(28 Aug 2023, 6:47 pm)stagecoachbusdepot wrote Anyone attend this today?  Popped down for a couple of hours not a great lot there to hang around for and seemed to be the same three or four vehicles doing the bus rides, though they did seem to be running pretty frequently.  Notable absence of 268 and 838 from NEBPT again, haven't seen these in ages (2019 for 838 I think) hope they will return to the rally scene soon.

I went along and arrived just before 2pm. Was impressed with the cars on show but thought the bus display was disappointing this year. There were too many more modern buses there this year and a lack of old former GNE and Busways vehicles. Was hoping to see Metrobuses, Nationals and more Atlanteans etc. In the recent years I've been I've never seen any of these on the Heritage Tour and it's been ages since I caught a ride on them.

Speaking of the bus runs, I saw that the Economic open topper had a plate in the front with "Heritage Tour" but not once did I see it go out in the time I was there. Also the bus runs seemed to end earlier and they seemed to end at 3.30pm. I went out expecting one to turn up for 4pm. Was waiting till around 4.20pm but nothing showed up. I'm sure in previous years they have ran till as late as 4.30pm/5pm. Also there was no timetable on the board at the bus stop giving details of the times the buses were running.

Finally the event was down as running between 10am - 5pm but I saw some vehicles starting to leave around 3pm/3.30pm. When I was driving past the field to head home afterwards the whole field apart from the food vans was cleared and this was quite a bit before 5pm. I'm really not trying to be awkward or a moaner but it would be better to advertise it as 10am -4pm or something with vehicles leaving from 4pm and they should have last admission 3pm. Just a thought.
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