(07 Jul 2014, 10:22 pm)GMitchelhill wrote On Sunday I went to the bus rally in Peterborough.
Canny day down at the Peterborough Rally. Although only about 25 buses and coaches attending, it was suprisingly decent. Vehicles were kept busy on the shuttle which included a run of about 2 miles down the A1 Southbound. Also although tired when arriving in Peterborough in the morning, I was wide awake by the time I got to the rally site after travelling upstairs on the open top Lodekka from Stagecoach down Dual carriageways at 40mph.
Vehicles travelled on are as follows (Using some codes).
Codes:
PBS - Peterborough Bus Station
NVR - Wansford Nene Valley Railway Station &
RAL - Rally Site at Sacrewell Farm.
Routes were as follows.
301 - Peterborough Bus Station - Sacrewell Farm (Hourly)
302 - Sacrewell Farm - Wansford NVR - Wansford Village - Sacrewell Farm (Every 15 mins)
303 - Combination of 301/302 and ran at Start and end of Rally.
1 - 303 - PBS to RAL - Bristol Lowdekka / ECW - JAH552D - Stagecoach in Peterborough
2 - 302 - RAL to NVR - Leyland Olympian / ECW - D125FYM - Morley's
3 - 302 - NVR to RAL - Volvo Olympian / Alexander Royale - N125YRW - Diamond Coaches
4 - 302 - RAL to NVR - ADL Enviro 400 - YX63LKE - First Eastern Counties
5 - 302 - NVR to RAL - ADL Enviro 400 - YX63LKE - First Eastern Counties
6 - 302 - RAL to NVR - Leyland Titan PD3 / East Lancs - FTF702F - Dews Coaches
7 - 302 - NVR to RAL - AEC Routemaster / Park Royal - CUV213C - A1 Bus Company
8 - 302 - RAL to NVR - Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini - AD14DBL - Delaine Buses
9 - 302 - NVR to RAL - Volvo B9TL / Wright Eclipse Gemini - AD14DBL - Delaine Buses
10 - 302 - RAL to NVR - Bristol RE / ECW - NBD311F - United Counties
11 - 302 - NVR to RAL - Bristol RE / ECW - GCL349N - Eastern Counties (once ran for Catch a Bus in South Tyneside)
12 - 303 - RAL to PBS - Bristol Lowdekka / ECW - JAH552D - Stagecoach in Peterborough
My next 2 trips both involve West Yorkshire. Followed by a trip to Manchester the week after.
On Tuesday it be a day of catching the Megabus down and back, and using the Metro Day Rover to go around WY. Got no idea what I'm going to do, but tempted to get some more Breadvans in Halifax. But we see how the day progresses.
On Sunday I'm also off to the West Riding running day in Wakefield, should be some good haulage there, with vehicles such as the prototype Leyland Lynx (C920FMP) and rare (for the UK) Renault PR100 expected to attend.
Wish I could go just to Wakefield just to see the Lynx in attendance. What a beast they were back in the day. Did any of the ones up here get preserved? Shame if not...