Bus Related Outings and Reviews
Bus Related Outings and Reviews
Had a fantastic day at the Kirkby Stephen Rally today.
Here is a log of what I rode today (although I may have missed some things and I am not good with makes/models etc. so the best I can do is provide the registrations of the buses I have rode today - some have links to photos I have uploaded).
DKC301L
EJR111W
HFR512E
CHH210T
F805FAO
OCS577H (Not 100% if I rode this or not)
JJD443D
R717YWC
E930PBE
That's what I can remember, as I said I'm crap at models so this is all I could come up with.
I would have liked to ride more but there is only so much time and I seemed to focus on getting photos for awhile too so that obviously prevented me from riding more, also towards the end I was being a bit cautious with the time as I wanted to make sure I was back for the bus home for 1630 as its a long way home if I miss it and I don't want to be the person holding everyone up.
Speaking of which, the Stagecarriage Leyland Olympian did provide us a good ride to and from the rally and seemed to perform quite well, overtook an Argos lorry going down the A66, although on the way there just outside Brough on the slip road coming off the A66 it did have a bit of a failure but it got going again.
I had some chips for lunch.
It was lovely and sunny for most of the day in Kirkby Stephen although heading over the A66 on the way there it looked as gloomy as an ITV drama as there was fog and we couldn't see a flaming thing.
Another thing that made the day a bit more fun was I got to ride the train to and from Darlington Railway Station which was a nice change, even nicer change as I got different Northern Rail trains to what I'm used to round my way, they actually looked reasonably nice inside unlike the ones we normally get, although these were running to/from Whitby. The train was 10 minutes late this morning due to over running engineering works (knew something was wrong when I saw the train arrive at Newton Aycliffe Railway Station heading to Bishop Auckland just as I was getting to the station). Got the train home as the bus picked up / dropped off there and because no-one wanted to be off in Bishop Auckland we got back to Darlington earlier JUST in-time for the train back to Newton Aycliffe.
Yeah so a pretty good day today then, I'd recommend going to this rally as it was good fun today.
Thanks for reading
