in January 1978. It had been acquired from Sampsons, Hoddesdon during 1993.

March 1998 (approx. 0750) - C W Sworder and Sons Limited latterly operated a fleet of mainly school and contract vehicles from its base in the Hertfordshire village of Walkern. B437 RJU was a Reeve Burgess bodied Dodge G13 new circa 1985 to the United States Air Force which was seen splashing through the ford and general rainwater on Ford Lane as it headed to Aston to start work on school service 889 to the Buntingford schools.