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| 308 (RDG 308G) is up for sale. Rosemary and Louise Carr currently own the Roadliner. They have written: "After owning the Daimler for anumber of years it's time to find her a new home. She is a non-runner but very sound. If anyone can help please phone us on 01233 840651." |
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Black & White Motorways, one of the best loved coach companies (and certainly one of the most influential in the development of European long-distance express road travel) now has its own gallery from the start of 2007.
It was closely allied with Bristol Tramways, Midland Red, Royal Blue and Red & White. It was the kingpin of the Associated Motorways network which showed the way that inexpensive coach travel could move people.
It was out of Cheltenham's St Margaret's Road that - at busy times - the 167-coach capacity coach station could turn out 200 or more coaches for the afternoon peak interchange by a bit of jiggery-pokery, and organisational magic by the inspectors.
The bell sounding their "launch", the roar of those engines, the rustle of handkerchiefs, the blue haze and the fluttering of the pigeons into the cast-iron rafters, and the sudden silence as the last motor left, are all now simply distant memories - as is the coach station.
Like others who worked at the station and have since created websites, I hope my pics will bring back a few memories ... and give younger enthusiasts an opportunity to enjoy the excitement public (and staff) felt as the interchange approached its climax.
It was a company that did not cease on a particular day - it just faded into the National Travel fold. That is why you will find both National Travel South West and the successor National Travel West vehicles included ... but not the other constituents like Greenslades and Shamrock & Rambler. They are in my National Express gallery.
From my view point I have ended the gallery with the second vehicle to be numbered 216. |
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| Hits (today): | 196 |
| Hits (this week): | 239 |
| Hits (this month): | 371 |
| Hits (this year): | 8770 |
| Hits (all-time): | 28784 |
| Collections: | 39 |
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| 47 years of bus photography
47 years of coach photography
SHIPPING IN SOUTHERN ENGLAND AND EUROPE
Western National, Southern National and Royal Blue
Bristol Omnibus and Badgerline
Back end of a bus
National Express
Transport postcards of the 20th Century
Crosville
Hants & Dorset / Wilts & Dorset
Arriva Southern Counties in Kent, Medway and Essex
Britain's PTE fleets
Cyprus and Malta Buses
Scottish buses and coaches
NBC in South Wales
Medway - the tidal river, communities, places, ships and scenery
Midland Red & Carlyle Works
THE WORST RAIL PICS EVER
Kent bus scene
Corporation bus fleets of England
London's Buses
National Bus Company (NBC) in England
Three Counties buses - Gloshire, Worcs and Herefordshire
Bus, coach and transport ephemera (stops, stations, logos etc)
Corporation bus fleets of South Wales
Kings Ferry, Gillingham
Road vehicles
Planes - even worse collection than my trains
Flowers and trees, plants, animals and birds
Egyptian Buses and Coaches
Egyptian Holiday, 2006
Watkins - home and away
People and Places
Oxford Bus, City of Oxford, South Midland and Oxford Espress
Continental bus and coach operations
Workingarea
First Group Buses
Stagecoach Across the UK
St George's, HMS Pembroke - Royal Navy memorials
Bus Gallery
Corfu's bus and coach transport, 2008
National Express West Midlands
Lauren is here
Independent bus and coach fleets in Britain
Rebodied buses
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| All pictures are the copyright of Alan O. Watkins, or are (where stated) from the Alan O. Watkins Collection. |
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