(18 Sep 2016, 2:47 pm)ukpetey wrote As a lifelong bus fanatic in his early 50's, I have just literally discovered the NEB forum, and am sad to see that I have missed your running day by just two weeks. Never mind, next years event will be in the diary.

I have a love of buses generally, but particularly the Leyland National Mk1's which I can fondly remember being introduced in around 1977 on to the Green Line 721 service in Essex - a service bus I caught each day to school.

I often search google for information on the LN1, and planned  to join the Leyland National Group a few years back, however they appear to have vanished. I was on The Glasgow Vintage Vehicles website today, and from there followed some info about a Bus Rally in Kirkby Stephen - from there I found this site.

As a Bishop Auckland resident, I now discover that I missed your running day last year which was right on my doorstep!! Gutted would be the word! Anyway, I have now found you and registered. I'll certainly be at next year's running day (if there is one) and in the meantime having a good poke around your site. It's good to be here